Create PDF and Reader Open Parameters

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Re: [gkornbluth] Create PDF and Reader Open Parameters

By Jason - March 25, 2011

Hi Jerry,

Just to clarify what you're trying to do. You have a page that displays with a black background with white text. You want to convert this into a pdf that uses a white background with black text.

Is that right? Let me know and I can send you some steps to try.

Thanks
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Re: [Jason] Create PDF and Reader Open Parameters

Hi jason,

Thanks for the reply.

I'm already accomplishing the steps you outlined, but I can't figure out how to pass reader parameters along.

My two questions are...

1) how can I pass the properties to the PDF reader as I was doing in the example above,

2) Is there a more elegant way to accomplish the whole task...

IE:convert to white BG, Black text, pass the parameters to the reader that make it open dependably at 100%

Thanks,

Jerry
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Re: [gkornbluth] Create PDF and Reader Open Parameters

By Jason - March 28, 2011

Hi Jerry,

I've never worked with the parameters you're showing. Could you provide us with a link that shows these parameters working? Could you also provide us with a link to your current page so we can see what's happening on your page vs a working example?

If you don't want to post links in the forum, you can email them to support@interactivetools.com

Hope this helps
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Re: [Jason] Create PDF and Reader Open Parameters

Hi Jason,

Thanks for looking at this.

Here’s a link to a working example using some of the parameters:

http://50.6.159.105/about.php

Here’s the link to the page using the code above, but without the parameters added.
http://www.elleschorrphotography.com/exhibitions.php

And here’s a link to Adobe’s PDF on parameters that can be passed to a PDF reader (using some of those parameters).
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters_v9.pdf#zoom=100&pagemode=none

If you need anything else, please let me know.

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] Create PDF and Reader Open Parameters

By Damon - March 29, 2011

Hi Jerry,

I'm getting inconsistent results. I might vary from browser to browser and also with what version of Acrobat is installed?

Also, I tried changing the zoom variable to 200 in the URL and reloading with no effect:
http://50.6.159.105/about.php?pdf=1&1#toolbar=1&navpanes=1&scrollbar=1&zoom=200

But I was able to change the zoom to 200 here and it worked:
http://www.elleschorrphotography.com/exhibitions2.php?pdf=1&1#toolbar=1&navpanes=1&scrollbar=1&zoom=200

Can you just add the parameters you want to the PDF link?
That seems like it should work.
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Re: [Damon] Create PDF and Reader Open Parameters

Damon,

Thanks for your suggestion but I’m more lost than ever.

As I mentioned in the first post in this thread, I can get the added parameters to set the opening style of the reader in the output_as_inline_pdf implementation by simply appending them to the createPDF call. The problem comes in with the url_as_inline_pdf code.

Based on your suggestion, I thought that I could create a field called pdf_parameters, use that in a variable ($addon, and append that variable to the url that’s created. The test value I used for pdf_parameters was #toolbar=1&navpanes=1&scrollbar=1&zoom=185, expecting that on success, the reader would open at 185% zoom.

I tried changing the original url_as_inline_pdf createPDF call:

<?php
$url = "http://www.elleschorrphotography.com/exhibitions3.php";
$data = createPDF_fromUrl($url);
createPDF_display('inline', $data, 'example.pdf');
?>


To this:

<?php
$url = "http://www.elleschorrphotography.com/exhibitions3.php"; ?>
<?php $addon = $common_informationRecord['pdf_parameters'] ;
$data = createPDF_fromUrl($url);
createPDF_display('inline',$data . $addon, 'example.pdf');
?>


That didn’t work, so also tried this:

<?php
$url = "http://www.elleschorrphotography.com/exhibitions3.php"; ?>
<?php $addon = $common_informationRecord['pdf_parameters'] ;
$data = createPDF_fromUrl($url);
createPDF_display('inline',$data, 'example.pdf . $addon');
?>


And this:

<?php
$url = "http://www.elleschorrphotography.com/exhibitions3.php"; ?>
<?php $addon = $common_informationRecord['pdf_parameters'] ;
$data = createPDF_fromUrl($url . $addon);
createPDF_display('inline',$data, 'example.pdf');
?>


Since in each case when the PDF was created the zoom was never set to 185, and I don’t know how to show the URL that’s actually being passed to the plugin, I’m lost as to how to proceed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] Create PDF and Reader Open Parameters

By robin - March 30, 2011

Hey Jerry,

I think you were closest with the 2nd last example. Here is a suggested change:
<?php
$url = "http://www.elleschorrphotography.com/exhibitions3.php"; ?>
<?php $addon = $common_informationRecord['pdf_parameters'] ;
$data = createPDF_fromUrl($url);
createPDF_display('inline',$data, 'example.pdf' . $addon);
?>


Damon and I were testing with pdf parameters and as he said it is inconsistent between browsers, but hopefully you have some success with the above change.

Good luck!
Robin
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Re: [robin] Create PDF and Reader Open Parameters

Thanks guys,

I'll give it a try.

Jerry
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Re: [robin] Create PDF and Reader Open Parameters

By gkornbluth - March 30, 2011 - edited: March 31, 2011

Thanks Damon and Robin,

I must be doing something wrong, because no matter what I put into the pdf_parameter field (even gibberish) it has no effect on the resulting PDF.

I'm guessing that nothing is actually being appended to the URL passed to the createPDF plugin, but I don't know how to test what the actual value of the url + $addon is.

Any suggestions how to test the actual URL+?

BTW, I'm no longer using a proxy server. One less possible complication.

Thanks,

Jerry
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