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1. mdowns | Member

   3 months ago # | |

   Two Questions/Comments about how to use PDF documents in an Omeka installation.

   1) On the individual item pages, I don't really like the way that the default setting ust puts it as a little tiny link at the bottom of the page. I installed the pdfmenot, but it significant limits the quality of the document.

   2) I have created exhibits, but when I try to put the pdf's on there, they do not show up. Instead of any document, I simply get little gray squares where there are supposed to be pdf files. In other exhibits, I images which work just fine. What can we do?

   Thanks for your help!

2. SheilaBrennan | Administrator

   3 months ago # | |

   Hi mdowns,

   Have you modified your items/show page in the design theme files to view the documents on your public site?

   In case you haven't seen them, there are instructions in our How To section:

   http://omeka.org/codex/IPaper_plugin
   http://omeka.org/codex/PdfMeNot_plugin

   As for exhibits, unfortunately the exhibit builder is not equipped with a document viewer, like you can use in the archive. Images will appear in your exhibits, but Omeka does not create thumbnail previews of PDFs.

   Hope this helps,
   Sheila

3. patrickgmj | Member

   3 months ago # | |

   One work-around that I did for this issue is to go into the ExhibitFunctions.php file and add some code to exhibit_thumbnail so that, if there is no content inside the tag (which is what happens with pdfs), it adds something like "Link to item", so at least a link to the item shows up.

   I was wondering, though, if there's a way to look up the Dublin core info for the item to make that link text more precise. Basically, is there a method on the $item that let's me grab dcterms:format info?

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