[Product-Developers] Shoutout to Nathan Van Gheem for collective.documentviewer

Raphael Ritz raphael.ritz at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 11:37:27 UTC 2012


On 4/23/12 10:04 AM, Dylan Jay wrote:
> On 23/04/2012, at 3:23 PM, Jon Stahl wrote:
>
>> I just wanted to give Nathan Van Gheem a public, on-the-record
>> shoutout for the stone cold awesomeness that is
>> collective.documentviewer.
>>
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.documentviewer/
>>
>> If you have a Plone site with PDFs (or lots of Word or Powerpoint
>> files) in it, then you owe it to yourself to check this out. It
>> integrates the *astounding* pure-javascript document viewer from
>> DocumentCloud (http://documentcloud.org)--used by the New York Times
>> and hundreds of other media outlets--into Plone, along with
>> async-enabled document conversion and OCR.
>>
>> Seriously, this is kick-ass stuff. I couldn't imagine doing an
>> intranet or document library project without it from now on.*
>
> Hi,
>
> It's not obvious from the pypi page how configurable the viewer is. One
> requirement we have is a two page book style layout for brochure type
> documents. Does anyone know if this or something similar can do that?

Have you seen http://packages.python.org/zopyx.smartprintng.plone/ ?
Not sure it supports that OOTB but it seems to be highly configurable.

Raphael

>
>>
>> Thanks, Nathan!
>>
>> :jon
>>
>> *Full disclosure: I've not used it in production. Yet.
>> ---
>> Jon Stahl
>> http://jstahl.org
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