Displaying PDF In Our Website

Displaying PDF In Our Website

Ingredients:

• flexpaper
• swftools
• Some PDF files you want to publish

Download both software

# yum -y install swftools
# wget http://flexpaper.googlecode.com/files/FlexPaper_1.3.1_flash.zip

Go to http DocumentRoot, then unzip FlexPaper_1.3.1_flash.zip

# cd /var/www/html/
# unzip /path/to/FlexPaper_1.3.1_flash.zip

There’s example in FlexPaper_1.3.1_flash.zip distribution, We need to create our own swf file from existing pdf

# pdf2swf DNSSEC_in_6_minutes.pdf -o DNSSEC_in_6_minutes.swf -T 9 -f

Lots of NOTICE output there…

NOTICE  Adding /usr/share/swftools/fonts to font directories
Title:        Slide 1
Author:       Alan Clegg
Creator:      Impress
Producer:     OpenOffice.org 2.4
CreationDate: 20080715091448-04'00'
Pages:        79
Linearized:   no
Encrypted:    no
NOTICE  processing PDF page 1 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  file contains jpeg pictures
NOTICE  file contains pbm pictures 
NOTICE  processing PDF page 2 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 3 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  File contains links
NOTICE  processing PDF page 4 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 5 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 6 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 7 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 8 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 9 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 10 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 11 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 12 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 13 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 14 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 15 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
NOTICE  processing PDF page 16 (720x540:0:0) (move:0:0)
--- cut ---
NOTICE  SWF written

Edit FlexPaperViewer.html file, find line containt:

SwfFile : escape("Paper.swf"),

Change to:

SwfFile : escape("DNSSEC_in_6_minutes.swf"),

Now we’re ready to go, point your browser to http://your.domain/FlexPaperViewer.html

I’f nothing goes wrong we’ll see nice PDF reader on our website 🙂

that’s it