We spend lots of dough each year converting material from our dead-tree editions into web-friendlier versions for our web sites. We crank out a bunch of PDFs, and send them through the ether to somewhere where the labor is cheap and the workday long, like Vietnam, Indonesia or Canada or something. Then some poor soul slices 'n dices them into jpegs and links and such, and sends 'em on back, and posts them on our site.
So I thought to myself, "Self, you can do that without having to do something silly like use people and worse, pay for it.
It's a work in progress, but it goes something like...
Shazaam! $35k saved.
Not to mention, jquery almost makes coding javascript fun. Almost.
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grega (not verified)
Mon, 09/21/2009 - 11:04am
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hello,can you post the code
hello,can you post the code of this cool pdf viewer or it is private?
Christian
Mon, 09/21/2009 - 8:44pm
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The PDF has actually been
The PDF has actually been converted to a SWF (Flash) file with swftools, an open-source toolkit.
Javascript is used to wire up the zooming and panning functions. You can view source on this page to get the code, if you want.