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I am a C/C++ programmer -prefer C, 30 yrs experience, recently
retired. I want to create a website to allow the user to scroll a
pdf and another panel to download my source files, (.c , .h , makefile). i have no experience in the web presentation layer now. It seems most developers want to simply solve the problem on the user (browser) end. The link below is to a forum entry where this person wants to use php but the browser does the work of presentation of the pdf. Some browsers do this and some don't. Chrome is good. Firefox is not ... and the second tier strategy is for the user to download the pdf to the users machine and let him worry about presentation. I need to learn php now. The better way, I think, is to re-code evince as .php so that I could execute it on the server side and control the presentation. If the web host would allow me to execute evince on his web server, then that would be really good, but I don't think they would allow that, Maybe the web host machine was running linux and had evince around anyway maybe but I can't find such a shop. I know unix and C very well on as professional level and at home now I am running Linux mint 13 with MATE desktop. (I like evince!) If evince was open source, I could learn php and convert enough of it to php to render the pdf document in a server side window. There might be enough technical presenters like me to cobble up a system with pdf window on the right, and ftp file down menu to the left, and maybe as blog comment section at the bottom. Is php the proper tool? (What about _javascript_- or even java?) From my limited reading so far, php seems like it would handle the presentation window best. Do you have a favorite php book? If this whole thing comes to fruition, it could be donated to gnome because other technical writers good with latex and C and not so good with exposing the thing to the web might be interested. The user comment section at the bottom would provide an interconnected network of similar presentations and relevant comment. Any advice on this matter would be warmly appreciated. //ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/230033/#1042404 \begin{scriptsize} \begin{verbatim} <object data="" type="application/pdf" width="900" height="800"> <!-- support older browsers --> <embed src="" type="application/pdf" width="900" height="800"/> <!-- For those without native support, no pdf plugin, or no js --> <p>It appears you do not have PDF support in this web browser. <a href="" target="_blank">Click here to download the document.</a> </p> </object> |