Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-11 Thread Mark H. Wood
Would it seem ungrateful if I suggest that the first thing we need is some more descriptive terms? Because to me, document viewer is so generic as to be nearly meaningless. o xdvi is a document viewer o mplayer is a document viewer o GPhoto is a document viewer o Audacious is a document

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-11 Thread helix84
I looked at several Fedora Commons instances and some have a nice PDF reader displaying individual pages and navigation, which also has a zoom option. Is this a standard part of FC? Could this be easily used in DSpace? Regards, ~~helix84

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-11 Thread Tim Donohue
helix84, Fedora Commons is more of a flexible repository architecture than an out-of-the-box repository application. As such, it doesn't come with a standard user interface solution. That's the main difference between a system like DSpace and one like Fedora. However, there are several

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-11 Thread helix84
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 17:16, Tim Donohue tdono...@duraspace.org wrote: Fedora Commons is more of a flexible repository architecture than an out-of-the-box repository application. As such, it doesn't come with a standard user interface solution. That's the main difference between a system

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-10 Thread Rajat Gupta
: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality To: Mark H. Wood mw...@iupui.edu, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: a58dc16442384b4c956d43e6ed570cc135a8eed...@um-email05.um.umsystem.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 01:41:32PM -0600, Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote: I guess I don't understand the problem. I thought we called that a web browser. It either says, oh, I know how to show that and does it, or ah, you use Adobe Reader/OpenOffice/VLC/JMol/whatever for those, I'll fire it

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-06 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
the objects into smaller parts (the traditional page turning approach employed by digital libraries). --Hardy -Original Message- From: Mark H. Wood [mailto:mw...@iupui.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 11:37 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Online

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
I guess I don't understand the problem. I thought we called that a web browser. It either says, oh, I know how to show that and does it, or ah, you use Adobe Reader/OpenOffice/VLC/JMol/whatever for those, I'll fire it up. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Balance your

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-04 Thread Tim Donohue
Hi Anil, Unfortunately, at this point in time DSpace does not have an online document viewer out-of-the-box. I agree it sounds like it could be a useful feature. However, we'd need to find an interested volunteer developer or two to investigate existing document viewer software that is out

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-04 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality Hi Anil, Unfortunately, at this point in time DSpace does not have an online document viewer out-of-the-box. I agree it sounds like it could be a useful feature. However, we'd need to find an interested volunteer developer or two

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-04 Thread Wally Grotophorst
derivative Flash? Is that an improvement on all stuff that's wrong with regular Flash :) - Wally Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote: Our approach is to use the xmoovStream pseudo-streaming server [1], creating derivative Flash versions of already archived PDF files using pdf2swf [2], and the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-04 Thread Mark Diggory
://stream.xmoov.com/ [2] http://www.swftools.org/ [3] http://flexpaper.devaldi.com/ --Hardy -Original Message- From: Tim Donohue [mailto:tdono...@duraspace.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:51 AM To: Anil Sukhwani Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Online

Re: [Dspace-tech] Online Document Viewer Functionality

2011-01-04 Thread Fabio N. Kepler
Hi Anil, We run DSpace 1.6.2 at the Brasiliana Digital Library ( http://www.brasiliana.usp.br/bbd). Having mainly PDF documents (and some JPEG images), we sought out some way to allow the user to view the documents without having to download them, specially because our PDFs can get quite large