it wasn't a time out issue... it was an issue with teh size of the iFrame...
the original code set the preview iFrame to be height='342px' I changed it to be 830px and lo and behold... preview pages... so my issues seem to be resolved. thanks to those, on and off list, who have been looking into this for me. Fred Edwards Systems Technician Patrick Power Library Saint Mary's University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3 Phone: (902) 420-5096 Fax: (902) 420-5561 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.smu.ca/library/ -- On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Fred Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > now I'm kinda wondering if it is a time-out issue somewhere... > > > > > Fred Edwards > > Systems Technician > Patrick Power Library > Saint Mary's University > Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3 > > Phone: (902) 420-5096 > Fax: (902) 420-5561 > E-mail: [email protected] > Website: http://www.smu.ca/library/ > > -- > > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Jason Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If it doesn’t like the spaces, you could just change the filenames and >> reupload the bitstreams. I try to never use spaces in filenames because *nix >> based systems hate them. >> >> >> >> If you have high res images in the PDF, Google struggles with it. Still, >> you can put some image only stuff in there. For example, here’s a pdf of a >> MSS we have in our repository. >> >> >> >> >> http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigital.library.sbts.edu%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10392%2F226%2FFreedomInPreaching.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* Fred Edwards [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Thursday, May 13, 2010 8:27 AM >> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [Dspace-tech] PDF viever >> >> >> >> >> it seems its a little more insidious than that... >> >> what I was experiencing first seems to indicate that the viewer isn't >> happy with PDFs that have spaces in the file name... >> >> now, secondly, a working URL and PDF (one with no spaces in the file name) >> will properly display when directly browsed to... ie. grab the URL from the >> page source that the viewer is supposed to use... copy and paste to the >> address bar... and google will display the PDF no problem... >> >> however, within the embedded iframe that same PDF will only be "somewhat" >> loaded... the pages all display an icon for a broken image and not the PDF >> pages... >> >> erk >> >> >> Fred Edwards >> >> Systems Technician >> Patrick Power Library >> Saint Mary's University >> Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3 >> >> Phone: (902) 420-5096 >> Fax: (902) 420-5561 >> E-mail: [email protected] >> Website: http://www.smu.ca/library/ >> >> -- >> >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Jason Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Two thoughts. >> >> First, are there any bitstream restrictions that would allow you to browse >> to the URL but would not allow Google's servers to access it? >> >> Second, try manually entering the URL into this form ( >> http://docs.google.com/viewer?pli=1) only omit the sequence section from >> the end of the URL. See if that makes a difference. >> >> >> Jason Fowler, CA, MSLS >> Archives and Special Collections Librarian >> The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary >> Vice President, ALABI >> [email protected] >> ________________________________________ >> >> From: Fred Edwards [[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 2:48 PM >> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] PDF viever >> >> any idea how to debug this? >> >> everything "appears" fine, however the viewer doesn't seem to grab the >> PDF... >> >> I can browse to the URL generated by the script and see the PDF, so the >> URL handed to Google is fine as well... >> >> does the viewer have a problem with using a port besides port 80? >> >> >> >> Fred Edwards >> >> Systems Technician >> Patrick Power Library >> Saint Mary's University >> Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3 >> >> Phone: (902) 420-5096 >> Fax: (902) 420-5561 >> >> E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> >> Website: http://www.smu.ca/library/ >> >> -- >> >> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Peter Dietz <[email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> I was working on XMLUI today, and implemented the document preview for >> XMLUI. I also added the howto on that to the documentation for Document >> Preview, >> >> http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/Document+Preview+with+Google+Docs+viewer >> >> < >> http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/Document+Preview+with+Google+Docs+viewer>I >> imagine this might be helpful. >> >> >> -- >> I didn't update the instructions for jspui. >> >> >> Peter Dietz >> Systems Developer/Engineer >> Ohio State University Libraries >> >> >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Lewatle Phaladi < >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Hi Jason >> >> Thanks for the reply. >> Please explain the process step by step in most easiest way, I tried the >> one I found on the net but with no good results. >> >> Regards, >> Lewatle >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Jason Fowler [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] >> Sent: 23 April 2010 03:21 PM >> >> To: [email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] PDF viever >> >> That should be pretty easy in XMLUI using something like Google's >> viewer, especially if you have no collections that need to be >> authenticated. You should be able to simply make changes to your >> theme.xsl file to enable it (and perhaps messages.xml). No java coding >> would be necessary using this method. >> >> You could do something very similar to what I have explained here for >> the inclusion of the video tag for HTML5 pseudo streaming. >> >> http://neoarch.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/using-the-html-5-video-tag-in-ds >> pace/<http://neoarch.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/using-the-html-5-video-tag-in-ds%0Apace/> >> >> Instead of embedding the video tag, you would put in code to embed the >> viewer. >> >> I am in a bit of a hurry now. 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