Dear Springer. Is your method also applicable for pdf's hosted in Google Drive. When I go to the "Get Link" section, I get a long link. However, TW doesnt recognize this as a pdf when I follow your steps. Is there a different steps for files hosted on Google Drive? Regards Manish On Tuesday, 14 January, 2020 at 12:16:37 am UTC+5:30 springer wrote:
> Chuck, and Nic, > > I *can* see PDFs in my TW5, though I haven't tried to get any kind of > thumbnail function. > > I host my PDFs on dropbox, and use dropbox to "copy a public link" for the > PDF. > > Then I create a tiddler, titled however I like. At the bottom of editor > interface, add a new field called > _canonical_uri > > (Note that's an i, not an l). Paste your file's url link in the space to > the right and click the button to "add" the field. > > Then go select from the "Type" menu (right below edit box): > "application/pdf" > > When you return to view mode, the result is a little PDF viewer box, much > like you see on other websites that host PDFs. > > Cheers. > > -Springer > > > On Monday, January 13, 2020 at 11:20:42 AM UTC-5, Chuck R. wrote: >> >> >> 1. Download TW5 to your local hard drive here: >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted >> 2. Choose a method of saving the file locally or to Tiddlywiki or on >> some other server. Get that set up somehow. I use Tiddlyspot with Chrome, >> Tiddlyspot does not seem to work well with Firefox as FF always wants to >> save the file locally. >> 3. Start playing around with features of TW. >> 4. I am able to store a PDF on a TW5 but cannot read it inside TW5. I >> just see a blank tiddler. >> 5. For EPUB files I'm able to drag and drop an EPUB file on to TW5, >> but the tiddler that contains the EPUB now only says "Tiddler contains >> binary data". I cannot view it inside the TW5 and I'm unsure how to >> export >> an EPUB from TW5. >> 6. For PDFs you will probably have to take a screen shot of the page >> you want to view in TW5 and show that image. Just drag and drop the image >> to TW5. Images are well supported. Then you insert the image into another >> tiddler which contains a table. >> 7. TW5 has its own wiki language, it is not media wiki. TW5 supports >> Markdown but then you lose a lot of TW5 features by using markdown. >> That's >> why I converted about 20 tiddlers from markdown to TW5. >> 8. Info on TW5 tables is here: >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Tables%20in%20WikiText >> 9. To download your CURRENT version of your TW5 from Tidddlyspot go >> to YOURWIKI.tiddlyspot.com/download. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b60cce43-7770-443b-8675-801841ddf29cn%40googlegroups.com.
