yes you did answer my question and i thank you :) I have been using your method and was just looking for other ways (such as the iFrame on that was introduced earlier in this thread).
@Alex Hough, my university actually developed Zotero, and I haven't really thought about trying it out. I signed up for it and haven't given it a try yet. I really wanna try this iFrame method right now though. On Dec 1, 6:42 pm, Måns <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Azurikai > > > P.S I'm running into annoying trouble on linking files and such (my > > professors give me lots of PDF's and such), whats the best way to link > > to these through a dropbox folder? > > I believe I answered your question (or tried to anyway..) in this > thread:http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/37b469... > > If you want to be be OS-agnostic (be able to open a pdf in the browser > on all platforms - not only Windows) > I think you should consider using googles online pdf-viewer for your > dropbox-served pdfs. > Create a tiddler [[PdfView]]. > Copy the online address to your directory containing your pdfs > and write: > <html><iframe src="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http:// > dl.dropbox.com/u/xxxxxxx/$1&embedded=true" width="600" height="780" > style="border: none;"></iframe></html> > > (the seven x's are some numbers) > > Now you can use this as a template to open pdfs from some directory of > yours by writing: > <<tiddler PdfView with: directoryname/pdfname.pdf>> > > If you always use the same directory for your pdfs you might as well > put it in the PdfView template url i.e: > "url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/xxxxxxx/YourPdfDirectory/$1"; > > You might even consider putting it into your ViewTemplate like this: > <span macro="tiddler PdfView with:{{tiddler.title}}"> </span> > and name your pdf-tiddler= PdfName.pdf > > NB: The google pdfviewer needs to serve pdf-files via http, and you > *can* use relative paths to you pdf directories - IF you watch your TW > from your public link - however you loose editing capabilities... > Therefore my advice is to set up your local TW to serve the public > link for your pdfs instead... > > Cheers Måns Mårtensson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
