Hi Xavier,
That's wonderful, thank you. If I may summarize, the brilliant solution is
to make the file itself a shadow tiddler and then transclude it; the
additional step of separating the pdf from the metadata is just good
practice.
Peter
On Friday, May 2, 2014 1:05:48 AM UTC+8, Xavier wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Not sure it's the best way, but with the node.js mode you may want to take
> advantage of decoupling content and metadata. Just move the PDF files into
> a subdirectory of tiddlers/ and create a .meta file from each PDF
> filename, that you can then transclude in a tiddler that is easier to
> handle. Like so:
>
> x2:server xavier$ ls tiddlers/invoices/
> April 2014 invoice.tid Invoice from supplier X.pdf.meta
> Invoice from supplier X.pdf
> x2:server xavier$ cat tiddlers/invoices/Invoice\ from\ supplier\ X.pdf.meta
> title: $:/mypdfs/invoices/201404
> type: application/pdf
>
> x2:server xavier$ cat tiddlers/invoices/April\ 2014\ invoice.tid
> created: 20140501163534829
> modified: 20140501163640138
> tags: [[pdf invoices]] due
> title: April 2014 invoice
> type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki
>
> {{$:/mypdfs/invoices/201404}}
>
> x2:server xavier$
>
> Granted, it involves 3 files for each PDF, but it can certainly be
> scripted if you have a lot of pdfs.
>
> Xavier Cazin.
>
> -- Xavier Cazin
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Peter Smillie <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using TW5 with node.js. So far, I have been dragging and dropping
>> PDFs to create appliation/pdf tiddlers. The issue with these is that they
>> are slow to load into 'edit' mode, since they load a huge text file of
>> gibberish. This is a problem mainly when I'm trying to add a tag.
>>
>> It seems like there could be a lot of solutions for this; my favorite
>> would be to link to pdf files using something like [img[photo.jpg]]. But I
>> also wouldn't mind either A) a way to tag tiddlers without clicking 'edit'
>> or B) a way to edit application/pdf tiddlers without opening the entire
>> contents of the tiddler.
>>
>> I would grateful for any tips!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>>
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