What I do is include the pdf file in a framed window using a transcluded template and to make it searchable, I include the text from the pdf file compressed into a metafile comment block of text. Inside <--! and -->. My tiddlywiki has over 1000 tiddlers and still is small enough to be fast.
Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G TouchXavier Cazin <[email protected]> wrote:Hi Peter, This was to be expected, I'm afraid :-) You might try to add -[type[application/pdf]] to the saveTiddlerFilter() macro of $:/core/save/lazy-images, but I don't think there is a reasonable workaround today, other than opening the resource file outside Tiddlywiki, for instance from a file:// href. Regards, XC. -- Xavier Cazin On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Peter Smillie <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks again Xavier for the solution. I have two almost-related follow-up questions. One, I'm having no trouble with small one- or two-page pdfs, but trying to open a 2 MB 6-page pdf crashes my browser immediately (Chrome gives me "Aw snap!"). Is that to be expected? Is there a fix? Two, it seems to me that lazy image loading has no effect on pdfs - is there a tweak to make pdfs load lazily as well? Thanks, Peter On Friday, May 2, 2014 2:49:14 AM UTC+8, Xavier wrote: Hi Peter, I think maintaining a metadata file in this case is a bit more than good practice, because you also want to control the mimetype so that browsers know what you're actually transcluding. Best, Xavier. -- Xavier Cazin On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Peter Smillie <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Xavier, That's wonderful, thank you. If I may summarize, the brilliant solution is to make the file itself a shadow tiddler and then transclude it; the additional step of separating the pdf from the metadata is just good practice. Peter On Friday, May 2, 2014 1:05:48 AM UTC+8, Xavier wrote: Hi Peter, Not sure it's the best way, but with the node.js mode you may want to take advantage of decoupling content and metadata. Just move the PDF files into a subdirectory of tiddlers/ and create a .meta file from each PDF filename, that you can then transclude in a tiddler that is easier to handle. Like so: x2:server xavier$ 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]> 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 -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 [email protected]. 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