On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 2:57:32 PM UTC-4, Eric Shulman wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 11:03:38 AM UTC-7, AlexHough wrote:
>>
>> in other words, dragging a pdf into TW inserts the text of the pdf into
>> the tiddler.... as plain text?
>>
>
> Nope. It inserts the PDF as a binary file, stored using base64-text
> encoding. When you view the PDF tiddler directly (or embed it via
> transclusion), it renders the PDF inline within your browser... but it's
> still a binary. It's not plain text.
>
> -e
>
Also, I have found that if the PDF is large enough or complex enough, your
TiddlyWiki document will crash and burn. Small simple PDFs embed quite
nicely.
A work-around that is a safer bet is to make a tiddler that is an external
link to the document. It can be a relative file:// type link so you can
keep everything in one directory tree. Then you can do all the
transcluding/tagging/etc. that you can do if it was embedded without the
crashiness.
I Frankensteined together a little helper tiddler from tips and tricks from
people here to make these external links that I include as a tool in each
document I create ... cut and paste the following into a tiddler and start
linking.
/Mike
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\define theTiddler() $(the_tiddler)$!!title
\define myconcat() $(t1)$$(t2)$
|!Filename |<$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/ExternalLink"
placeholder="filename" tag="input" type="text"/> |
|!Directory |<$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/ExternalLink" field="directory"
placeholder="directory" tag="input" type="text"/> |
''Filetype:'' <$select tiddler='$:/temp/ExternalLink' field='type'
default='image/gif'>
<$list
filter='[all[shadows+tiddlers]prefix[$:/language/Docs/Types/]each[group]sort[group]]'>
<optgroup label={{!!group}}>
<$list
filter='[all[shadows+tiddlers]prefix[$:/language/Docs/Types/]group{!!group}]
+[sort[description]]'>
<option value={{!!name}}><$view field='description'><$view
field='title'/></$view> (<$view field='name'/>)</option>
</$list>
</optgroup>
</$list>
</$select>
<$set name="t1" value={{$:/temp/ExternalLink!!directory}}>
<$set name="t2" value={{$:/temp/ExternalLink!!text}}>
_canonical_uri field = <<myconcat>>
<$reveal type="nomatch" text="" state="$:/temp/ExternalLink">
<$reveal type="match" text={{$:/temp/ExternalLink}}
state={{$:/temp/ExternalLink}}>
<$button set="$:/temp/ExternalLink!!title"
setTo={{$:/temp/ExternalLink}}>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/temp/ExternalLink" $field="_canonical_uri"
$value=<<myconcat>>/>
Modify
</$button>
<$set name="the_tiddler" value={{$:/temp/ExternalLink}}>
<$button setTo="$:/temp/ExternalLink" set=<<theTiddler>>>
Fetch
</$button>
</$set>
</$reveal>
<$reveal type="match" text="" state={{$:/temp/ExternalLink}}>
<$button set="$:/temp/ExternalLink!!title"
setTo={{$:/temp/ExternalLink}}>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/temp/ExternalLink" $field="_canonical_uri"
$value=<<myconcat>>/>
Create
</$button>
</$reveal>
</$reveal>
</$set>
</$set>
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