22 December 2014, 9:56

Is there any way in Mahara to disdplay a small snapshot of a PDF, but the user has to click on the PDF to display the whole page?

I wanted to create a page called "8th grade".  One of the rows would be report cards, and there are 4 quarters in a year (4 report cards).  Each report card is single a PDF page.  I can get a small PDF (with scroll bars).  What I would prefer is a scaled down version of the page, even if it is not readable, and then when the user clicked on the PDF page, it would bring up the PDF document as a whole page that is readable.  Similar to what images do.  A smaller version can be put on a page, and when the user clicks on it, the large image is displayed.

Also, is there a way to insert a link?  So instead of inserting my actual PDF, I would insert a link to my PDF.

* 6th Grade Report Card (pdf)

* 7th Grade Report Card (pdf)

* 8th Grade Report Card  (pdf)

I am envisioning where the student should technically include the report card, but the student may not want to emphasize the report card.

Thanks for any help

Melissa

29 December 2014, 16:48

Hello Melissa,

You can already insert a link to the PDF by using the "Files to download" block. :-)

It's not yet possible to display thumbnails of PDFs in a page. There was https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/547710 where it was suggested, but then we implemented to display the entire PDF and then click in there to download it / view it bigger.

Mike Kelly on http://workflow.arts.ac.uk/ and based on this work, AUT University (see article in the latest Newsletter at https://mahara.org/view/artefact.php?artefact=394338&view=36871 ) implemented thumbnails for pages. Maybe some of that work could be used for PDFs.

Cheers

Kristina