Hi guys,
I am proud to announce WebViewers are now available for XWiki.
As part of the Resilience research project, I and others have been working on a
compatible solution for interfacing the variety of Javascript file viewers and
editors with the many available web application frameworks. The first few
WebViewers are available now on
http://webviewers.org/ and as self-contained
archive files, are installable on any system supporting the API.
More interestingly, the first few WebViewers to be ported are now available as
XWiki Extensions on
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ExtensionCode/ExtensionSearch?sp…
and while they are largely prototypes, one which is useful right now is the
PDF WebViewer based on Mozilla's pdf.js.
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/pdf+webviewer
This is of course installable with the Extension Manager and supports XWiki
versions 5.1 or newer.
With this you will be able to both view in a preview window and embed in a wiki
page, the content of a PDF attachment. Viewing of the attachment is done by
clicking on the magnifying glass shown next to the PDF attachment and embedding
a PDF attachment in the page is done using the {{embed}} macro (part of the
XWiki WebViewers extension).
You can see the embedded viewers and example uses of the {{embed}} macro here:
http://webviewers.org/xwiki/bin/view/Viewers/Demo
And you can see the magnifying glass icons next to the attachments here:
http://webviewers.org/xwiki/bin/view/Viewers/Demo#Attachments
If anyone has any questions or comments about WebViewers or the XWiki Extensions,
I'd love to hear them.
Thanks,
Caleb