I am working on a job site where job seekers can upload their resume . When editing their profile , I want them to view their previous resume . I used <iframe> for this purpose , but instead of displaying the doc file,it shows an option to download . So how can I display their resume (in .doc,.docx and .odt format)
You can use php's fopen function, however there is a lot of unwanted code within a word doc file. Maybe a quick search could help you with what you want:
Reading/Writing a MS Word file in PHP
It would require a lot of effort. best bet is to create a wysiwyg editor instead of an upload that they can copy and paste to
You can't display .doc,.docx and .odt format files on browser. Basically a browser is designed for parsing HTML files only. You can use Flash to display doc inside your browser,
You need to embed the src, if you were to embed the source, it stops Adobe Reader or what not, taking over the browser entirely, and actually views it in the window, this should help:
Recommended way to embed PDF in HTML?
I know this is for PDF's but I would assume you can use it for .doc too.
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I'm developing a PHP MySql website in which pdf will be uploaded by site administrator. Viewers will get a list of all the pdf documents.
What I want is:
To open the PDF in my <div>.
No user should be able to download the PDF by any means.
I tried google doc viewer, it simply converts pdf to images which can be saved easily.
Also it gives View in Full option by which one can easily download the pdf.
And ofcourse,
<div><object data="test.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="300" height="200"></object></div>
is not working.
Please help..
You can use an iframe to embed a PDF inside a div, though it will rely on them having a PDF-reader plugin enabled on their browser. However, there is no way to show a PDF to a user in a way that does not let them save it
In order to read the PDF they HAVE to save a tmp version on their computer in any case, so you simply cannot prevent them from having a copy if they want.
There are a variety of ways to make it more difficult, but that's it. Tieson's solution, which draws the PDF to an HTML5 canvass makes it difficult to get the original PDF for non-technical users, but it only took about 2 minutes for me to find the PDF source and download the original (i.e. http://hazaar.funkynerd.com/pdfdoc/get?file=acr5smallpdf_80327_7.pdf). There are other, similar approaches using java or flash that don't actually show the PDF, but rather a rendering of the PDF by a third-party plugin, which will make it even more difficult, but even then the user could re-create the PDF using third-party tools or just simple screenshots, etc.
It's not really 100% reliable/stable, but there is a jQuery plugin for Mozilla's experimental PDF.js at http://dev.funkynerd.com/projects/jquery-pdfdoc
Does anybody know how instead of providing a link to users to download a doc file, I can embed PART of the file on an iframe on the same page. I want to give users a teaser on the iframe but not access to the entire document..Thanks!
Browsers can't open native MS Word files.
For the '.doc' or '.docx' files, you'll need to read the except on the server-side and convert it into HTML. For '.txt', most browsers will read those natively, but if you want to show only an excerpt, you will need to read into the file, probably server-side.
See Convert .doc to html in php. Once you have HTML on the server, you can trim it down to make your excerpt before displaying it.
The bad news is this is probably more complicated than you thought. The good news is that you won't need iframes.
I want to give users a preview of certain files on my site and will be using scribd API. Does anyone know how I can access the full file from my server and save the file under a different name , which I will then show to users..Can't think of a way to do this with PHP for .docx and image files...Help is much appreciated.
For "splitting" images, use an image processing library like gd to crop the image (lots of examples to be found on how to do that all over the place). For Word documents, use a library like PHPWord (or one of the other myriad such libraries) to open the document, remove/extract as much text as you need, then save that into a new Word file.
For other file types, find the appropriate method that allows you to manipulate that format, then do whatever you need to do with it.
I am looking for some way to code a function (I'm open to any language or library at this point) to take an already existing PDF file as input and return a modified PDF file that links certain words to different URLs. I know PHP and ColdFusion both have good tools for dealing with PDF's, but I haven't been able to find anything that works.
I've been doing this by going through Acrobat and linking the text by hand and was wondering if there was any way to automate the procedure.
Thanks!
With ColdFusion you can extract the text with DDX (see Extracting text from a PDF document on the page), modify it using search/replace and generate new document.
If I understand what you're trying to do, you should be able to use CFPDF (http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/Tags_p-q_02.html#2922772) to read the pdf file into a ColdFusion variable, replace whatever content you want in that variable, then save the content back to pdf.
We want to display a pdf-file on a webpage.
From what i can think of i see two possible solutions, displaying the file with some kind of pdf reader(maybe in flash?) or converting the pdf-file to html before displaying it.
How would you proceed to solve a problem like this?
Which would be the preferable method?
Well, there's always a third way: serve the PDF itself and leave the rest to the visitor.
For public websites, you can improve the user experience and reduce bandwidth overhead by embedding your PDF documents in your pages using one of the document sharing services such as:
http://www.scribd.com
http://www.docstoc.com
I should also add that scribd also has an API for uploading documents (and more).
If you absolutely need to display the PDF in the browser, you can use FlashPaper. It installs on Windows as a printer, and lets you convert any kind of document to SWF, which you embed in your HTML.
I've used it in several projects, but it's not an ideal solution. From the user standpoint, the best thing is to be able to download the PDF and read it with her favorite PDF viewer.
Try using the embed or object html tags.
http://blog.flashcolony.com/?p=244
Personally I wouldn't bother with that, and just rely on the user to have a proper pdf reader. If you go for a flash (or silverlight?) solution, you're imposing another requirement to the user to cover up the first one. On the other hand, converting PDF to HTML isn't all that easy, just look at how the output from Gmail's 'view as html' functionality looks.
As said, and as others already posted while I'm writing this I am sure, is to not bother and just let the visitor deal with having something to read pdf with ;-)
A solution not mentioned by others is to rasterize the PDF (say, via ghostscript) and serve the resulting image as PNG, JPG, etc. You have to choose the resolution (perhaps 72 dpi) and you have to understand that the document will become much less readable, especially to sensory impaired visitors.
Create a PHP file like this: I'm calling this first php file "firstfile.php"
<?php
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
$file='yourpdffile.pdf';
#readfile($file);
?>
Then create another PHP file and use iframe to get your desired PDF file. Sample code is below
<iframe src="http://localhost/Domainfolder/firstfile.php>" height="400px" width="750px">
</iframe>
This should do the trick unless you don't reference the links well. Enjoy ;)