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New Umbraco Package: PDF Preview

Scandia is contributing to the Umbraco open source community with yet another package. This one is simple, but should come in handy for other developers and site owners alike.

It allows users to easily select from the existing Media library, using uploaded PDF documents. Furthermore, the user can select which page in the PDF document to use for the preview. This comes in handy if, for example, you are linking to an exported PowerPoint deck, but want to show something other than the title slide.

Configuration

The macro takes the following parameters:

  • Page Number - The number of the page in the PDF document
  • PDF File - The PDF file to preview (using Media Chooser)
  • Quality DPI (optional) - The default value is 18 (max) but can be set lower.
  • Link URL (optional) - By default the macro links to the selected PDF document. This can be overridden with any fully qualified URL (including "http://")

Download

You can download the package here.

Credits

The PDF preview package uses a free version of PDF Preview by Tall Components.