I want to have a save page button on my site to allow users to just download the page that they are on.
is there like an ng-save that i can use or something?
As you've tagged PDF, I'm assuming that you're looking to save the page in a PDF format. If so, you might want to take a look at PhantomJS, which has an option to save as PDF:
http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html
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I'm working on an api which returns a PDF link. I can put that link into a button, and when users click on that link, it'll download a PDF to their computer. I wonder if there is a way, so that when users click on the link the first time, it'll download the file. But if they click on the link the second time, it just opens a modal with the PDF content inside of it? That way they don't have to download the file again and again.
It's confidential so I can't tell how the link look like, but it's a PDF link stored in s3 aws.
You can do it but you need to store the information that if the user clicked the button before or not. The options for storing that information is:
Local Storage
Cookie
Your backend
I would suggest not to involve your backend on this, you can just write to localStorage when user clicks that link for the first time and set something like pdfDownloadedPreviously. If you have multiple pdfs like this, you would need to define a unique key for each of them so they don't override each other.
And in your program logic, you can read this from the localStorage, if that key exists in the localStorage then you open your modal, otherwise download.
I am trying to create buttons on a web page that allow users to share links to PDF documents on LinkedIn. LinkedIn loads a window without any errors but offers no link or preview of the PDF or any indication of what is being shared.
Here are the two methods I have tried. First the plugin method.
<script type="in/share" data-url="http://example.net/DocumentDownload.aspx?Command=Core_Download&entryID=114"></script>
And, secondly with a custom url.
TEST
Encoding the url makes no difference.
The above links are direct document links from a DNN web site using Document Exchange. If I change the urls to any html page it works fine and LinkedIn seems to be able to extract the useful information right from the page and use that for the share details.
Can LinkedIn handle this kind of thing? There is nothing to guide me on the type of links that can be shared. I can't find any information about it. There are no errors in the web console.
Not sure, but you should try to provide LinkedIn with the link that has .pdf at the end, like http://example.com/documents/file1.pdf. I guess LinkedIn just checks the URL if it has .pdf file at the end to decide if it is a PDF document or not.
I have no problem sharing pdf's on LinkedIn. Check it out...
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https://www.revoltlib.com/anarchism/the-conquest-of-bread/view.pdf
Works perfectly fine. And view.pdf is a script, not a file, either, so, it's not looking for a PDF file to analyze, so much as headers that indicate you have a PDF file available to analyze, so, in PHP, at DocumentDownload.aspx, we would do...
header('Content-type: application/pdf; charset=utf-8');
This header let's the sharing app know that it can analyze the document as a PDF file and extract useful information from it, as you can see from the screen shot.
My problem is that I want to render a pdf inside a CakePhP view.
So I have a view with some html/php and at the end of the page I want to render some pdfs (I don't want to link pdf, really need to render them on the same page).
If you have any idea on how to do it that would be great :)
Thank you.
You cannot mix HTML and PDF and expect the browser to display it correctly, that won't work. You'll either have to convert the PDF to HTML, or display the PDF in an iframe.
For the latter to work you usually need to send a Content-Disposition of type inline, and of course it requires a browser that either supports PDF natively, or has an appropriate plugin installed.
Here's some basic example code. In the view:
<p>Some html</p>
<iframe width='123' height='456' src='/path/view_pdf'></iframe>
And then in the linked controller action respond with inline PDF data, which is pretty easy in Cake 2.x:
public function view_pdf()
{
$this->response->file('/path/to/the/file.pdf');
$this->response->header('Content-Disposition', 'inline');
return $this->response;
}
For more information check the Cookbook.
I've tried to search for this both on Google and StackOverFlow, but simply can't find what I'm looking for, it might be that it's simply not possible, but thought I would ask anyway.
I'm looking for a way to make a file redirect the user to another page, the user would download the file by clicking on a button.
It's for a Prestashop downloadable product, I'm trying to redirect the user to another part of our site (which isn't directly visible) to be able to view magazines, etc. in a viewer.
Now Prestashop is natively set up to download the file, which is what we don't want, hence the use of the viewer, but there is no way to simply provide a link to send the user to instead of a physical file, like a PDF or something. I can't really modify the button as its generated by Prestashop, and if I add a PDF file with the link in there it defeats te purpose as I dont want people having the link in a document (I know they can find it from their history and so on). Hence I thought it would be easier to do it with a document that redirects if possible.
So in short, is it possible to make a file that would send people to a certain web page once they open/download this file on/to their computer?
And if yes, how would one go about it?
Can you make the user download an HTML file? If so, you can use "meta refresh" to redirect the user to your private page.
This does mean the unprotected link will be visible in downloaded HTML file - perhaps you can obfuscate this with JavaScript to make it a little more difficult for users to find your protected URL.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H76
how do i upload an image to the portal and use it in my html of my html module?
i have an html module i want to use and part of it is an image. how do i upload to my portal and then reference the url where it is on my server inside my html?
In case you didn't see my comments on the other one. One way is to just find the file on the hard drive and figure out the link manually in relation to your web root. But if you are using this as a portal system then this might not be the best solution.
There is also upload option right withing html editor. click on image manager icon and it will give you the option to upload an image.
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If your HTML is being put in the DNN HTML module, you could also use the media picker baked in.
If you want a more integrated option, you could use the DNN FileManager API to accomplish integrated uploading and retrieving of files. The DNNFilePickerUploader might come in handy for this, which will give you a DNN file ID which you could the use to get the image url.