Comments on: How To Create Your Own Personal Document Viewer (Like Scribd or Google Books)

By: Michael Lynn

Michael Lynn — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:12:03 +0000

Thanks – great article. I’ve created an article which explains how to do something very similar using ExtJS / Javascript. My approach leverages a perl script to parse a csv file containing the details of your documents. This script builds the JSON required by the treeview control. There’s a demo at http://mlynn.org/docviewer-1.0/ and the article with downloadable examples is at http://www.mlynn.org/2012/01/create-a-simple-document-viewer-with-extjs/

Thanks again!

By: epistasis

epistasis — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:07:50 +0000

Hi Eric,

I was wondering if you could let us know how storing the document in your wiki works?

Do you have to duplicate things? A copy in the wiki, and a copy in a file system so that the document browser displays how it does?

I’m looking for a way to store, tag & retrieve/view .pdf/.docx files.

I’ve been looking into docmgr.org but I’m not sure how I could integrate it with MediaWiki

Adam

By: Document Viewer

Document Viewer — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:46:56 +0000

Hi, Thank you for your post it is a nice blog. You have describe the large number of document formats and applications are available in my documents. You can also distribute your thoughts and ideas on Document Viewer

By: ericblue76

ericblue76 — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:02:36 +0000

I recently discovered a tool to convert .chm files to .pdf. http://code.google.com/p/chm2pdf/

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:09:10 +0000

Hi Eric,

It is an excellent Article. However, I woud like to use it on my local webserver(http://localhost/myLocalweb/). How can I change the path to Docs folder to get the tree view?

Thanks

Vincent

By: ericblue76

ericblue76 — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:05:04 +0000

Hi Travis,

I created a follow-up post with a link to the download. Bear in mind it’s nothing fancy (e.g. some weekend hacking) but gets the job done.

http://eric-blue.com/2010/02/12/example-document-browser-code/

By: Travis Cooper

Travis Cooper — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:00:24 +0000

Hi Erik,
Have you posted your work online to download (the source). I’d love to try this on my personal server as well.

Thanks!

By: Ruchi Lohia

Ruchi Lohia — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:43:40 +0000

Hi Erik,

I also want to create this type of application, I convert my document by pdf2swf tool, but unable to show it in a popup on my html. Can you suggest me the way. It will be great to hear from you

Regards
Ruchi

By: George Anderson

George Anderson — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:12:39 +0000

Nice job Eric! I think the next challenge is to make read/write access on the way…

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George.

By: jose sterling

jose sterling — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:15:27 +0000

Your friend can tell me how to run the pdftohtml.exe did in php. thanks