Online viewer for PostScript, PDF and Word
Intro
- This is a minimal frontend to a somewhat functional online viewer, with which you can currently view word documents as html, and postscript and pdf files as gif images. Given a url on the net or a file on your computer, the viewer will try to retrieve it and convert it to one gif image per page.
- It grew out of frustration over there never being good pdf or postscript viewers on all different operating systems and computers I use.
- The solution: a web interface! All major operating systems have somewhat functional web browsers available, so now I can view pdf and postscript files wherever I want (and it can handle compressed files too :-)).
WEB view - Fetch the document from the web:
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FILE view - Upload a file from your computer:
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Todo:
- Better user interface
- Be able to change the zoom/dpi of the image files
- Convert to different formats (jpg/gif/png/ascii :-))
- Create a FAQ that is actually based on questions people have asked...
- Page layout
- Better error messages
- Better feedback
- Increase speed (possibly by only converting pages on demand, instead of converting all like now)
- Get a nice domain name
FAQ:
- Q: Will it view my hotmail attachments? A: No.
- Q: Why is it so slow? A: Because downloading and converting images is a slow business.
- Q: Something went wrong. Who do I mail? A: cj@samurajdata.se.
- Q: What makes these neato features possible? A: In one word: Open Source (oops! that was two words...). In several words: Ghostscript, php, MSWordView, Apache, ImageMagick, gnu wget, gnu zip, Linux, Samuraj Data and so on.