Now as I finished my blog, I want to present a new feature to you. The seamless pdf viewer: “ipaper” developed by scribd and not by Apple as you may thought. ipaper is a whole new way to present documents, no matter what kind of documents .pdf, .xls or .doc . They developed a nice flash application which renders all these documents to a special flash based format. But there is one thing most people do not like about this document viewer, that is the style.
You can not integrate such a flash application in a webpage without loosing either style or functionality.
I thought about this issue for quite a while because in my opinion ipaper is the perfect combination between print and web for professional publishing on the web. So, as I designed my movie trailer siteduring that time I came up with the idea why not integrate ipaper into lightbox ? It would be the perfect combination, because people can read the documents in fullscreen mode while the page layout is still the same. You only need a single link like:
To integrate ipaper within your website, but apart any other solution it also looks really great. By the way the document is called “Car negie Mech” published by http://www.me.cmu.edu/ .
Do you like this way of presenting documents ? Do you want to add it to your site as well ? It is really simple and can even be done in Wordpress. You only need a modified version of Lightbox or simply you need mediabox from Iaian7, it is a already modified version and fits my needs perfectly.
So I am going to use this feature to present my works on this blog. If you have any ideas how to optimize the ipaper integration feel free to leave a comment.
February 15th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I really like your blog template, is makes it simple to navigate.
March 1st, 2009 at 9:08 am
Good post, adding it to my bookmarks!
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:13 pm
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March 5th, 2009 at 6:24 am
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March 7th, 2009 at 3:18 am
Your writing style is quite a god guide for me if you like – I have recently started my own blog and I am really struggling to write articles!
April 25th, 2009 at 5:03 am
I was wondering if you could set up some sort of system so when your publish a new article, i get emailed to alert me? Or something like that.
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