Browser support height

  • Resolved Pduberry

    (@pduberry)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I would like to be able to use easy fancybox to display a PDF that was converted from PowerPoint to display on my site. One gripe I have is the fact that it appears very high, lots of scrolling to navigate the slides. I would prefer a left to right behaviour for ease of navigation. I have played with some of the settings but it doesn’t change. Is this possible with the Pro version? Also, the top set of controls that I can use in FireFox don’t show up in Chrome at all and I can’t get anything to display in IE9. What kind of browser support is there for this plugin?

    Cheers, Paul.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-fancybox/

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  • Rolf Allard van Hagen

    (@ravanh)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Pduberry, this is actually not something that FancyBox has any control over. FancyBox is only a wrapper that allows the embedded media to be shown in a modal (lightbox style) window.

    PDF files are rendered by a browser plugin and it depends on the browser and installed plugin what the result looks like. There are some URL parameters you can use to change the behaviour of the common Acrobat Reader plugin but then Chrome has its own PDF Viewer which will behave differently… Some browsers do not even have a PDF viewer plugin so these visitors will not be able to see your presentation at all.

    If you want to have more control over the display of your PowerPoint file, you might want to forget about PDF and take a look at the Google Viewer at https://docs.google.com/viewer …

    1. Upload your PowerPoint file to a public location (can even be your Google Drive, set sharing options to ‘anyone that has the link’ and copy the public URL)
    2. Use the public file URL on https://docs.google.com/viewer to get the iframe embed code
    3. Take from that code the URL that is inside the src=”…” attribute
    4. Create a link on your site that uses this exact URL and give it a fancybox-iframe class
    5. Activate the iFrame content type on your Settings > Media admin page

    Hope that gives you something to work with that is closer to what you want 🙂

    Thread Starter Pduberry

    (@pduberry)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    OK. Thanks for the reply.

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