Problem with linking to & viewing newspaper cuttings

  • johnnybach4

    (@johnnybach4)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    I have written a long article that contains six dates – each date relates to a particular newspaper cutting. The cuttings are in both JPEG and PDF format and I want to link each date in the text to the relevant cutting.

    The problems are that, in the first place, I don’t know which would be best to use JPEG or PDF and am unsure as to how to do the link for the best. In the second place, some of the cuttings are very long as they come from broadsheets and my problem is getting them onto the screen so that they can be read – I need some way of enlarging them when necessary.

    I hope someone can help me as I have several articles with the same problem and I would love to show the original cuttings rather than do a transcription.

    I’d be very grateful if someone can help as this is a great sticking point with me at the moment.

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  • RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    I don’t think this is particularly a localhost question, hence the slow reply from an engineer rather than a text copy practitioner.

    I think you should but in links to both the JPG and PDF, they suit different people and their browsers differently.

    Say that your articles have been uploaded to your folder: “Wp-content/uploads/”, then in TEXT mode of your page/post you would have HTML like this:
    <a href="/wp-content/uploads/article1.jpg">View the article for date1 as JPG</a> <a href="/wp-content/uploads/article1.pdf">View the same article for date1 as PDF</a>
    Hopefully the jpg and pdf have enough resolution to let you zoom in the browser and read them.

    Thread Starter johnnybach4

    (@johnnybach4)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Ross, I don’t want to use both passwords because the pdf works out at just over 3mb and the size of print still makes it difficult to read for someone with not the best eyesight.

    And I have 10 such pdfs! The same goes for the image though it’s slightly smaller. If I did use both, I would be taking up about 60mb of memory on just ten newspaper cuttings!

    I understand the HTML, that’s no problem but I need to find a way of showing the image/pdf large enough to read easily and, for some reason, I can’t seem to achieve that.

    I could set the size of each pdf/jpg using HTML but that’s messy and too time consuming.

    I’ve added pdfs before and never had a problem so what am I doing wrong now? I’ll keep trying and, perhaps, it will dawn on me but it hasn’t so far!

    I’m sorry but if this isn’t a localhost question, where should I go to ask it?

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