k3davis

This has been suggested before and is already possible by creating links to Google Viewer directly. As GDE is a document viewer it doesn’t have need to create links for you; this is already baked into WordPress.

There is even a tool to automatically generate these links that can be found at: https://docs.google.com/viewer

If you want functionality that GDE adds like a better looking toolbar or private document support, you can create the viewer shortcode as you normally do, copy the link of the full screen view, and delete the shortcode creating a standard link using what you copied.

I know that GDE can make this option available and perhaps slightly more convenient, but the need for a document viewer to create links really seems minimal so I haven’t felt the value to spend development time in this area.

Hope this helps,

Kevin

Can you give any more info of exactly how it appears or behaves, or an example link? There are several things this could be but I’d have to guess with this level of detail. Thanks.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. PDF.js is an excellent tool but is not supported by GDE at this time. You’d have to approach the owner of that plugin to see if secure document management can be added.

Hesadanza,

The size of your PDF is very likely the issue. You may have to optimize the PDF for the web, or split it into multiple PDF files. The recommended max size to work well with Google Viewer is 8-10MB.

The official word from the FAQ is that cloud documents are not supported. The plugin does work with Dropbox, however it’s a bit tricky at the moment so you’re kind of at the mercy of your own skills. However I can try to point you in the right direction.

You’ll have to navigate to your document in dropbox and click on the “share” link to get the public link to your document. It may look something like this (the below URL is fake for demonstration only):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/79m7khhhh1/foo.docx?dl=0

You may be able to use this link in GDE if you change the last character to a 1 (?dl=1 after your filename) and in uncheck “check for errors before loading viewer” on the Advanced tab of GDE Settings. If this doesn’t work, you can use your browser’s dev tools while clicking on the “direct download” option to get the true URL of the document, which usually begins with something like https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/...

I have a better way of doing this from GDE planned but at the moment development of the plugin is not active; the plugin is in support mode until I have more free time or Google fixes some of their own bugs.

Hope this helps,

Kevin

http://www.davistribe.org/gde/known-issues/

You would have to split your document into multiple separate documents to navigate in this way. There is no way to create a hyperlink that opens the viewer to a particular page in the current generation of Google Viewer (which GDE embeds).

What does this code do?

echo do_shortcode('[gview file="'. urldecode($_REQUEST['f']) .'"]');

or alternately

$sc = ‘[gview file=”‘. urldecode($_REQUEST[‘f’]) .'”]’;
echo do_shortcode($sc);