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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Google Doc Embedder] [Plugin: Google Doc Embedder] Document TitleAs far as the filesystem is concerned, the filename IS the document title. Do you mean a file name set in the document properties of a PDF, or a manually entered name of some sort, or…?
This site seems to be using some kind of on-the-fly document generation system that is not compatible with Google Docs Viewer. Unfortunately this document can’t be supported by GDE at present.
Hi perfectblue,
Could you post the link to the document, or use the support link at the bottom of GDE Settings page? It appears it was removed from your post.
You do not have to update Adobe to use the plugin (or even have it installed), so the problem is something else.
Kevin
The JavaScript error you mentioned is similar to (or the same as) the one I experienced on FF15 beta before the certificate problem was resolved. There is some practical limitation to the size of the files supported, but if your file is indeed 3.44MB as your page indicates this is unlikely to be the case, unless one was on a very slow connection. Usually files up to 7-8MB show up with minimal fuss, and sometimes several sizes larger.
I’ll keep my attention on this in case there is some trend in the kind of support requests I receive, but I’m afraid at the moment I’m at a dead end in what I can examine about this particular environment. I appreciate your understanding and patience with this. I certainly would like to resolve all issues possible, but some are simply beyond my control as an embedder of a third-party product.
It may be certificate related, I don’t know. From what I read, Safari 6 has a Developer menu that may allow you to monitor network traffic of your requests. You could turn that on and reload the page, and see where it may be failing – denied URLs, javascript errors, or whatever – whether you know what they mean or not, it might help determine where the “fault” lies. I wish I could test this for you, but I don’t have access to either an ipad or Safari 6. If anyone else on here does and wants to chime in, I’d welcome it.
@michael S., it seems Safari 6 is not available on Windows, and I don’t have an ipad (quite happily), so I don’t know what more to do there…
I installed FF 15 in a virtual machine and saw the empty gray box under the toolbar, the “loading” imaged finished then the area remained blank. Investigating it with firebug I noted one of the net requests (the one to the document itself) was labeled as “Aborted”. Then I copied that URL into a new tab and got a security warning, saying that site’s security certificate expired on 7/25. I added a security exception, reloaded the page and saw the document normally. Then I looked at the certificate installed and a new one was issued on 7/25. Seems FF 15 isn’t picking up that cert automatically for some reason, but once forced, it’s normal. I would chaulk that particular problem up to a bug in the beta of Firefox (15b3).
What do you mean by “vanished”? (Error message, either inline or in the page source at the viewer location?) I see you’re using the standard viewer also, does the “enhanced” behave any differently? I don’t have any device to test that particular environment.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Google Doc Embedder] [Plugin: Google Doc Embedder] Remove Error messageIf the error is exactly the same as the one reported by kepongcoder, then there is nothing I can do. The service itself is not working for your document for reasons unknown. I may be able to make some suggestions but I’d need a link or something idenfifying the problem document (you can use the Support link at the bottom of the GDE Settings page)
Could you compress the PDF? Otherwise there’s not much this plugin can offer in that case.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Google Doc Embedder] [Plugin: Google Doc Embedder] Remove Error messageHi kepongcoder,
This error comes from Google Viewer, which GDE embeds – not the plugin itself. Is the source for the document you’re embedding down, by chance, or is the file especially large?
Kevin
@vitavital, Unfortunately I can’t speak to that, as Firefox 15 is beta software. Hopefully it will be fixed. If Google’s viewer is broken when the browser is released, that would be a big problem for the two companies to work out. But it’s too soon to say.
Are you having the problem on Firefox 14 (or any other stable release browser)? Can you share the details?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Google Doc Embedder] [Plugin: Google Doc Embedder] PPTX "§(&F%!&ö•"Hi Anne,
There are problems with some Office XML documents in Google’s viewer at the present time. This is noted on the plugin’s web site home page. Without a link or anything to go on I’m only assuming that is the issue in your case. The suggestion is to save the document in Office 2003 format (PPT) for the time being while I await resolution from Google.
If you want to send me further details, my email address is in the GPL statement at the top of gviewer.php. Not sure why the message wouldn’t send…? Not had any mention of that issue before.
Hope this helps,
Kevin
I’m refraining from adding features (only bug fixes) to 2.4.x as I’m working on 2.5 which has some significant updates. If you want to contact me directly (my email address is in the GPL statement at the top of gviewer.php) I can send you a drop-in replacement that will allow this to work in the meantime. Note that it will be lost on any plugin updates, in case new 2.4.x bug fixes are released. I’ll include the fix to the issue above as well (new window button hidden but still narrowly clickable).
Hi rohanpai,
It doesn’t seem possible (or at least, I haven’t figured out yet) how to disable selection/copying of text. I can, however, remove all the visual cues – that would make it seem like selection is not possible (no outline, no highlighting, default cursor). This isn’t present in the current version because it isn’t quite 100% effective, but would probably prevent most people from trying. What do you think of this solution?
Feel free to set up a test page as an example. With the plugin removed I have nothing to go on. Thanks.