[support] accept pdf's as images?

[will hall]

ok makes sense, thanks

Metzler, David wrote:
> Yes that's true.  Remember that PDF's aren't renderable by any web
> browser software.  They load acrobat reader to display, so it's not like
> you can embed a pdf as an image in a browser window.  I'f you're doing
> images, you really should save them as jpg or gif files. 
> 
> So no, you can't load all other types of images into  a web page, but
> only jpeg and gif images. 
> 
> Alternatively you can enable the upload module and upload an entire pdf
> document as an attachment to a node, but that still won't intermingle
> html with pdf. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of will hall
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:48 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] accept pdf's as images?
> 
> hmm, well i'd like to be able to 'create content - images' and then
> upload a pdf file. i'd also in our wysiwyg editor be able to embed a pdf
> as an image. maybe it does run up against the limites of browsers?
> 
> right now what i do is convert every pdf to a jpg.
> 
> 
> thanks
> -- will
> 
> Metzler, David wrote:
>> Don't quite understand the question,  are you talking about uploading 
>> attachments to a node, or actually embedding a pdf using an img tag? 
>> If so, does that even work in a web browser?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] 
>> On Behalf Of will hall
>> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:43 AM
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Subject: [support] accept pdf's as images?
>>
>> so i can post all other types of images into nodes, but not pdfs?
>>
>>
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