Problem: Currently PDFs which are uploaded like this one have a very rudimentary paging interface, which is only available on the file description page. The interface does a full page reload and is not very usable on mobile interfaces. Also when transcluded, you can only select 1 page, and from there you cannot reach any other page, you have to click and visit the File description page.
Proposed solution: I propose enhancing the view with a JS based left/right arrow interface and loading pages on demand and to make the interface mobile compatible.
Who would benefit: Users trying to interact with our paged media, curators, especially on Mobile
More comments: To improve performance, we could preload the next and previous pages. Possibly extend this UI to also allow to be opened in the MediaViewer software when the PDF is embedded in a wikipage.
This is a nice wish. PDF generation (from articles) and PDF visualization (from files in Commons) is an urgent pending task since long ago. Xavier Dengra(MESSAGES) 23:59, 21 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Support Need one similar to that of Archive.org. Vis M (talk) 20:52, 28 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Yes, we mean we can read as pdf in google or edge, or some kind of file that says "Read whole file" Thingofme (talk) 09:57, 1 February 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose Major browsers (at least on desktop) already have PDF display capabilities. This seems to be asking for a duplication of that functionality which would be a waste of effort. Silver hr (talk) 18:01, 2 February 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Need one similar to that of Archive.org. Vis M (talk) 20:52, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Oppose Major browsers (at least on desktop) already have PDF display capabilities. This seems to be asking for a duplication of that functionality which would be a waste of effort. Silver hr (talk) 18:01, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
