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I agree with Shadow. I have issues linking to wikis and webpages for the same reasons. Pointers to outside files is not a good idea for a database that may be shared with others or accessed from other devices.
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There are several providers that allow hyperlinking to specific pages in a PDF. Alas, free cloud drives such as Dropbox and Google Drive don't seem to support that natively without some tinkering.
On the other hand, Dropbox *might* be able to do it fairly easily if you put the file into the "Public" directory, then create a link like this: https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/c...-page-pdf-file Disclaimer: Don't do this with copyrighted material that you aren't permitted to share as the file will be in theory accessible by anyone who knows the folder name. I don't think search engine crawlers can find it, but you can never be entirely sure. |
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For years I've had to deal with people complaining that "this PDF I got from your website doesn't work" because they were viewing them in their browser. I highly encourage everyone to disable all PDF plugins/extensions/etc. and always download and open PDFs locally. If you can reach it, so can the search engines. |
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But it's already here, you can hyperlink to any web page, this web page may be inaccessible for any particular reason. The site down, there is no internet connection, you need to register or require a subscription... Moreover Parody posted a snippet to exectute a batch on the local drive. So again it's already there. I think that most of the people would know and anticipate that linking an external document would make it unavailable for players or anyone on another machine. The decision to use external links should be left to the user. |
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That said, my disclaimer still applies: if it's publicly accessible, it's publicly accessible. It may not be easy to find, but unless you gate the document with a login, people *can* still find it, however unlikely that may be. |
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Just my 2 cents....
I link all my source materials to my Google Drive which is private unless I share it with a particular person. So if Player A is allowed access, he follows the link and get's the book displayed in Chrome (fair use, I have download disabled, It's the same as handing a book to someone to look up a rule). If Player B is new to the group and I haven't shared access, he'll click the link and get access denied. If Random Stranger on the Internet A does a search for a book in my library, then they'll get nothing from my library. Completely hidden, unless I give you access. That's how I use it anyway. As to the page reference...that's awesome.... And I've seen it in a couple of character gen programs like Chummer 4th ed, where you link your pdfs and the program can open the book to the right page. But that's a LOT of work to replicate in RW, so I might do it for something unwieldy like a crazy scene with special IF/Then's in it, but 9/10 times, I'll say "ultimate equipment p. 93" in my snippet and the source will tag "ultimate equipment". Click the link, opens the source, click the source link and page down to 93. |
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Really ?
http://partners.adobe.com/public/dev...JS.pdf#page=24 PS : we jsut need RW to support file:// |
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.htaccess (and any similar configuration settings for non-Apache servers; not all have this feature) can restrict things...if your provider allows them, if you don't screw it up, if you don't have anything bad in your browser(s) leaking information, and if you don't ever provide access to anyone but yourself. Any service that appears to be secure is one security issue away from yours or everyone's files being public. (Remember the celebrity photo hack from last year?) Quote:
I'm also an old and crotchety Internet user who used to go uphill both ways to get packets for pine and Mosaic. Grains of salt for everyone! :) |
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That made me think and I came up with a solution. Since it works with browsers (http:// protocol), I simply need to start a web server on my machine , it will serve the pdf files. I did, and now when I create an hyperlink to http://localhost:5000/realmworks/mypdf.pdf#page=12 then tadaaaa ! the pdf opens at the right page in my browser. |
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