Browsable PDFs with more pages

Feature Requests
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Introduction

Can you add a feature that allows browsing PDFs with more pages? For now you can set a limit per page and then it displays the next page.

User Story

My wish would be to have a function that allows manually browsing in PDFs. For example by clicking/touching in the right spot (forward) or left spot (backwards) of the PDF. That would make it much easier for me to display PDFs with more pages. For now the user has to wait a specific time until the next page appears.

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I think you are loking for “Interactive actions” which allow navigation, i tried navigation through 3 layouts and it worked properly, but i dont know if this can help with PDF page onscreen navigation: https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/xibo-cms-4-3-0-alpha-released/35721/2

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Thank you for your answer.

Unfortunately not. If I get it right, browsing a pdf with for example 10 pages would mean, I need ten layouts and I have to split every PDF.

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Sadly yes, this would require 10 page PDF to 10 layout.

@DanBW , Maybe there is a way with API or webhooks to rotate PDF’s ?

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Hi Philipp and 0x0.

0x0 is correct that this is the current method available. You could create a single layout that contains a playlist of PDF pages, then use the next widget/previous widget options to browse forward and back through the PDFs in the playlist.

I’m not sure how you would use the API to achieve this, but you are welcome to ask in the developer section of community, as the developers will know better than me if that’s possible.

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