To be completed by the original poster:
4.1.2
Android
Hi guys,
is it possible to scroll through a multi-page pdf on a touchscreen, e.g. by pressing on the PDF page (via touchscreen or mouse)?
I know that you can set the duration per page, but in my opinion waiting for the next page is a bit annoying. So you can simply turn to the next page if you want.
Thank you in advance,
Philipp
Hi Philipp,
Coulld you please try the below guide? Also, in your CMS you will need to enable Touch Capabilities by going to Displays, row menu, Edit, Settings tab, scroll down to enable ‘Touch Capability on the device?’
View PDF files in your Xibo for Android (XfA) and Xibo for Windows (XfW) players.
Set-up:
CMS: V4.1.2
Players: XfA V4 R406 and XfW V4 R403
Upload PDF to CMS layout editor directly
In your CMS, create a layout under the ‘Layouts’ section and click on ‘Add Layout’ (the green button located at the top right of the page) and name it descriptively.
In the layout editor, click on the ‘Toolbox’ drawer to upload your PDF file from your PC. To do so, please drag and drop the ‘Upload PDF’ widget to your canvas.
Click on the ‘Add Files’ (green button) and select the PDF file from your PC
Click the ‘Start Upload’ (blue button) to start uploading your PDF file to your CMS library and layout editor.
Once the file is uploaded and you have made your final edits to your layout, go ahead and click the 3 lines (top right corner) and click on ‘Publish’.
At this point, the layout is ‘Published’ (finalized and ready) to be schedule to any of your displays.
Finally, ‘Schedule’ the layout to any of your target displays.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Hey.
Yeah, touch is already enabled.
I have followed the guide, but this prevents me from scrolling through the pages in the pdf via touch. It simply scrolls the pages automatically after a while.
Hi Philipp,
Thanks for your response.
I have replicated this issue with both XfA V4 R406 and XfW R404 on various V4 CMS versions and it seems that even enabling mouse and touch capabilities in CMS > Displays > rown menu > Settings tab does not allow scrolling for PDFs with multiple pages. I have reported this to our developers to check if this is by design and if I will need to log this as a feature request instead.
In the meantime, you can set the duration per pages so it wouldn’t take long for the pages to swtich to the next.
Tick the option for ‘Duration is per page’ under the ‘Configure Tab’.
On the ‘Advanced’ tab, tick the option ‘Set a Duration?’ then finally set your desired duration in seconds in the ‘Duration’ field.
I will keep you posted when I hear from our developers.
Kind regards,
Ok, thank you Jerry. It would be nice if this could be implemented in the future.
Hi Philipp,
I have confirmed with the development team that currently viewing PDF pages via mouse or touch capabilities is not yet a feature available in our Xibo Players at the moment.
I have logged this as Feature Request for consideration in future releases of the player.
Kind regards,
Hi Philipp,
Our developers are taking a look on your feature request which will enable a user to scroll though the PDF pages in XfW player. Digital Signage normally wouldn’t have any attached mouse on touch capabled screens for navigation. Perhaps adding a swipe feature in XfW for a user to be able to switch from previous to next PDF pages or vise versa via swipes on the screen would be much better?
Also, since the user would need to read the contents of the current PDF page, the player should allow the page to stay on the screen based on the duration set in CMS, then if there are no interactions/ swipes made, the player will go back to its normal behaviour of showing the next pages based on the duration set in CMS? Do you think this behaviour should be added as well?
Please let us know your thoughts and we appreciate any feedback you can share.
Kind regards,
Hi Jerry,
I’m pleased about the interest and commitment of the development and you.
Yes, swiping through the pages sounds good. that’s probably also more intuitive these days.
Yes, if the player goes back to the first page when inactive, that would of course be a great thing.
If the page also stays as long as the time is set on the page, that would also be great.
Hi Philipp,
We appreciate your feedback and suggestions. I’ll be sure to communicate these to our development team so we can further provide the best user experience for our XfW player. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
Kind regards,
