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Web Design with large PDFs?
Anyone worked on a site design that had to integrate many dynamic PDFs? I worked on a design for a local newspaper that I'm mostly satisifed with, but not entirely. You see, they release each page of their paper as a huge (ala 75 MB) PDF, and there was no way I was going to host it like that. So I designed a little frame site that simply opened JPG screencaps of the PDF pages, so that it would load quickly. However, that makes the user unable to select text, and it is effected by browsers' annoying auto-resize functionality. Is there anyway to integrate small PDFs into a browsable website so that the majority of the PDF still displays? I'm sure in future years I could convince them to compress the PDFs before exporting, but the screen "real-estate" issue is still going to be a problem.
Any suggestions?
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