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GeneralPDF for Mindat articles?

27th Aug 2014 19:08 UTCRonald J. Pellar Expert

Is the PDF format an approved format for uploading articles?


Ron

27th Aug 2014 19:15 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

Not now.

27th Aug 2014 23:52 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Not for mindat articles. but we may have a system in the future to allow upload of PDF articles to link to locality and mineral pages.


Jolyon

31st Aug 2014 19:01 UTCRonald J. Pellar Expert

Jolyon,


Your quote "That's why it's best to convert it to an open format such as PDF" is an excellent endorsement of PDF! So why not for articles?


Ron

31st Aug 2014 20:28 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

Because pdf's don't integrate well with the rest of mindat. You can easily get to the full size photo page from the article. Indexing the articles is more complicated when pdfs are used and editing of content is more difficult.

31st Aug 2014 20:29 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

I have no objections in general to incorporating PDFs within mindat - but it's very different to the current article system.


Articles created on mindat are formatted to be read on screen, not on paper - which in general PDFs are. More specifically this gives us the ability to retarget our article content for display in different ways on different devices. It doesn't really do this well yet but mindat articles could be formatted differently on a cellphone so they are still readable. You can't comfortably read a PDF on a cellphone.


Having said all this, I'd much rather have a PDF article than no article at all. If it's already done in PDF then we do need a way to be able to incorporate it into mindat. The existing article system is not the place for this, but there will be a way of adding things. We have already a PDF archive in "Mindat Books" but this is not open for outside contributions just yet.


I have big plans for the article system - and there may well be room for PDFs within this future structure.


Jolyon

1st Sep 2014 00:10 UTCRonald J. Pellar Expert

Jolyon,


Thanks for the update! I am looking forward the implementation of your future plans.


Ron

1st Sep 2014 02:25 UTCWayne Corwin

Why can't you just copy the PDF and paste it into an article page?

1st Sep 2014 09:05 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Because all formatting, attached images, etc, is lsot
 
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