A request for some web space for a test

#1

I am trying to sort out my PDF issue when linking TW to external PDF files. Given the comments from an earlier post, I have been looking at reducing file size and am trying a free account at PDF2GO. This seems to shrink the pdf files themselves very well, whilst maintaining quality.

I have also contact my ISP in the US who have replied that they have done all they can do improve file delivery.

So, I am hoping to try hosting the files on another web server and seeing if that makes a difference.

So, is there anyone who could make some web space available on their server for me to test. This would rule in/out my ISP.

I would love to host a single file, about 5MB to try. If I could get some space in Australia and somewhere else for comparison, that’d be great.

Anyone able to provide me some space and a URL for access?

bobj

#2

Provide me with a download link to your PDF, and I’ll put a copy of it in one of my neocities.org file folders.

(You may not need to share your PDF files at all if the files below are good enough for your testing.)

In the meantime, here are a few links to some PDF’s I’ve already got on there:

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#3

Thanks Charlie I’ll try with one of your pdf’s first and see how that goes.

Bobj

#4

Charlie, tried one of your PDF’s and it downloaded quite fast, 36.09 seconds.

Can we try one of mine?

http://cultconv.com/CentralStreetArchive/testing/CS70.pdf

Please send me the URL when you’ve uploaded it

bobj

#5

Yeah, that document took a while to download via your link.

Seemingly way faster via:

#6

Charlie,

just for my info, where is your server located, Australia?

bobj

#7

Thanks Charlie, that proves it for me at any rate. The blockage is with my ISP.

Not sure what I can do about it except to move to another, which is a pity because apart from this issue, all is going well with them.

Maybe I can just get a domain on a faster server for hosting the PDF’s or go down @TW_Tones’ suggestion of a content delivery network, which would require me to get a new domain name anyway as I cant see a way of moving a folder into the CDN.

bobj

bobj

#8

I can organise a sydney based host. Lets chat.

#9

No idea. Maybe some of the following links can help figure that out?

https://status.neocities.org/

#10

I’m a supporter, so the transfer speeds are better for me than they would be for a free plan.

From Wikipedia:

Neocities has 2 options for users to store their data. A free plan, which has 1 gigabyte of data storage and slower transfer speeds, and a paid plan, which allows 50 gigabytes of storage and faster transfer speeds. The paid plan costs $5.00 per month, and funds go to server expenses.

More related details: Neocities - Become a Supporter

#11

Opening the link to the CS70.pdf from neocities took about 8 seconds for me. I’m located in Austria
Your link was not able to load it within 2 minutes. So I stopped it.

#12

Thanks @pmario

Moderator edit: Your personal contact info was redacted on the assumption that you didn’t mean to post it. Apologies if mistaken.

#13

I am having some issues with TW and external PDF files.

I have moved some of my TW to neocities but find that when opening a tiddler that shows a PDF, I only get the first page.

Have a look at http://cultconv.neocities.org/CentralStreetArchive/index.html

When accessing the Magazine: ICA Magazine entry from the Items list (https://cultconv.neocities.org/CentralStreetArchive/#Magazine%3A%20ICA%20Magazine%20%234) I only see the first page.

If I access the pdf directly, I see all the pages.

Can’t explain why.

Anyone got any clues.

Bobj

#14

I can see every page and the PDFs load much faster now. The ICA Magazine has 10 pages for me. Every page shows left and right side of a book

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#15

This is getting more and more weird.

I also can see the complete publication IF using OSX on mylaptop.

If I use iOS on my iPad or iPhone, I only see the first page, slightly distorted vertically, as shown in the image.

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This would imply a problem with TW showing multi-page PDF’s using iOS. I have tried with other multi-page pdf through tiddlers and they all show the same behaviour (for example, the bottom entry, Visitors Book). I used Safari, Firefox and DuckDuckGo as browsers so I dont believe it to be a browser issue. I have also reset the iOS cache and that made no difference

Could someone else verify this on their iOS device.

http://cultconv.neocities.org/CentralStreetArchive

Click on Items in the table of contents and select Magazine: ICA Magazine #4.

bobj

#16

Hi there; I just checked with my old iPhone and am seeing the same as you: an elongated version of the front and back cover only; when I check with my laptop, it is fine.

The problem seems to be that, on iOS, the PDF frame or wrapper isn’t loading, so it’s not possible to scroll through the pages, and the PDF is aiming to fit the screen width. I’m wondering if the latter effect might be a CSS issue: have you set up a CSS file with @media queries (e.g., as per CSS Media Queries) for smaller screens (e.g., @media and (max-width: 600px) etc.?) I’m far from an expert, but clicked the “CS70” tiddler’s edit button to see if I could check this hypothesis out – unfortunately, I couldn’t play around with it as I get a message saying “You can edit the tags and fields but cannot directly edit the content itself”.

#17

At least in windows and android the way a pdf is displayed in a browser is usualy influenced by an installed viewer and browser helper. I often install the foxit pdf reader. Any wysiwyg print ready view can also be influenced by the print driver it uses because it trys to make it looks like it will print. Perhaps check if yours is set to A4 or letter and try the opposite. A lot can influence what you see, even more so in the propriety apple universe .

#18

It works fine with my Android phone using FireFox. Chrome on Android seems to have a problem too. It shows “This plugin is not supported”.

FireFox and Edge on Windows have no problem. It seems PDFs are “embedded” as images. @jeremyruston … I always thought PDFs are IFRAMEs?

#19

Actualy I think this is a clue to the problem, @Bob_Jansen PDF’s are just a wrapper for scanned or large bit map images, the do not scale or cope with changes aspect ratios etc… The most "professional way, is to scan only images and OCR the rest creating a new document but this is not always easy.

#20

Thanks everybody who replied.

On a latish Sunday afternoon, I am elated that the problem is not me.

Lets hope the TW development team can sort this out because it would be a major impediment to TW deployment given the majority of users now use tablets of some sort.

bobj