I currently use a PDF-to-Flash to allow for users to flip thru pages of uploaded PDFs. However, with so many using iPhones/iPads I would like to switch this to a solution which works with any browser.
The site is developed in Ruby on Rails and I have looked into using pdf-toolkit and rmagick to convert the PDFs to images but it's not enough since I want the pages to scale with the browser window - SVG is not an option since I need for it to work w/ IE6 ;)
Any ideas?
Thx,
G
Why don't you use http://docs.google.com/viewer ?
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/embeddable-google-document-viewer.html
It's really simple, and it isn't Flash (can serve iPhone users too :D). Just add this to the view:
<iframe src="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=#{YOUR_PDF_URL}&embedded=true"
style="width:600px; height:500px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Another option is a digital publishing platform like the one from Zmags. It converts a PDF to Flash, but when viewed on mobile devices it transforms into a swipeable version. Loads fast too.