Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Multimedia and Commons/Improve browsing PDFs and DJVU

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Improve browsing PDFs and DJVU

Problem: Currently PDFs which are uploaded like this one have a very rudimentary paging interface, which is only available on the file description page. The interface does a full page reload and is not very usable on mobile interfaces. Also when transcluded, you can only select 1 page, and from there you cannot reach any other page, you have to click and visit the File description page.
Proposed solution: I propose enhancing the view with a JS based left/right arrow interface and loading pages on demand and to make the interface mobile compatible.
Who would benefit: Users trying to interact with our paged media, curators, especially on Mobile
More comments: To improve performance, we could preload the next and previous pages. Possibly extend this UI to also allow to be opened in the MediaViewer software when the PDF is embedded in a wikipage.
Phabricator tickets: Slightly related: phab:T54881
Proposer: —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:05, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

This is a nice wish. PDF generation (from articles) and PDF visualization (from files in Commons) is an urgent pending task since long ago. Xavier Dengra (MESSAGES) 23:59, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Need one similar to that of Archive.org. Vis M (talk) 20:52, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lion-hearted85 (talk) 22:50, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Agree with @Vis M:: it should be inspirated by Internet Archive viewer. — ElioPrrl (talk) 11:20, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support There are still serious bugs when uploading PDF and DjVu on Commons. --Yann (talk) 13:15, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hemantha (talk) 15:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cantons-de-l'Est (talk) 11:48, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JPxG (talk) 00:53, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support the wub "?!" 14:31, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sadads (talk) 16:02, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support A possibility for scrolling the full pdf ou djvu should be fine. Havang(nl) (talk) 16:32, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Alexmar983 (talk) 21:06, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 21:08, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes, we mean we can read as pdf in google or edge, or some kind of file that says "Read whole file" Thingofme (talk) 09:57, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 23:24, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support M0tty (talk) 09:54, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Major browsers (at least on desktop) already have PDF display capabilities. This seems to be asking for a duplication of that functionality which would be a waste of effort. Silver hr (talk) 18:01, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yeeno (talk) 20:24, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Bilorv (talk) 20:28, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:57, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 01:58, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support HHill (talk) 14:19, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Peter Alberti (talk) 19:53, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support DALIBRI (talk) 09:10, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 09:56, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 15:49, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 17:42, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support BugWarp (talk) 00:08, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ecritures (talk) 22:49, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Marcok (talk) 07:49, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Xavier Dengra (MESSAGES) 09:36, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gaurav (talk) 07:12, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]