Installation

Node document converter server

Requirements

node
unoconv (https://github.com/unoconv/unoconv)
OpenOffice

Usage

Run yarn start or npm start and head to localhost:3000.

By default control bar is hidden, a default PDF document is displayed and autorotate is toggled on. Meaning it will go to the next page automatically every 3 second.

The webpack server with the viewer is running on localhost:3000
The express REST Api to convert documents and to control the viewer from API calls is running on localhost:3001
The websocket server to send message to the viewer is running on localhost:3002

Features

Display PPT, PDF documents and images consistently
Full keyboard control or light UI
Full API Control
Autorotate, loop (goes back to 1st page after the last page)
Meant to be used for a video/tv setup
Full screen display

Keyboard and on screen controls

Press C to display control bar Arrows to go next, last, previous and first page R to toggle autorotate

You can control autorotate speed with the control bar (no keyboard yet)

Click the upload icon to change the document displayed (ppt, pdf or image)

API Control

The viewer is controlable through an API. When the page is open, the viewer connects to a websocket endpoint and gets attributed a uuid.

The uuid is displayed in the control bar of the viewer and is used in the API to target that particular client

If no uuid is provided in the API, every client are targeted

POST

/api/nextPage/:uuid Goes to the next page

/api/previousPage/:uuid Goes to the previous page

/api/lastPage/:uuid Goes to the last page

/api/firstPage/:uuid Goes to the first page

/api/toggleAutorotateOn/:uuid Set the autorotate function on

/api/toggleAutorotateOff/:uuid Set the autortate function off

/api/toggleAutorotate/:uuid Toggle the autorotate function

/api/increaseAutorotateDelay/:uuid Increase the autorotate delay by 1sec

/api/decreaseAutorotateDelay/:uuid Decrease the autorotate delay by 2sec