/moodle-local_pdfjsrenderer

An API-Plugin for Moodle. It provides methods to render PDFs within Moodle.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptOtherNOASSERTION

PDF.JS-Renderer

This Module is an API-Plugin. It provides methods to render PDFs within Moodle. To render a desired PDF use the following code:

$fs = get_file_storage();
$fileobject = $fs->get_file_by_id($desiredfileid);
$renderable = new \local_pdfjsrenderer\output\pdfjs_renderer($fileobject);
$rendered_content = $OUTPUT->render($renderable);

Installing via uploaded ZIP file

  1. Log in to your Moodle site as an admin and go to Site administration > Plugins > Install plugins.
  2. Upload the ZIP file with the plugin code. You should only be prompted to add extra details if your plugin type is not automatically detected.
  3. Check the plugin validation report and finish the installation.

Installing manually

The plugin can be also installed by putting the contents of this directory to

{your/moodle/dirroot}/local/pdfjsrenderer

Afterwards, log in to your Moodle site as an admin and go to Site administration > Notifications to complete the installation.

Alternatively, you can run

$ php admin/cli/upgrade.php

to complete the installation from the command line.

License

2022 Bernhard Strehl moodle@software.bernhard-strehl.de

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.