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Re: Show HN: Nextprev.it: Share PDFs & control what page the viewer sees in realtime

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Doesn't seem to work in Chrome. This is what I get: http://i.imgur.com/ps7LT.png

Ah, that sucks. Sorry about that. We haven't run into this. This may be due to your PDF export settings or the library we're using to render the PDFs. We'll look into it.

Are things broken right now? No matter the browser, when I try to upload one of my small PowerDot created presentations (90k), it just pops a banner up that says "Thanks for signing up" and nothing happens.

Re: Show HN: Nextprev.it: Share PDFs & control what page the viewer sees in realtime

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, that sucks. Sorry about that. We haven't run into this. This may be due to your PDF export settings or the library we're using to render the PDFs. We'll look into it.

Are things broken right now? No matter the browser, when I try to upload one of my small PowerDot created presentations (90k), it just pops a banner up that says "Thanks for signing up" and nothing happens.

Yea, that's totally our fault. We added an email signup form, but screwed something up. It should be working now!

Re: Show HN: Nextprev.it: Share PDFs & control what page the viewer sees in realtime

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are things broken right now? No matter the browser, when I try to upload one of my small PowerDot created presentations (90k), it just pops a banner up that says "Thanks for signing up" and nothing happens.

Yea, that's totally our fault. We added an email signup form, but screwed something up. It should be working now!

Thanks, it looks like it works now. This will be great for my research group!

Re: Show HN: Nextprev.it: Share PDFs & control what page the viewer sees in realtime

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Very very nice, congratulations ! Could you share a little bit of the technologies used ? How to you make every browser go to the same page ? Do you think this would be possible with video as well, like making sure everybody is at the same point on a video ?

framebench.com does this for video, PDF and images.. syncs pan and zoom position as well. In private beta, collecting some great feedback for now :)

Great to see people building apps which leverage the power of sockets and enable real time interactions on the web. A trend which is much likely to catch fire soon.

(yes, I work with Framebench!)

Re: Show HN: Nextprev.it: Share PDFs & control what page the viewer sees in realtime

#25
post #15

Doesn't seem to work in Chrome. This is what I get: http://i.imgur.com/ps7LT.png

Ah, that sucks. Sorry about that. We haven't run into this. This may be due to your PDF export settings or the library we're using to render the PDFs. We'll look into it.

Check up the compatibility.js file that comes with pdfjs. We edited some portions according to our need to have some PDFs render properly. Although we're not totally there yet too!
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