Look Inside! Feature

DFresh · Post by **DFresh** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:31 pm

We'll be selling a few books with AC7 shortly. We would like to have the same sort of functionality that Amazon has with their Look Inside (without the search inside feature). Mainly just a front and back cover with a PDF sample chapter. Now the covers are fine since they can just be additional images. The PDF, however, poses as a problem. I don't believe I can use this as an additional image/asset. Has anyone ventured into having this sort of feature on their site?
Thanks!

AbleMods · Post by **AbleMods** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:29 pm

I use AbcPDF 6.1 to generate PDF files on-the-fly. But you're not talking about generating on the fly, just rendering existing PDf files as additional image content.

Wouldn't take alot to modify the additional images code to pull PDF files for display. A new table would have to be made that ties ProductId to the images along with the usual add/edit/delete maintenance screens. If you could standardize the file naming, you probably won't need the maintenance routines.

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:44 pm

Hello,

The simple solution is to just link to the pdf in the product description.

DFresh · Post by **DFresh** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:04 am

I agree that a simple link in the description would probably be the easiest. I'm looking for for like a pop up window that will have the front cover (an image file), then a customer can click on a tab or another link that says "TOC" (again another image), and then another tab that says sample chapter (this would be the PDF), and then another tab or link that will show the back cover (again an image). I know that this isn't really a generalized question but I just wanted to see if anyone had tackled this in their store. And if so how did they do it. I like the idea of using the additional images to pull PDF files. I might go in that direction. Any idea on how to make that accept PDF files and image files?

Thanks for all the suggestions!