[Qgis-user] How to make an hyperlink to a multimedia object inattribute table

[Mayeul Kauffmann]

Re,

Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 14:37 +0200, Christophe TUFFERY a écrit :
For pdf format, I choose to use Firefox Acrobat Reader plugin because I
used a file with its URL in the database.
> If you want to use a local pdf file, it works perfectly if you put the
right path of the pdf file in the database.

Do you mean something like this (on Linux)?
file:///home/user/Document.pdf

What do you use for Windows users?



> Hope my explanations are enough clear and that iit will be useful for
either people with same needs.

Yes it will, thanks!!


Mayeul




Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 14:37 +0200, Christophe TUFFERY a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you to Mayeul and Giovanni.
> 
> I succeed in implementing the following extension formats in eVis
> Events Browser of QGis 1.6.0.
> 
> Here are below different extensions and how you have to configure
> external application from which hypermedia file will be opened either
> in the hypermedia eVis display window or using external application
> configured for it :
> 
>  
> 
> mdb : C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/OFFICE11/MSACCESS.EXE
> 
> jpg : C:/Program Files/PhotoFiltre/PhotoFiltre.exe
> 
> tif : C:/Program Files/PhotoFiltre/PhotoFiltre.exe
> 
> doc : C:/Program Files/OpenOffice.org 3/program/swriter.exe
> 
> pdf : C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe
> 
> mp3 : C:/Program Files/VideoLAN/VLC/vlc.exe
> 
> kml : C:/Program Files/Google/Google Earth/client/googleearth.exe
> 
> etc...
> 
>  
> 
> For image formats such as jpg and tif, files may appear in the eVis
> display window. In this case, you don't have to configure external
> application.
> 
> But if you want to make such image format files be opened in an
> external application, you have to configure it as I did above using
> Photofiltre which is a freeware imagery software. In eVis display
> Windows, you just have to click (or double-click) on the filename and
> it will be opened using the external application which is linked with.
> 
>  
> 
> For pdf format, I choose to use Firefox Acrobat Reader plugin because
> I used a file with its URL in the database.
> 
> If you want to use a local pdf file, it works perfectly if you put the
> right path of the pdf file in the database.
> 
> In my case, pdf document is opened (or registered) locally using
> Acrobat Reader because I configure it as external application linked
> to pdf format.
> 
>  
> 
> Hope my explanations are enough clear and that iit will be useful for
> either people with same needs.
> 
>  
> 
> Christophe TUFFERY
> 
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> 
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> En réponse à Mayeul Kauffmann <mayeul.kauffmann at free.fr> :
> > Hi, 
> > For acrobat reader (and in fact many media) you could use a url to
> > have 
> > it open in e.g. firefox. Then the user can define in firefox
> > preferences 
> > if it should be displayed in firefox or with external application.
> > THis 
> > is cross-platform and does not rely on knowing the path of the 
> > application. 
> > In Acrobat reader, you can even define which page of the pdf should
> > be 
> > opened. 
> > Hope this helps. 
> > (feedback on implementing this will be highly appreciated!) 
> > Mayeul 
> > 
> > 
> > Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 10:03 +0100, Giovanni Manghi a écrit : 
> > > > I already tried the first way you mentioned but it doesn't seem
> > to work. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > under Windows can be tricky: the path to the executable need to
> > be 
> > > placed between '"' and some programs (ex: acrobat reader) seems to
> > not 
> > > accept very well command line parameters. 
> > > 
> > > cheers 
> > > 
> > > -- Giovanni -- 
> > > 
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