Feature request: Inline PDF

Features
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Heh, there is a reason why I love Joplin so :heart_eyes_cat:

(Sorry late to the party)

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For anyone biting their nails waiting for an update from laurent : https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/4008#issuecomment-741940881

Thanks for the work, @roman_r_m!

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Yes it will be in the next release, along with audio and video players. I had an idea on how to implement it after discussing it with Roman.

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Out of interest is this going to be globally on/off selectable by the user or will it allow something like the "image display marker" (!) to display a pdf inline? Something like ![Example.pdf](:/cb159e8cdbce40ffb94d3a31cdabcdef). It would be great if a user could choose to just link or display depending on need.

Just thinking of those that may just want to reference pdfs in the middle of a paragraph.

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For now it will be global settings which you can enable/disable in the Config screen, for pdf, audio or video files. We won't support ![Example.pdf](:/cb159e8cdbce40ffb94d3a31cdabcdef) because it's not standard Markdown (its been discussed before for video files and it's not a good idea because it will break if displayed outside Joplin).

However I was thinking about adding a menu entry like "Toggle media players" which would allow users to toggle the players on and off using a shortcut.

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Inline display of pdfs is a great step forward for me.

To stop them automatically showing I wrap the link in the following code -

<details close>
<summary>Show pdf ...</summary>

(:/cb159e8cdbce40ffb94d3a31cdabcdef)

</details>

HTH

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Maybe it would be also possible to store the info if the PDF (Media File) should be displayed inline or as attachment in the metadata of the file, then it would be possible to decide the per file (That's how it was in Evernote I think).

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I'm having some difficulting understanding the status of this feature request. Has the feature been implimented? If so, how do I see inline PDFs? Thanks for this. Super useful!

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In this topic is a short description.

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Thank you!

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Wanted to circle back and say that the current PDF viewer is great for previewing documents but doesn't really work for inline images since it expands the vertical boundary. Screen shots attached, along with a screenshot of Typora, which handles PDFs in the way I'd hope for.

Thanks for all the work work that went into this update. Just wanted to report on this use case.

Typora

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Hi,
Was just wondering how did you make joplin show two notes at the same time. I'm referring to the last image. At the top a note with two panes - markdown and viewer, at the bottom the 'Wisdome of the crowd'.. How did you make it appear below the note?
Thanks in advance and have a good day

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I think it's just one note with a table.

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thank you for this solution.
It works, but I experienced some strange behaviors with removing empty lines or adding whitespaces/tabstops.
@laurent maybe you have an idea, what's causing these issues?

  1. If there is no empty line between </summary> and the link, the PDF markdown link won't be parsed.
    Example: 
<details close>
<summary>Show pdf ...</summary>
[linkname](:/cb159e8cdbce40ffb94d3a31cdabcdef)
</details>
  1. If there are spaces or tabs in the same line before the link, the PDF markdown link won't be parsed.
    Example: 
<details close>
<summary>Show pdf ...</summary>
      [linkname](:/cb159e8cdbce40ffb94d3a31cdabcdef)
</details>
  1. the markdown link without square brackets (before the parentheses), doesn't work.
    AFAIK that's invalid markdown, therefore I wonder that this example should work - Am I wrong?
    Example: 
<details close>
<summary>Show pdf ...</summary>

(:/cb159e8cdbce40ffb94d3a31cdabcdef)
</details>