Michael Eskin Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 (edited) Some tunes for the weekend: "A Dozen Lovely Waltzes" PDF tunebooks with both Jeffries and Wheatstone Anglo Concertina tablature for the newer players. Click the title of any tune to play it: http://michaeleskin.com/tunebooks.html#a_dozen_lovely_walzes Edited July 29, 2023 by eskin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barnert Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 All I see is a medium-sized thumbnail of “Ashokan Farewell.” How do I get past that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Hare Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, David Barnert said: All I see is a medium-sized thumbnail of “Ashokan Farewell.” How do I get past that? Maybe your browser is hung-up in some weird way, and you aren't seeing them, but below the thumbnail, there is a sequence of lines such as: Click to download "A Dozen Lovely Waltzes with Anglo Concertina (Wheatstone) Tablature" Click on the ones which are appropriate for you... Edited July 30, 2023 by lachenal74693 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Taylor Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 So you click on the appropriate download link and a .pdf file is downloaded to your computer. You then click on an unadorned tune title in that .pdf file and lo! you are back in the browser with the ability to play that tune. Neat, but I was surprised that clicking on a piece of apparantly normal text in a .pdf file could fire up a web page. I am not sure that I will ever trust a .pdf file again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barnert Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 10 hours ago, lachenal74693 said: Maybe your browser is hung-up in some weird way, and you aren't seeing them, but below the thumbnail, there is a sequence of lines such as: Click to download "A Dozen Lovely Waltzes with Anglo Concertina (Wheatstone) Tablature" Click on the ones which are appropriate for you... Thanks. Silly me! Since I don’t play any of those diatonic instruments (just wanted to see what waltzes were included and dots for any I didn’t know), I didn’t take a serious look at those links. 1 hour ago, Don Taylor said: Neat, but I was surprised that clicking on a piece of apparantly normal text in a .pdf file could fire up a web page. I am not sure that I will ever trust a .pdf file again! The key is that if you hover (however briefly) over the “apparently normal” text, your cursor becomes a hand with a pointing finger. No help, of course, if you’re using a touchscreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Hare Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 (edited) 90% of the PDF files I produce are designed to be actually printed, not read on-screen. There's not much point selecting a link on a piece of paper - it's not going to work, so I tend not to 'highlight' links in my own PDF files. I guess that as a consequence I don't 'expect' to see links highlighted in PDF files in general? Edited July 31, 2023 by lachenal74693 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Eskin Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 (edited) Once I realized my own share URL system could be used for playback with just few changes to the code, combined with the embedded tune hyperlink system I already had in place for my tunebooks, the whole "Interactive PDF" thing just sort of came to life on it's own. I can appreciate if it creeps some people out. I'm sorry to hear that. I hope more will will appreciate it for what it makes possible. Edited July 31, 2023 by eskin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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