Dealing with long/large documents

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6/7/2008 2:06:53 PM
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Thomas F. Heringer

Dealing with long/large documents

Is there any suggestions for how to deal with extremely long documents? Say in the area of 325 to 350 pages? Is it possible to create a CSS style sheet for just a single document, such as I have described. If so then how do I get it into mojoPortal without harming the rest of the sheets. Again is there any suggestions in this area. Also is there any other information you would need to know to give me advice?

6/8/2008 6:11:01 AM
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Re: Dealing with long/large documents

Its not a good idea to show more than 1 page of content in a single web page. You definitely do not want to show 300+ pages in a single web page. If you want to give them all that at once I would create a .pdf file and let the user download it.

In the future I plan to add support for pageing into the Html Content feature so that you could define pages within an article. Still, 300+ pages is more like a book than an article. Very unliikely that anyone will ever read all of it in a web browser. With a .pdf the user can download it and read it without being connected to the web and/or could import it into a reading device like the Amazon Kindle.

If you're going to publish a lot of large documents I would go with the .pdf approach. You could either upload a .pdf to your server and link to it, or use the mojoPortal shared files features to upload and share it.

Hope it helps,

Joe

6/8/2008 8:33:36 AM
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Thomas F. Heringer

Re: Dealing with long/large documents

This is 300 pages, but it is broken down into chapters. Initially what I did with it is to create the pages for each chapter (90) and an index. Then I went back and hid the pages so that the only thing visible was the chapter index. Then I figured that they really needed there own site, simply from the sheer size of it, so I created a subdomain and moved them all there. I have had to format the chapters with the editor, but was wondering if that was possible using CSS? Some of the chapters are a little more then 1 or 2 letter size pages and some of them are maybe 4 or 5 pages. The index has a discription of what is in each chapter. I have had no real problems in formating, but was hoping that I may be able to have each page format appear the same without having to go through each page. If you need more information  let me know.

 

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