Boostnote: Inline display of PDF files

[daeh]

I'm a new user -- this software & the development philosophy look awesome. I wanted to check if inline display of PDFs is planned. I'm currently using evernote as a lab notebook and my typical use revolves heavily around embedding graphs/plots into notebooks, and those figures are usually vector PDFs. Is there hope that boostnote (like evernote) will be able to display PDF files in a note, just like other image formats?
Edit: WRT multipage PDFs, I don't have a strong personal preference of the best way to handle these. Evernote's functionality is to give users an option to display all the pages in the note or collapse them down to a linked thumbnail. Having the option on a per-file basis where the user's choice is stored in the note's metadata is nice, but very secondary to being able to view PDF graphics inline. As a default, I imagine either showing only a link or a thumbnail of the first page is good. If all the pages were necessarily displayed it wouldn't work to have >1 long multipage PDF in a note (you'd have to scroll past the full 100 pages of the first document to get to the second file)

Thanks!

Edit: Adding screenshots of evernote (the desired behavior) and boostnote handling the same PDF figure.

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[Flexo013]

Glad you like Boostnote!

You are correct that PDFs currently cannot be displayed within a note. They can merely be linked, to then be opened in a PDF viewer.

Adding the feature where we display/embed PDF files within a Markdown note would be a good improvement to Boostnote. So we can use this GitHub issue to direct development efforts here.

There are a few things you can do to increase the chances of this feature being added:

• Add an image to your original question displaying what this would look like for an image PDF
• Maybe also add an image or description of how we should handle PDFs with multiple pages
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