PDFs in a slideshow folder now play alongside images and Word documents:
a one-page PDF is shown whole, a longer one fits the width and scrolls
through its pages during docInterval (first 30 pages - rendering a huge
PDF for a few seconds on screen isn't worth the time and memory).
- kiosk-app/pdf-render.mjs renders pages to canvases with pdf.js
(pdfjs-dist ^6.3.289, new kiosk-app dependency): no viewer toolbar, and
the slideshow's existing auto-scroll works on it. pdf.js >= 4.2.67 is
required (CVE-2024-4367: older versions could run script embedded in a
crafted PDF); isEvalSupported:false too. It's a module because pdf.js
only ships as one - confirmed to load (with its worker) from file:// in
Electron 44.
- Hands pdf.js a copy of the bytes: it transfers the buffer it's given,
which would break the cached copy the next time round.
- slideshow.js lists .pdf as a document type; the title-request handler
serves any listed non-image item (still only from that folder).
- provision_install_app now copies kiosk-app/*.mjs as well - without it
pdf-render.mjs would never reach an installed kiosk.
Tested with the real main.js on Electron 44.5.1 under Xvfb + Openbox,
app files copied with provision_install_app's own glob: a photo, a
one-page PDF, a three-page PDF and a .docx played in order, twice round;
the one-page PDF shown whole, the three-page one scrolled through all
pages. Offline bundle rebuilt with pdfjs-dist (437 MB total, +22 MB).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cjz8a58eB5P9sUweqd3NHm
A slideshow folder now plays .docx files alongside images: a one-page
document is shown whole (letterboxed like a photo); a longer one fills
the width and scrolls smoothly top to bottom during its docInterval
(new slideshow.json key, default 2x interval). Word's ~$ lock files are
skipped; changed documents (by mtime) are re-read on the minute refresh.
- kiosk-app/docx-render.js: the docx-preview rendering now shared by
docview.html and slideshow.html. Each render gets its own class prefix
and keeps its styles in its own container, so two documents crossfading
can't restyle each other. "One page" is judged by content fitting the
paper height, not section count - docx-preview only starts a new
section at explicit page breaks, so a long unbroken document is one
tall section.
- Document bytes are fetched on demand: the page sets its title to a
request, slideshow.js answers via executeJavaScript - only for a .docx
in that slideshow's own current listing (no file-read API exposed to
pages; the preload is shared by every site).
Tested with the real main.js on Electron 44.5.1 under Xvfb + Openbox on a
folder of 2 images + a 1-page and a long .docx (+ a ~$ lock file): order,
crossfades, whole-page fit, scroll to the end, lock file skipped; the
single-.docx site still renders. The request handler answered a listed
.docx and refused /etc/passwd, a listed image, and a .docx outside the
folder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cjz8a58eB5P9sUweqd3NHm
Slideshow: a site whose path is a local folder (/home/kiosk/photos/, or
any existing directory) plays its images full-screen instead of showing
Chromium's directory listing. kiosk-app/slideshow.js maps the folder URL
to slideshow.html (resolveSiteUrl - used where main.js loads a view and
where attachView re-checks the configured URL) and pushes the image list
into the page from the main process (the page has no fs access), re-read
every minute so added/removed images show up without a restart. Natural
file-name order, crossfade, letterboxed by default; optional
slideshow.json in the folder: interval, shuffle, fit, transition,
recursive. provision_install_app already copies kiosk-app/*.js/*.html,
so new installs and Advanced -> Upgrade pick it up.
Electron: ^42.0.0 -> ^44.0.0. Electron supports the latest three majors
(44/43/42), so 42 drops out when 45 ships. Checked the 43/44 breaking
changes against kiosk-app: nothing it uses changed (no clipboard,
safeStorage, net.request, utilityProcess; BrowserView is deprecated but
still present through 46). The offline bundle builder now retries
Electron's install.js download, which crashes outright if a large
download is cut off mid-stream.
Tested with the real main.js on Electron 44.5.1 under Xvfb + Openbox:
slideshow fills the screen, cycles in order (01, 02, 10) skipping a .txt
file, honours slideshow.json, and an image added mid-run joined the
rotation after the refresh. Offline bundle rebuilt with Electron 44.5.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cjz8a58eB5P9sUweqd3NHm
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