[WebODF] ViewerJS 0.5.5 released, bringing newer pdf.js and parameter options

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Dear WebODF-interested and enthusiasts,

following the release of WebODF 0.5.5, also ViewerJS, the WebODF-based 
Open Source document viewer for webpages, is available in an updated version.

It bumps both webodf.js to the latest version 0.5.5 as well as pdf.js to the 
latest stable v1.0.907.

ViewerJS now tries to identify the type of the document by a HEAD request to 
the server. If that fails, it falls back to guessing the type from a possible 
fileextension at the end of the url, but now also dropping a possible search 
string. More, the type can be defined by a parameter, see below for more.

Some customization is now possible, by passing parameters in the search part 
of the query. Supported are:
* "zoom": initial zoom ("auto", "page-actual", "page-width", float value)
* "title": title to display instead of filename guessed from the url
* "type": overrule type of the file, identified by extension

Example:
	/ViewerJS/index.html?zoom=page-width&type=odp&title=Slides#some/slides/123

Also have black pages with some PDFs been fixed 
(https://github.com/kogmbh/ViewerJS/issues/88).


ViewerJS continues to be the candidate for embedding ODF or PDF files directly 
in webpages, without any external server dependencies, just done with HTML, 
CSS and Javascript. 

Please visit http://viewerjs.org/ to learn more about ViewerJS, play with the 
examples at http://viewerjs.org/examples/, and give it a deployment in your 
webpages. And then spread your knowledge among your peers :)

Or try the "bower" package, listed with "viewerjs" at the central bower 
registry. We are interested to get feedback on it, please tell if it works for 
you or what could be improved.

If you use another package/dependency manager, please tell us how we can 
support it. There is currently a special repo set up for such managers which 
contains the files of the ViewerJS build, so any needed metadata file could be 
placed there:
	https://github.com/kogmbh/ViewerJS_release

Cheers
Friedrich

PS: WordPress users will be interested in the ViewerJS WordPress plugin, 
available on http://viewerjs.org as well.

-- 
Friedrich W. H. Kossebau // KO GmbH
http://kogmbh.com/legal/