Best way to display PDF in drupal as a slideshow I'm looking to display a PDF on a page, but don't want to outsource the hosting to scribd or slideshare, or one of the other players.  My constraints are basically...


I want to host it on my site.
I want it to look like a slideshow (can click to go forward, navigation backward, etc.)
I want most users to have whatever they need to access it already (ie, if it's SWF, fine.)
I want the whole PDF to be downloadable easily, as a PDF (rather than SWF, etc).


Does anything fit that bill?  I saw on stack overflow, at one time the answer was no.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/291813/best-way-to-embed-pdf-in-html

But wondering if the Drupal way can offer any better.
Drupal is essentially a framework, it can't do anything that a 'normal' website can't do. This includes displaying PDF files in the format you want.

The only way is to use Flash (as suggested on the SO post you linked to). This would involve either building the SWF file yourself using Adobe's tools, or using one of the dozens of tools available to build a navigable SWF from a PDF file (e.g. SWFTools).

Drupal only comes into the equation when you actually want to display the Flash file.

Some purists might actually argue that this is a bad idea anyway; you should probably allow your users to read PDF files using the software that they have chosen for that particular job. 

If you were trying to DRM your PDF for whatever reason then it might make sense, but as you're providing a download link to the direct file anyway I don't think this applies.