Download link on embedded view

[martgnz]

I'm not sure if this is the correct place for it, but anyway:

It would be great if the next iteration of the viewer had a download link in the embedded view of the document, so any reader could download the file directly. At the moment you need to make it fullscreen and then find the link, so is not easy to find.

Example:

[reefdog]

@martgnz I originally failed to list it in #10 (and the mockup doesn't show it), but I'd envisioned putting the download link in the dismissable sidebar panel. Doesn't seem like something people need access to often enough to warrant primary placement. (Arguably, neither does the permalink.) What do you think?

[martgnz]

I'm not sure. From my experience working with DocumentCloud on a newsroom a lot of the people who comment want access to the original document, and at least in the actual UI, the link is difficult to find.

In the actual interface the link is hidden beyond a fullscreen icon, so you don't expect to find the source there.

If in this case the sidebar is easily reachable and contains multiple options. I would say yes, put it there.

But I guess that everything that makes even easier to the reader to find the original document has a strong value, not only in the perspective of number of users that will download the document, but regarding the transparency of the newsroom with their readers.

What I think that it's an error is to do same as in the actual UI. To make difficult to find the link to the PDF and to hide it in a complicated menu. Is the download link placed in the actual sidebar preview so we can test it?

[reefdog]

Is the download link placed in the actual sidebar preview so we can test it?

Not yet. When I've written the panel, I'll put a note in here.

I plan to make it easily discoverable, but without the "don't bother with the viewer, just download the original" implication of too-primary placement.

[martgnz]

Ok, I will test it once is done.

That's nice. If you already know this I guess that it's going to be easier than in the actual viewer ;)