By andyseaton on

Hi there,

I'm working on a website for the restaurant that I have a part time job at. The owners decided recently that they needed a menu overhaul and as such the new menu needs to go up on the site. They got the menu in a PDF from the designers, and I've converted that menu into a JPG with a handy converting tool. Trouble is, the menu is huge, and all my efforts to get it sized suitably to fit the theme I'm using have been in vain. What I want to do is display the menu on a page of its own, without any of the drupal stuff, just a blank page with the menu and perhaps a back button. Is there a way to do this - through .htaccess maybe, as with this the menu could be as big as need be, for people to actually read, then they return to the main body of the site.

I'd appreciate any input you guys might have.

Thanks

Andy

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Comments

splash112’s picture

splash112 commented

Hi,

First comment would is that you should consider complete pages as a jpg image on your site a very bad idea. If they should be readable, they probably should be huge and will consume a lot of bandwith some of your site's users won't have.

If you really want to, you probably could just upload them by ftp to your files directory and link to them. www.mysite.com/files/menu1.jpg

Good luck

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Dave Sandilands’s picture

Dave Sandilands commented

I agree with splash112 about large images.

If you are considering linking to a file, then it would be best kept it as a pdf, which has the advantage of text searching, scrolling, zooming and , if not disabled, printing.

regards

Dave Sandilands

regards

Dave Sandilands
http://bristolwebservices.co.uk

cel4145’s picture

cel4145 commented

Depending on how you have Drupal setup to handle the files folder (normally used with file attachments, profile images/avatars, etc.), you could just put it in there. Files in that location do not display in the Drupal framework.

Alternatively, if the image was available in a node, I would think you could create an alternative theme (or lack there of) within page.tpl.php.

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carlmcdade commented

As mentioned above you can hide parts of a page to make room for a menu as demostrated here. If you are using Drupal 4.6 then you can use the staticHTML module to fit and display external HTML pages and pdf inside of Drupal using an iframe or showing them directly. staticHTML would allow you to maintain a seperate directory of menus and still be able to navigate via Drupal without having to make template changes.

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