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The Islandora Paged Content module is required by the Book Solution Pack and Newspaper Solution Pack modules, to provide numbered, individual pages as objects. This module takes files in TIFF format, and is able to create several kinds of derivatives depending on the type of collection they are being ingested into. Solution Packs that use the Paged Content module are referred to below as 'Paged Content collections'.

Dependencies

• Islandora
• Tuque
• The Large Image Solution Pack is required to create image derivatives

• Ghostscript is used to compile PDF derivatives into a single document

  Basic Collection Solution Pack

Optional

• pdftotext
• pdfinfo

Install in Ubuntu/Debian with sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

Provisions

• The Book Solution Pack or Newspaper Solution Pack are examples of Paged Content collections. It is advisable to install one of those solution packs, and check their pages for additional dependencies.

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Few configuration options exist for the paged content module out-of-the-box; most of the configuration is associated with the relevant, dependent solution pack (book or newspaper).  A configuration page  at http://path.to.your.site/admin/islandora The configuration page at Administration » Islandora » Solution pack configuration » Paged Content Module (admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/paged_content, and includes ) has the following options:

PDF Derivative Settings

Enter the path to the Ghostscript executable here. This will allow multi-page PDFs to be compiled using each page in the book or newspaper. More information about installing Ghostscript on your server can be found at the official project website, http://www.ghostscript.com/.

Image Added

There is also an option to set the page label to the page's sequence number. On ingest, each page's label will be set to its sequence number. When reordering pages, all of the page labels will be updated with the new sequence numbers.

Content Models, Prescribed Datastreams and Forms

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