Scribd iPaper is now available

I’ve added a new plugin to PersonalLog, built by me, which will allow simple insertion of iPaper documents. It is unlikely that I will ever integrate this into PersonalLog (along with the other video embed codes) because this one requires an additional piece of JavaScript code, and it would be inefficient to load that code on every blog.

Here’s what you do.

1. Upload the document to Scribd, or find a document

2. Go to the document’s page (e.g. http://www.scribd.com/doc/6184541/Minutes-for-September-22-2008).

Scroll down until you see “More Info”. Click on it.

3. Make note of the URL

The URL now contains all the information you need to embed the document.

The all digit portion of the URL (before the question mark) is the document id.

The part starting with “key-” and containing a weird jumble of alphanumeric characters is the access key.

4. Use the [ipaper] embed code

First, make sure that you’ve activated the “Simpler iPaper” plugin. (I’m planning on releasing this as open source.)

Then, use the following syntax:

[ipaper id="document id" accesskey="access key"]

For instance, to embed the document above, I would use:

[ipaper id="6184541" accesskey="key-1krukpl84ovn1aktdcyp"]

I hope this is helping you to embed documents in your blog!

Tip: use height=”a number” and/or width=”a number” to customize the embed!