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Photo and PDF viewer

Open a bulletin, flyer or menu full screen from any button, and let DoorStep turn the links in it into buttons.

Any button, banner, card or photo can open a photo or PDF full screen, like this week’s bulletin, a flyer or the café menu. People can zoom and scroll through it, and buttons along the bottom take them to whatever the file mentions: the sign-up form, the pastor’s email, the giving page.

Add a file to a button #

  1. Pick the buttonOpen any button’s settings and set When tapped to Show a photo or PDF (full screen).
  2. Upload the fileChoose a JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP or PDF, up to 20 MB.
  3. Wait a momentDoorStep reads the file and adds buttons for what it finds (see below).
  4. Check the buttonsRename, reorder or delete them, then publish.

Viewer title is the heading at the top of the viewer. Leave it blank to use the button’s label.

When you upload a file, DoorStep looks through it for:

  • Links in a PDF, including email and phone links.
  • Web addresses and email addresses written in the text, even in scanned pages and phone photos.
  • QR codes, even slightly tilted ones.

Each one becomes a button along the bottom of the viewer, named after the words next to it in the file, like Email Pastor Mike, Register or Give online. It won’t add the same link twice.

Updated the file?

Upload the new version, or click 🔍 Find links to look again. Buttons you haven’t renamed are refreshed; buttons you’ve renamed are left alone.

Buttons along the bottom #

Under Buttons along the bottom, each button has:

  • Button text.
  • When tapped: a link, phone call, text, email and so on, just like other buttons.
  • PDF page: which page of a PDF the button belongs to. While someone reads page 2, only page 2’s buttons show. 0 shows a button on every page.

Add your own with + Add button, for example a “Give” button on every page.

Good to know #

  • Files are stored with your church’s account, not inside the page, so even a large PDF doesn’t slow the page down. The first time someone opens a PDF, it takes a moment to draw.
  • Reading text from photos and scans is very good, but not perfect. Glance over the buttons it made, especially email addresses.
  • For a new bulletin each week, replace the file on the same button and publish. Your tags and links stay the same.

Still stuck? Ask whoever set up DoorStep for your church, and mention this article: Photo and PDF viewer.