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PDF Renderer


This plugin is a renderer which can be used for viewing PDF documents from the Taverna workbench. The following steps are required to install this plugin:

  • Click on Tools > Plugin Manager
  • Click on the 'Find New Plugins' button and add a New Plugin Site by entering "MCISB" as site name and "http://dbk-ed.mib.man.ac.uk/taverna/1.5/plugins/" as the site URL then click OK
  • Click on PDF Renderer followed by install. This plugin will now be downloaded and installed

This R data analysis workflow uses the PDFViewer plugin to display its PDF document output as shown below. To enable the display of PDF documents in Taverna, the data must be tagged with a MIME type of 'application/pdf'.