# OneBox common document formats

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-common-document-formats/70210
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [17. September 2017 um 08:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-common-document-formats/70210 "2017-09-17T08:11:05Z")
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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [17. September 2017 um 08:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-common-document-formats/70210/2 "2017-09-17T08:34:17Z")

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This is a duplicate of an older feature request:

> [@Oneboxing of PDFs and other attachments](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-of-pdfs-and-other-attachments/55972):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Custom visualization for specific attachment types](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-visualization-for-specific-attachment-types/14941/16): Putting this out there as a feature request. I’d love to see the ability to onebox PDFs and other attachments along the lines of google docs oneboxing. Or perhaps even simply a file attachment appearance like you’d get using the file upload, ideally also with the file type and size provided. Right now putting a PDF URL on its own line presents as a raw URL. Very 1990s. As my millenial colleague told me recently,…

It’s already implemented for PDF files, adding this feature for other file types would require shipping additional parsers for these files with Discourse.

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