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What is the recommended way to embed PDF in HTML?

  • iFrame?
  • Object?
  • Embed?
  • As the PDF viewer included in Firefox is based on the PDF.js viewer, the user potentially won’t even see the difference. So a valid option to provide best and efficient support for the users is to use the built-in PDF viewer of the browser if you are sure one is available and only use PDF.js for uncertain cases (e.g. Users with Internet Explorer).
  • As you simply show an html file, you are free to embed the PDF.js viewer as IFrame, popup or opening it as new window/browser tab. Some more thoughts As current versions of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox already natively support showing PDF files, it could be unnecessary to force the usage of the self-hosted PDF.js viewer as this results in.

What does Adobe say itself about it?

In my case, the PDF is generated on the fly, so it can't be uploaded to a third-party solution prior to flushing it.

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Probably the best approach is to use the PDF.JS library. It's a pure HTML5/JavaScript renderer for PDF documents without any third-party plugins.

If the PDF is an interactive form, it is especially important that the form be recreated in HTML. There are some methods you can try however that will attempt to embed a PDF in your page. Retrieve the URL of your document and use that with one of the following embed methods. Google Doc Viewer (iframe method) Paste the following code into the.

Online demo:http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/web/viewer.html

GitHub:https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

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This is quick, easy, to the point and doesn't require any third-party script:

UPDATE (1/2018):

The Chrome browser on Android no longer supports PDF embeds. You can get around this by using the Google Drive PDF viewer

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You can also use Google PDF viewer for this purpose. As far as I know it's not an official Google feature (am I wrong on this?), but it works for me very nicely and smoothly. You need to upload your PDF somewhere before and just use its URL:

What is important is that it doesn't need a Flash player, it uses JavaScript.

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You do have some control over how the PDF appears in the browser by passing some options in the query string. I was happy to this working, until I realized it does not work in IE8. :(

It works in Chrome 9 and Firefox 3.6, but in IE8 it shows the message 'Insert your error message here, if the PDF cannot be displayed.'

I haven't yet tested older versions of any of the above browsers, though. But here's the code I have anyway in case it helps anyone. This sets the zoom to 85%, removes scrollbars, toolbars and nav panes. I'll update my post if I do come across something that works in IE as well.

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Using both <object> and <embed> will give you a wider breadth of browser compatibility.

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Convert it to PNG via ImageMagick, and display the PNG (quick and dirty).

This is a good option if you need a quick solution, want to avoid cross-browser PDF viewing problems, and if the PDF is only a page or two. Of course, you need ImageMagick installed (which in turn needs Ghostscript) on your webserver, an option that might not be available in shared hosting environments. There is also a PHP plugin (called imagick) that works like this but it has it's own special requirements.

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Have a look for this code- To embed the PDF in HTML


FDView combines PDF2SWF (which itself is based on xpdf) with an SWF viewer so you can convert and embed PDF documents on the fly on your server.

xpdf is not a perfect PDF converter. If you need better results then Ghostview has some ability to convert PDF documents into other formats which you may be able to more easily build a Flash viewer for.

But for simple PDF documents, FDView should work reasonably well.

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Our problem is that for legal reasons we are not allowed to temporarily store a PDF on the hard disk. In addition, the entire page should not be reloaded when displaying a PDF as Preview in the Browser.

First we tried PDF.jS. It worked with Base64 in the viewer for Firefox and Chrome. However, it was unacceptably slow for our PDF. IE/Edge didn't work at all.

We therefore tried it with a Base64 string in an HTML object tag. This again didn't work for IE/Edge (maybe the same problem as with PDF.js). In Chrome/Firefox/Safari again no problem. That's why we chose a hybrid solution. IE/Edge we use an IFrame and for all other browsers the object-tag.
The IFrame solution would of course also work for Chrome and co. The reason why we didn't use this solution for Chrome is that although the PDF is displayed correctly, Chrome makes a new request to the server as soon as you click on 'download' in the preview. The required hidden-field pdfHelperTransferData (for sending our form data needed for PDF generation) is no longer set because the PDF is displayed in an IFrame. For this feature/bug see Chrome sends two requests when downloading a PDF (and cancels one of them).

Now the problem children IE9 and IE10 remain. For these we gave up a preview solution and simply send the document by clicking the preview button as a download to the user (instead of the preview). We have tried a lot but even if we had found a solution the extra effort for this tiny part of users would not have been worth the effort. You can find our solution for the download here: Download PDF without refresh with IFrame.

Our Javascript:

Our HTML:

To check the browser type for IE/Edge see here: How can I detect Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Edge using JavaScript? I hope these findings will save someone else the time.

George MaharisGeorge Maharis
  1. Create a container to hold your PDF

  2. Tell PDFObject which PDF to embed, and where to embed it

  3. You can optionally use CSS to specify visual styling, including dimensions, border, margins, etc.

source : https://pdfobject.com/

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Scribd no longer require you to host your documents on their server. If you create an account with them so you get a publisher ID. It only takes a few lines of JavaScript code to load up PDF files stored on your own server.

For more details, see Developer Tools.

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One of the options you should consider is Notable PDF
It has a free plan unless you are planning on doing real-time online collaboration on pdfs

Embed the following iframe to any html and enjoy the results:

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PdfToImageServlet using ImageMagick's convert command.

Usage example:<img src='/webAppDirectory/PdfToImageServlet?pdfFile=/usr/share/cups/data/default-testpage.pdf'>

PLAPLA

You can use the relative location of the saved pdf like this:

Example1

Example2

<iframe src='example.pdf' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>

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To stream the file to the browser, see Stack Overflow question How to stream a PDF file as binary to the browser using .NET 2.0 - note that, with minor variations, this should work whether you're serving up a file from the file system or dynamically generated.

With that said, the referenced MSDN article takes a rather simplistic view of the world, so you may want to read Successfully Stream a PDF to browser through HTTPSFree surveillance software downloads for windows 7. as well for some of the headers you may need to supply.

Using that approach, an iframe is probably the best way to go. Have one webform that streams the file, and then put the iframe on another page with its src attribute set to the first form.

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GalacticCowboyGalacticCowboy

This is the way I did with AXIOS and Vue.js:

add urlPDF dynamically to HTML:

DespertawebDespertaweb
  1. Construct a blob of the input PDF bytes
  2. Use an iframe and PDF.js patched with this cross browserworkaround

The URI for the iframe should look something like this:

Now FF, Chrome, IE 11, and Edge all display the PDF in a viewer in the iframe passed via standard blob URI in the URL.

fartwhiffartwhif

If you don't want to host PDF.JS on your own, you could try DocDroid. It is similar to the Google Drive PDF viewer but allows custom branding.

mondaymonday

I found this works just fine and the browser handles it in firefox. I have not checked IE..

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I have an auto generated PDF file by itext and I need to display that PDF file in HTML. My question is: How to display a local PDF file in HTML using pdf.js? Should that PDF file be generated by some standards?

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Implementation of a PDF file in your HTML web-page is very easy.

Embed

Make sure to change the width and height for your needs.Good luck!

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I use Google Docs embeddable PDF viewer. The docs don't have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they do have to be available online.

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If you want to use pdf.js, I suggest you to read THIS

You can also upload your pdf somewhere (like Google Drive) and use its URL in a iframe

or

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you can display easly in a html page like this

harun ugurharun ugur

In html page for pc is easy to implement

but pdf show in mobile by this code is not possible you must need a plugin

if you have not responsive your site. Then above code pdf not show in mobile but you can put download option after the code

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Portable Document Format (PDF).

  • Any Browser « Use _Embeddable Google Document Viewer to embed the PDF file in iframe.

  • Only for chrome browser « Chrome PDF viewer using plugin. pluginspage=http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

Example Sippet:

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I've had something similar before and used normally tags

but it's interesting to find out some other ways as above!

DirWolfDirWolf

The simplest way is to use,

and if its still getting downloaded instead of viewing, check the server response header, it should have, Content-Disposition:Inline and not, Content-Disposition:Attachment.

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Using Javascript, it is possible to display a PDF file in HTML via Mozilla's PDF.JS library. See here for a demo.

There is also a PDF Viewer Javascript plugin to embed PDF files. Here is a demo. (the plugin is not free)

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The element is supported by all browsers and defines an embedded object within an HTML document.

Bottom line: OBJECT is Good, EMBED is Old. Beside's IE's PARAM tags, any content between OBJECT tags will get rendered if the browser doesn't support OBJECT's referred plugin, and apparently, the content gets http requested regardless if it gets rendered or not. Reference

Working code: https://www.w3schools.com/code/tryit.asp?filename=G7L8BK6XC0A6

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