What is the easiest way I can use to open a PDF file from a url or a library that can render the PDF directly from the url instead of using webview.?
Currently using google drive embedded pdf viewer. I am looking for the best options without webview.
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I want to know that is there any way i can use to change the behaviour of download button on
google chrome built-in pdf viewer plugin.
I want to check some conditions to make sure the user can download the pdf file when user click 'download' button on pdf viewer.
So I need to execute some js code before the pdf viewer start to download/stop to download the pdf file.
I could not find any document about the API for google chrome pdf viewer...
If any way I can do it? thanks for your help!!!
I would like to make a web app using Google Apps Script where users get pages of a pdf shown one by one.
Using a pdf library I can get the base64 data of each page of the pdf. But using none of these ways for displaying it works:
<object type="application/pdf" data="data:application/pdf;base64,...">
<embed src="data:application/pdf;base64,...">
<iframe src="data:application/pdf;base64,...">
Displaying an image using <img src="data:image/png;base64,..."> does work.
All mentioned methods do display the single pdf page when putting it in an html-document.
I thought it had to do with the https requirement mentioned on https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/html/restrictions, but looking at How can I refer to a Data URI in https? I learned the data URI should be https (since the Google web app is served over https).
Any suggestion, like forcing the data URI to be 'interpreted' as an https-URI OR converting the pdf page to an image (not prefered, since I figure it would produce unnecessary overhead), is welcome.
Since the single page pdfs aren't needed to be saved like that, saving each page on Google Drive and using its file-URL would also produce overhead (and is thus not prefered either).
If your pdf is located on your Google Drive, you can embed it with the preview link:
<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/XXX/preview"></iframe>
Whereby XXX is to be replaced with the file id.
Make sure to share the pdf as Anyone on the Internet with this link can view.
I have a PDF file having embedded documents attached.
I am not able to download the attachments or view the attachments embedded within the PDF file from Chrome.
However, I am able to download the attachments if i right click on the link and use 'save link as' menu to save the file.
What should I do ?
You're already doing it. The native Chrome PDF viewer simply doesn't support attachments. You can't even see that they're there. You have to download the file and open it in a more capable viewer.
Is there anyway to embed a fillable pdf form on a web page that the viewer would be able to fill out and send with the Adobe submit function? without having to click through or download the actual pdf
thanks
By default, the Adobe Reader will display a PDF in Protected Mode when it's viewed in a browser, for security reasons it's basically not interactive. Users can add your domain to a trusted host and then the PDF becomes interactive.
However, you can't really count on the PDF being opened in an Adobe viewer (Reader or Acrobat) when it's opened in a browser even when an Adobe viewer is installed on the machine and set as the default handler for that file type. The most common browsers have PDF viewers built in that just don't function in the same way as their Adobe counterparts.
You're really much better off linking to the PDF form in a way that forces the PDF to download (through .htaccess or something) and open in the default handler.
When I click on a link in a page, a PDF opens. I need to validate the contents of this PDF file using Selenium in C#.
I'm able to handle this in Firefox 25(using pdf.js). In firefox, the contents of this pdf are displayed in html and hence, using isTextPresent, I am able to validate if the pdf contents are correct.
But, though Chrome opens the pdf in my browser, it does not show the pdf contents as separate elements. Is there any plugin/ setting change that can be done for me to view the pdf as html in Chrome browsewr
PDF.js is also available for Chrome - see PDF Viewer in the Chrome Web Store.
I suggest to load the PDF using the following URL: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/content/web/viewer.html?file=<URL-encoded version of PDF file's location>.
The reason for explicitly putting the URL as shown before is that if the PDF url is visited before the extension is loaded, then the default PDF behavior is triggered (in Chromium, the file is downloaded, in Chrome, it's displayed using Chrome's built-in PDF Viewer).
After the PDF.js is loaded, you can directly type the URL for a PDF file in the omnibox, the extension automatically detects PDF files and renders the result (based on MIME-type).