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.
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We have an app which launches Electron browser. In the Electron browser we load a third party website which has a link.
When we view this site in the Chrome or IE browsers, clicking on this link it renders a PDF in an iFrame but for electron browser it shows a save file dialogue. We want to display this PDF in the electron browser just the same way it works for Chrome and IE. As it is a third party website we don't have control over rendering or loading PDF file or we are not getting any events related with loading of this PDF.
For this scenario, if there is no way to display PDF in electron then it is OK to block it so the Save file dialogue will not show.(This app is actually in the KIOSK so we don't want to save a file if it doesn't render in browser.)
Thanks in advance for your comments!
Here is a discussion on an issue almost identical to yours. The answer does a decent job explaining why the download option is appearing. As for preventing the pdf from being downloaded, try using the <embed> tag as it detects compatibility. So embed the pdf using that tag and then load the html into the <iframe>. Here is some example code and description of how to set that up.
Is there any setting for printing silently with Adobe Reader? I want to print pdf without print dialog box in chrome?
You can't... at least not with Adobe Reader.
First, Chrome no longer supports the Adobe Reader for displaying PDF so the PDF will either open in the built-in Chrome viewer or will download and open in Adobe Reader depending on your settings.
Second, the JavaScript methods to control printing from Adobe Reader are privileged functions that require user permission to execute.
You can get around these limitations but it requires that the recipient of the PDF establish trust with either a digital certificate that you sign the PDF with or trust your domain. But in all cases, the user must opt-in before printing will execute silently... so... it's not exactly silent.
Using an Android phone, when i click on a pdf link (i.e. example.com/abc.pdf), Chrome downloads it. I want Chrome to directly open it with the default pdf viewer of the user. So i think i need to use:
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents
I do not want to force user to open it with a specific app (i.e. adobe reader) so i do not know the package name.
Any help?
If it is not possible, how to open it with adobe reader?
many hours of trying...and at last...
open pdf
I'm outputting a pdf which has been made with scribus, and in all browsers except for chrome it outputs fine, however with chrome the letters are cut off and lower than usual. I found that disabling the chrome pdf viewer fixes the issue locally. But what about users who do not have it disabled? Is there some way I can make adobe reader show it instead of the chrome pdf viewer in my code?
Any help is appreciated,
Thanks
Edit: I can't make the user download the pdf as it is somewhat a preview before they send it in.
One option would be to use a Content-Disposition header to force the PDF to download as an attachment. When the user clicked on the downloaded file, it would then open in their registered PDF viewer rather than in Chrome.
I ended up flattening the pdf using the flatten option, it unified the result accross all browsers.
I have a link in a pdf-document (PDF1), which is embedded in a browser instance. Or let's say the Adobe Reader is embedded in a browser window.
In this pdf-document (PDF2) is a link to a servlet, which view opens another pdf-file.
Now the new pdf-document is opened in a embedded Adobe Reader in the same browser window. How can this document (PDF2) be opened in a new browser window with a new embedded Adobe Reader?
Does this depend on the editor tool used for the generation of the pdf-document?
PS: I am not creating the first one (PDF1), but I am faced with the question, how to open the second one (PDF2) in a new window, so the first document is not "lost" and has to be reopened again.
I think you can't do this without changing Acrobat Reader. What happens is this:
You download the first file.
IE notices "PDF" and embeds Acrobat Reader. The reader gets the URL as an argument. Despite the fact that AR renders the document inside of an IE window, AR is now in full control of the document. So when you click on a link, it's AR (and not IE) who processes the event and downloads the second document.
I suggest to try Foxit Reader or some other PDF reader which doesn't use a "single document" UI. Foxit uses tabs and can display several PDF documents.
They are faster, too and more comfortable to use.
[EDIT] Actually, AR calls the OS to handle the link. You can achieve the same effect by copy an URL into the clipboard and then click on the "Start" button and "Run...". Paste the URL into the dialog. Or open a command line prompt and paste the URL at the prompt.
The OS will start downloading the file, determine the type and then directly invoke the application which is registered for that type. IE does the same thing which has caused some of the security holes in the past (site offers IE some data which seems to be of type XXX but is in fact a virus. IE will call the OS to execute it and user wonders how he got infected).