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  • December 1, 2014 at 9:27 am

    #5622

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    Boris de Jong

    Participant

    Hi all!

    The document component is okay for parsing PDF files, but could it be made better? There are hardly any controls or somesuch. Can I choose what third-party plugin handles these documents? Images are handled by lightbox – is there a similar thing for the doc component?

    December 1, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    #5638

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    Michael Beil

    Keymaster

    Hey Boris,

    We’ve used Google PDF displayer in the past, but now we use PDFObject to embed PDFs. Currently these two are the only plausible solutions.

    See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4853898/display-pdf-within-web-browser/4854037#4854037

    December 2, 2014 at 8:32 am

    #5652

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    Boris de Jong

    Participant

    Does this mean the choice is mine, or is it something you devs went for?

    December 2, 2014 at 8:35 am

    #5653

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    Nick Haskins

    Keymaster

    Boris,
    There is no other technology available to display PDF’s on the web. You can either display it through Google’s free PDF viewer, or you can utilize PDF Object. If there were other options we’d happily look into them. Feel free to search on your own but you’ll find the same result that we did.

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