Embed the PDF in a webpage without using the built-in PDF viewer

Question

Currently I am using the standard way to embed an pdf to the browser, however, the built-in pdf viewer for my target browser is not working as expected. I would like to forc

Answer 1

Check out PDFObject which is a Javascript library to embed PDFs in HTML files. It handles browser compatibility pretty well and will most likely work on IE8.

In your HTML, you could set up a div to display the PDFs:

Then, you can have Javascript code to embed a PDF in that div:

var pdf = new PDFObject({
  url: "https://sample.pdf",
  id: "pdfRendered",
  pdfOpenParams: {
    view: "FitH"
  }
}).embed("pdfRenderer");

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