Recommended way to embed PDF in HTML?

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Daniel Silveira picture Daniel Silveira · Nov 15, 2008 · Viewed 1.5M times · Source

What is the recommended way to embed PDF in HTML?

  • iFrame?
  • Object?
  • Embed?

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.

Answer

lubos hasko picture lubos hasko · Nov 15, 2008

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.

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

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

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