Embed a PDF file in an html page

Question

I am trying to embed a PDF document in a code page. I have a PDF that is a reference guide for my Quickbase and I want to use this rather than the standard Quickbase help pages. I want the PDF to open in browser rather than downloading.

I have played with various methods to embed the PDF in the page but all i get is a blank grey box where the PDF should be when i open that page. AM i doing something wrong or is this just not possible in QB?

Below is an example of an HTML method I have tried to display the PDF

<object data="myfile.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="100%"> <p>It appears you don't have a PDF plugin for this browser. No biggie... you can <a href="myfile.pdf">click here to download the PDF file.</a></p> </object>

diegomendoza1 · Answer

What browser are you using? I just plugged in your code and it opens right up with IE and a link in firefox to download and chrome displays the big gray box. I had this issue before and it was driving me nuts in chrome. Here is what i did:

In your chrome browser type: chrome://plugins/

Hit enter

Looks for Chrome PDF viewer and disable it.

Now try again it should work in Chrome.

Hope this helps. If it doesn't i have other possible solutions.

garymcroberts · Answer

It is in Chrome that i'm having the issues, but also in IE too.&nbsp;&nbsp;I"m not bothered about IE, as long as I can get it working in Chrome, so I'll try what you suggest. Thanks!

garymcroberts · Answer

This does work now in Chrome, which is awesome, however I have about 100 users in my application and having them all go in an disable plugins is not really the best option.&nbsp;&nbsp;Do you have any other suggestion that would not involve the user to do anything to make it work?

diegomendoza1 · Answer

Ok Try this:Go to: https://docs.google.com/viewerPlug in your URL of where your PDF is hosted. It should generate you an iframe.I added a sample code and another code that works with all my browsers. See here: http://pastie.org/8878179Hopefully this will work for you

archiveuser · Answer

Hi,&nbsp;&nbsp;I wonder do you have any suggetion about pdf extraction ( http://www.pqscan.com/extract-text/from-pdf-csharp.html ) process? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.&nbsp;&nbsp;Best regards,&nbsp;&nbsp;Pan

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