Quick description - My company has a webpage that we use for responding to emails and assigning them to people (team inbox basically). The page converts all attachments (that it can) to .pdf files and each attachment/page gets converted as it's own separate .pdf so we can navigate the pages easier (I guess? At least there's a way to merge them into one file, but that opens in a new tab). These .pdf files are displayed in-line. Currently I have to use another browser for this page, due to Firefox not supporting in-line PDFs. Can anyone please advise if they have found a way to view in-line .pdfs within Firefox? Thanks in advance.
See these pics for reference -
In-line .PDFs displaying in Edge (Chromium)
Firefox not displaying
Firefox actually supports embedding PDFs in <iframe>. So this might be a problem with how this web app is written.
This example page shows it working in Firefox: https://www.w3docs.com/tools/code-editor/1077
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Is it possible to access the DOM of a embedded PDF file opened in Chrome?
If you simply open the DevTools in Chrome, only the EMBED tag is visible:
But there is a mouse over PDF file opened in Chrome and right-click => code view, then a completely different page code opens:
Can I get access to it?
Thank you in advance!
Yeah so it looks like you've got multiple documents on a page. Its similar to iFrames in web design. I'm not sure 100% because I cant look through the link.
But I'd highly recommend downloading the PDF as a file, then using ADOBE Pro's library to scrape or w/e with the PDF functions. You eliminate the whole aspect of timing, page loads, and page changes, when you get a direct link to a pdf, and then manipulate the data on the user or cloud PC.
I created a browser extension that lets you look up words in Wikipedia or Wiktionary without needing to open a new tab ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-lookup/ , almost done porting to Chrome). It is very useful when you are doing research and come across a word you don't know or want to know more about. The only thing is, a lot of research content is in PDF format. A long time ago (~2013ish) I had an older version of the app based on the old Firefox add-on framework and that did let iframes show up over pdf documents but this has not been the case for many years. I don't think the extension is even recognized in pdf documents, I get "Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist" and there is no extension content script on the pdf page. So, my question is, is it possible to put an iframe over a pdf document? Do I need to work on the background side, and if so, how? Thanks.
Is there any way to modify texts in PDF on Chrome using the Chrome inspect tool? I was stuck because in the Chrome inspect element, differently than any other websites and even PowerPoint presentations opened in Chrome, I'm able to modify texts, while with PDFs I cannot. Does anyone know how to do it?
Edit: Yes I know that the changes made through Chrome DevTools are temporary, but usually I'm able to make those changes, even if they're temporary. But with PDFs I can't.
There are differences in the way some browsers handle PDF data.
Chromium based browsers are more traditional in that the PDF plug-in is based on a Foxit/Skia collaboration, So you need to understand in that case, the downloaded PDF you are viewing is in the binary application/pdf (file already outside of the html wrapper).
Just as you cannot edit the PDF text in Acrobat Reader, the most you can do is incrementally add comments/annotation or field data to the end of the file, before save as a secondary download. The server cannot see your changes unless you submit as an upload.
With Firefox and Google docs there is often a different approach where the PDF is "Repr"oduced as an "Ex"ample (A ReprEx of the PDF) so it is built of a hybrid image and text overlay to emulate that part of the real PDF source. When you previously or later save the underlying downloaded PDF (for viewing) it would not necessarily include any browser based HTML editing, in the saving.
There are other techniques for other cases, but to answer the basic OP question most simply, the answer is NO you cannot change a PDF body, only add notes, etc via extensions. Microsoft variant of Chrome I.E. Edge has some inbuilt annotation ability thus does not need a second extension.
Found this question because I was googling a similar situation--I was wanting to manipulate type sizes and margins on a PDF in inspector via Chrome. I found that FireFox DevTools will allow you to view those styles and even alter the content in the PDF while in browser. I am late to the game but hope this provides answers for someone else in the future.
I am working presently on the adf side and I am stuck with some issues.
I have a page where I have to display the pdf files. The pdf files are in another site and the links are present in a column of the database.But when I try to access those links they are downloading rather than displaying. I need to display those pdf files in my inline frame rather than downloading.
I heard many suggestions like write a bean and put the file in session and get display them in page .But I am not clear.
So please help me on this.
I have a check box at the end and the checkbox should be enabled in my page only when the displayed pdf scrolled to end.
Please help me solving those issues.
When you create a link to a PDF there is only so much you can do to make it display in the browser. The most important thing you must do on the server that delivers the PDF is to make sure it is presented with the correct MIME-type and without a content-disposition header value of attachment.
After that, it's up to the browser to either show it in a browser tab or to download the file. I know Chrome will show the PDF in the browser when it's linked to, not sure if it also does that when it's linked in an iframe.
I don't think there's a reliable way to make it work the way you want, simply because it's very browser dependent.
I have a PDF document that needs to be pulled up in the browser, edited, and saved. I can save via the embedded adobe toolbar, along with all the other acrobat functions. But, what I am trying to see is if there is a way to display the PDF in a webpage alongside web controls.
For example, in the top part of the webpage I have a dropdownlist. It has a list of PDFs. I select one and the bottom part of the webpage opens up with the PDF.
Thanks.
Are you looking for something like Scribd's iPaper viewer?
You can embed it on your site or host with them.
This is typically done with an iframe.
Sorry, you'll have to use either Frames, or iFrames. Perhaps you can also get it via an <object> tag, but that might get browser-specific.
I would contact the people at ceTe (makers of DynamicPDF). Their product permits you to dynamically replace your page output with a PDF file but this involves changing the entire page (the mime-type will be pdf). Is it possible to output the page to a panel instead? I don't think so, but they would be the people I would turn to.