Can anyone suggest a good way to display PDF's?

raenafay · 2024-08-14T19:56:05.956Z

Hello, and thank you for reading. I am a super beginner. Currently I have a repeating group, with links to pdf’s stored on my database. Some of my users say they cannot get them to load, does anyone know of a way to save them as a smaller file, or a different program to load them and view? My clients only need to be able to read them, not edit if that helps.

1theritzy · 2024-08-14T23:43:31.015Z

Hi Rae,

It should be extremely easy using the link element. I have only single-page pdf’s and they load extremely fast.

hergin · 2024-08-15T01:12:53.779Z

You can use the google pdf viewer to embed a pdf in an HTML element:

This is how you set up:

And this is how it looks like:

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<iframe
    id="documentiframe" 
    src='https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https:Current page's Document's File's URL&embedded=true' 
    width='100%' 
    height='100%' 
    frameborder='0'>
</iframe>

raenafay · 2024-08-15T03:47:04.884Z

Thank you! That helps, I will explore that.

raenafay · 2024-08-15T03:47:52.229Z

Thank you! I will try that and see if that helps. Its been hit and miss who can see it and who cant. I appreciate your answer.