How can you embed PDF on your website? A popular option is to upload the PDF file to an online storage service such as Google Drive or Microsoft's OneDrive, make the file public, and then copy-paste it code IFRAME provided by these services to embed the document in any website.
The following is a sample of the PDF embed code from Google Drive that works in all browsers.
This is the most common method for embedding PDF files. It's simple, tried and tested, but it has no control over how your PDFs are presented on your web pages.
If you prefer to offer a more customized and immersive reading experience to the PDFs you display on your website, check out the new Adobe View SDK. It's part of her platforms Adobe Document Cloud, but it comes free.
Here are some unique features that make this RDF integration solution stand out:
- You can add tools annotation in the PDF viewer. Anyone can comment on the embedded PDF and download the modified file.
- If you have a large multi-page document embedded, readers can use thumbnail view to quickly navigate to any page.
- The PDF viewer can be customized to hide download options and printing RDF files.
- There are built-in details so you know how many people saw the PDF file and how they interacted with it.
- And my favorite ViewSDK feature is the built-in feature. Let's see how it is done:
In Inline mode, all pages of the embedded PDF document are displayed at the same time, so that visitors to your site do not have to move from one document to another. PDF controls are hidden from the user and PDF pages are paired with pictures and other HTML content on your website.
It takes some steps to use the View SDK. Create credentials for your site from the adobe.io page. Please note that credentials apply to a single domain. If you have more than one, you will need different credentials for each of them.
Next, create the embed code. You need to replace clientId with your credentials. The URL of the code should indicate the location of the PDF file.
Read more from official docs, and see samples from repository.
