I need to open pdf file into browser without Adobe Reader. Is there any API with php which open PDF files into browser.
Regards
No.
PHP runs on the server. The only "browser API" it has access to is HTTP.
If you want to render a PDF on the client, then the client needs a PDF renderer. There are JavaScript PDF readers, but I can't comment on their cross-browser support or maturity.
You can use SWFTools to convert PDFs to Flash. But SWFTools default skins are not looking good at all, so you can check Flexpaper as a viewer.
In case you are going to make your own skin, then could be useful to read: SWFTools (pdf2swf) to properly work with Flex
Another solution is pdf.js (as Quentin point out), but AFAIR this script was not usable(back then, when I looked for) for PDFs with complex structures (complex gradients for example).
If you need to publish documents as "private" you should look at services as Issuu or you will have to protect files from downloading.
If you pdf files are put online and not restricted, you can try using Google Doc Viewer. It's a very nice way to put the Viewer in <iframe /> so that it can be combined with your web page.
https://docs.google.com/viewer
It is not feasible to view the PDF files without a viewer like Adobe Reader. If you just don't want to use Adobe Reader, you may try a PDF viewer plug in for web browser from some other company.
However, if you do not want to use a viewer at all and want to write/build your own viewer then a better option is to convert the PDF to scalable images and then show them on the web page using image tags. You can also create such a viewer using JavaScript.
Even you can find many already available JavaScript based viewers which can show those images.
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Is there any way to display pdf generated using mpdf inline in mobile browsers?
I went through mpdf documentation and tried destination option mpdf->output('filename.pdf','I'). It works pretty well across every browser in desktop except IE and doesn't work in mobile-browsers like Firefox, Chrome etc. It starts downloading automatically instead of displaying inline in IE in desktop and all mobile browsers.
Anyways to handle this?
I stumbled upon this StackOverflow post. You can also try Google embeddable PDF Viewer
As per the blog:
Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page. The files don't have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available online.
based on documentation :
I: send the file inline to the browser. The plug-in is used if available. The name given by $filename is used when one selects the “Save as” option on the link generating the PDF.
You need plug-in installed on your browser to embed the PDF document (Desktop and Mobile). If your browser doesn't has PDF Viewer plug-in, PDF document will be downloaded automatically.
You can use Javascript plugin such as pdfJs to embed your PDF document in cross browsers.
Doing some research on trying to secure documents on a server so that visitors cannot copy paste the content.
Users can upload documents as pdf, doc, docx, and currently they can download these files in staging enviroment. Anyone know of a way I could either upload these as read only so once they are downloaded they cannot be edited or copy pasted etc?
Or is there a way I could get the contents of these files and display the content on a webpage while disabling copy paste etc?
Just looking for some ideas on a solution for this.
You cannot control web browser behavior.
The only way to do that is to use a script to render a part of a document.
For example, rendering page by page in a web view. But user could copy/past content even if you deploy some Javascript.
Perhaps, you should take a look to Flash, Silverlight or Java applet.
I think there are few solutions that can limit access to read only.
But il will mainly limited to computers.
You can protect a file with a password too.
Files could be downloaded but only users owning the password could edit them.
This is the case for PDF files, Excel files, etc.
It's a way but I don't think it's the best way.
I think the easiest way is to convert your documents as PDF files and to limit actions to read only by adding a password. You ll be able to disable write permission, print permission, etc. And rendering a PDF on a web page is very simple.
My client asked me to create a page which contains PDF. I used Embed, Iframe tags, it worked in Mozilla but did not work in IE and Mobile browser.
I know that all browsers will read .pdf directly but I want it to be embed.
Is there any way?
Please help me..
If you give a link to the PDF on the web page, any browser will be able to download the file and then the user can open it in a PDF viewer of his choice.
If you want to embed the PDF document in a web page, then the browser needs to have a PDF plugin installed. This may not be the case with all browsers. The PDF will be displayed only if the PDF viewer application's plugin is registered with the browser.
The other way of embedding the PDF document is to use a server-side component that renders the PDF as ordinary HTML web page elements. Google has an embeddable PDF viewer.
Google Docs offers an
undocumented feature that lets you
embed PDF files and PowerPoint
presentations in a web page. The files
don't have to be uploaded to Google
Docs, but they need to be available
online.
You can also use Mozilla's pdf renderer written in javascript. It is rather complex getting started, but all options are there. It is the pdf reader available in Firefox and extensions exist for other browsers. Fun fact: It is by far the most starred library on github when searching for pdf.
Try using adobe pdf api, i found is very easy and compatible with all browsers.
https://www.adobe.io/apis/documentcloud/dcsdk/pdf-embed.html
I am looking for a PDF viewer which must have the following features
Open source
Free
Web Based
PHP/MySQL web-application supportive.
caching facility
I have already seen flexpaper, do-pdf, sumatra pdf and many others but those doesn't fulfill my above criteria
So I guess you want to show your PDF's stored on your file system without using the user's default PDF viewer? Just open it with a php viewer class (e.g. http://www.phpclasses.org/package/6464-PHP-Alter-a-PDF-document-to-make-it-print-when-opened.html). It complies with 1,2,3 and 4. No.5 is up to your programming.
PHP: How to write code in PHP to play video files (not flash) but completely turn off the video download
Yahoo sites do it so far I saw
It's not possible via PHP AFAIK. You have to use JavaScript or HTML5 tag. The problem with HTML5 is, that not every browser supports it yet.