Embedding pdfs in Django

Vikas Sri

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Nov 11, 2018, 1:09:48 PM11/11/18

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I am preparing learning tutorial application in Django, which will contain PDF's that I need to display in my templates. I tried <embed>, <iframe> etc but nothing worked. Do I need to install something to make it work?

C. Kirby

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Nov 13, 2018, 10:02:59 AM11/13/18

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I'm pretty sure that you can't render pdf to the browser. You can either provide links for the users to download and view the pdfs, or extract the content from the pdfs and put that in your templates.

You may be able to get what you want with javascript. I can't vouch for this, but I found it searching - https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/render-pdfs-in-the-browser-with-pdf-js/

good luck

Siim Märtmaa

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Nov 13, 2018, 10:33:27 AM11/13/18

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> On Sunday, November 11, 2018 at 1:09:48 PM UTC-5, Vikas Sri wrote:
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>> I am preparing learning tutorial application in Django, which will contain PDF's that I need to display in my templates. I tried <embed>, <iframe> etc but nothing worked. Do I need to install something to make it work?

Here is example and demo with pdf and <object> tag
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/object

It should also work with iframe
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/iframe

gibson...@u4sd.org

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Nov 13, 2018, 1:01:49 PM11/13/18

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that is nice

gibson...@u4sd.org

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Nov 13, 2018, 1:02:01 PM11/13/18

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great

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