use readercontrol on mobile device

[Samuele Panarotto]

Good morning,

is there a way to use ReaderControl instead of MobileReaderControl on a mobile device?

Thank you.

[Matt Parizeau]

Hi Samuele,

You could modify the isMobileDevice as mentioned here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pdfnet-webviewer/0LkS8Re0BqM/QxsRDAyan8wJ

You would just change the function so that it always returns false.

Matt Parizeau

Software Developer

PDFTron Systems Inc.

[Samuele Panarotto]

Hi Matt,

with this code:

 

var mobileCheck = PDFTron.WebViewer.prototype.isMobileDevice;

    PDFTron.WebViewer.prototype.isMobileDevice = function() {

        if (location.search.toLowerCase().indexOf('disablemobile') === -1) {

            return mobileCheck.call(this); // or add your own code here

        }

        return false;

    };

     

    var webViewerObj = new PDFTron.WebViewer({

    type: "html5",

.......}

on a Surface Tablet with IE11 I get always the same result, PdfTron use MobileReaderControl instead of ReaderControl, where I have wrong?

Thank you

[Matt Parizeau]

Hi Samuele,

The example I linked was just to show you how to override the isMobileDevice function. If you want to always use ReaderControl instead of MobileReaderControl then you can simply return false from the function. The part with mobileCheck is just extra for that particular situation.

For your case:

PDFTron.WebViewer.prototype.isMobileDevice = function() {
    return false;
};

Matt Parizeau

Software Developer

PDFTron Systems Inc.

[Samuele Panarotto]

It works, thank you.