View PDF Documents Inline
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Last Post: July 8, 2012 (RSS)
By KCMedia - July 3, 2012
does anyone now how to display pdf documents online inside a browser so that the user cant download them to their computer and also not print them?
Craig
KC Media Solutions
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Re: [kcmedia] View PDF Documents Inline
By Jason - July 4, 2012
You should be able to output a link directly to the PDF, depending on the browser, it should just open up in the browser.
In terms of restricting saving/printing, this is a function of the pdf plugin in your particular browser. Most PDF creation software packages allow you to restrict printing when you create the document, so it would have to be done at that time.
Hope this helps
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Re: [Jason] View PDF Documents Inline
By KCMedia - July 4, 2012
Mark here Craig is still away.
What i mean is i dont want to open a pdf external to the website browser i want to keep them locked inside the browser as the documents cant be saved to the persons computer because of the nature of the content of the documents they dont want to allow people to save them to their computer or print them out. I have worked out a way of stopping them from printing them using css print media, but i cant find a way of making the pdf open inline with the browser.
Craig
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www.kcmedia.biz
Re: [kcmedia] View PDF Documents Inline
By Jason - July 4, 2012
This is normally a function of the browser. On most modern browsers, a link to the pdf should spawn a pdf reader within the browser window. Is this not what you are getting?
Stopping them from saving the document would have to be done through the PDF software at the time when the document is created.
Is there a reason why it needs to be a PDF as compared to content on the webpage?
Hope this helps
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Re: [Jason] View PDF Documents Inline
By KCMedia - July 4, 2012
Craig
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Re: [kcmedia] View PDF Documents Inline
By Jason - July 5, 2012
Okay. Since the documents have already been created, there isn't a good way of stopping people from saving the documents to their computers.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
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Re: [Jason] View PDF Documents Inline
By KCMedia - July 8, 2012
things i have been thinking about but cant work out.
upload pdf to cmsb and then when someone clicks a link it will turn the pdf into html?
upload pdf to cmsb and then when someone clicks a link it will turn the pdf into flash?
anyone help this is getting very urgent now?
thanks
Mark
Craig
KC Media Solutions
www.kcmedia.biz
Re: [kcmedia] View PDF Documents Inline
By Jason - July 8, 2012
I did a little more research. One option I found was to use #toolbar=0 in your link.
ie
<a href = "myPdf.pdf#toolbar=0">My PDF</a>This supresses the Adobe Toolbar.
For more information, check here:
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf
Hope this helps
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Re: [Jason] View PDF Documents Inline
By KCMedia - July 8, 2012
thanks for that but only works for Safari and Firefox but not for IE so not really a solution.
I found this service that turns the document into images and displays them inside shadowbox but it is a aspx script i have the source code now just need to find a server that will run aspx so we can use it now.
Mark
Craig
KC Media Solutions
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