How to embed PDFs in html

[blondebier]

Is it possible to display a pdf document in my html web site? Is it possible with html or do I need scripts?

Many thanks for your comments

 

[Eggles]

You can create a thumbnail image of the PDF as a GIF or JPG and LINK to it from the thumbnail, but I don't think you can directly include the PDF in the HTML.

 

[tgreer]

I don't know about thumbnails, but embedding a PDF in a document is straightforward. You just use the venerable <embed> tag:

<embed src=mydoc.pdf height=400 width=600/>

Embed is being deprecated, though, so you might want to use the more generic <object> tag.

If anyone knows of a good PDF thumnailer/rasterizer, I'd like to know about it!

GhostScript/ImageMagick will do the trick, but I'm looking for something more direct.

Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

 

[Eggles]

Although I am sure it is not a particularly good way of creating a thumbnail of a PDF, I just take a screenshot of the opened PDF, paste into Paintshop Pro (faster than Photoshop) resize, add a border and save in most appropriate web graphic format (JPG for photos, GIF for everything else).