PDF in an ASP page

[fmrock]

Hey everyone,

I am working on a project and need this to be cross broswer and work on PC/Macs.

Is it possible to allways display a PDF in the broswer windows. I want the page split in half where the user can view the PDF file.. page through it... zoom in/out ect. and on the right.. they will have a form the can fill out.

I have this working with an axctiveX control, and tiff images, but this will not work for a mac, so I am trying to figure out something else.

Any ideas or suggestions would be great.

 

[Sheco]

A general issue with the web is that content providers do not really have control over how their content is viewed.

Some users may view the PDF in an external application and there is nothing you can really do about it... especially cross-platform.

Your best luck may be a Java PDF applet if such thing exists.

 

[nickdel]

fmrock, I may have read this wrong but can't you just stick the PDF in an iframe? All the controls should be available too!

Nick

 

[fmrock]

I have tried the frames route, and on a mac it just pops the PDF into a new window. Which lets the user view it and all will work, but not in the layout we want.

I found this java tiff viewer.

http://www.acordex.com/vtj/index.html

 

[Sheco]

If the java applet works for TIFF then perhaps you can convert the PDFs to TIFF?

 

[fmrock]

They can be exported either way from our content system. We have allready started using tiffs, and were going to try to see what else was out there and PDF seems to be the only other format.