[Laszlo-user] cannot display a pdf document in an iframe

Thu May 14 04:33:22 PDT 2009

Perhaps this is of help:

Demo: PDF document in inline frame http://bit.ly/Fu2hS

For me, this works in Safari, and not in FireFox.  Safari displays the  
PDF inline, scaled to fit the iframe, but Firefox displays a blank  
iframe and downloads the PDFs!  In my experience, PDF's are treated  
specially by browsers, and you can't rely on them displaying them.

On 2009-05-14, at 06:04EDT, Bachstein, Marc wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have an iframe in my OL-application which shall display a pdf  
> document.
>
> I have tried <embed> and <object>. Both tags do not display the pdf  
> in the iframe.
>
> Does anybody know what I do wrong?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Marc
>
> --------
>
> <canvas>
> 	<html x="50" y="50" width="500" height="500" name="HTMLView"  
> visible="true"/>
> 	
> 	<button name="displayPDF" text="display pdf document">
> 		
> 	    <method name="_setIframeContent" args="iframeID, content"><! 
> [CDATA[
> 	        LzBrowserService.LzBrowser.callJS("window.__seticontent",  
> false, iframeID, content);
> 	     ]]></method>
> 	
> 	    <handler name="oninit" reference="canvas" ><![CDATA[
> 	        var js = "window.__seticontent = function (iframeID,  
> content) {" +
> 	                  "var iframebody =  
> document.getElementById(iframeID).contentWindow.document.body;" +
> 	                  "iframebody.innerHTML = content;" +
> 	                  "iframebody.style.backgroundColor = 'white'; }";
> 	        if ($dhtml) {
> 	          //LPP-6911
> 	          eval(js);
> 	        } else {
> 	          LzBrowserService.LzBrowser.loadJS(js);
> 	        }
> 	    ]]></handler>	
> 	     		
> 		<handler name="onclick"><![CDATA[
> 			Debug.write("display pdf document");
> 			
> 			var htmlContent= "<html><body>"
> 							+ "display PDF"
> 							+ "<embed src='myDocument.pdf' width='100%' height='100%'>"
>
> /*							+ "<object data='myDocument.pdf' type='application/pdf'  
> width='500' height='500'>"
> 							+ "<param name='src' value='myDocument.pdf'>"
> 						    + "Your browser does not support this kind of object."
> 						  	+ "</object>"
> */						  	
> 							+ "</body></html>";
> 							
> 			var theiframeID = canvas.HTMLView.iframeid;
> 			
> 			Debug.write("theiframeID="+theiframeID);
> 			
> 			Debug.write("htmlContent="+htmlContent)
>
> 			this._setIframeContent(theiframeID, htmlContent);
> 							
> 			]]>
> 		</handler>
> 	</button>
> </canvas>