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harsh201
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May 21, 2021
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Is Adobe Storing the details of Rendered PDF while using PDFEmbed API?

  • May 21, 2021
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Hi,

We are planning on using PDF Embed API to render the PDF in our application. While navigating through the document rendered, we noticed that blobs are getting downloaded from document cloud. On further inspecting, it looks like a preview of the document is returned from Adobe Document Cloud.

Details:

blob:https://documentcloud.adobe.com/c02ae5ee-0768-4d6f-9906-6f3875099df8

Downloaded Blob:

Netwok Stats:

 

This is conflicting with the details shared in the security document: 
https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/security/pdfs/AdobeDocumentServices_SecurityOverview.pdf

 

Can you please help us clarify this behaviour?

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Correct answer Abhishek Arora

Hi harsh201,

 

Sorry for being late here. To answer your question rendered PDF is not being stored on Adobe servers and infact it doesn't even reach to Adobe servers, it remains on user machine itself.

 

To display PDF, we are using URL.createObjectURL (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/createObjectURL), it generates such blob url and for each URL generated by URL.createObjectURL the browser stores a URL -> Blob mapping internally.

 

Hope it helps. Let me know if more information is required.

 

Thanks,

Abhishek

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Abhishek AroraCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
May 24, 2021

Hi harsh201,

 

Sorry for being late here. To answer your question rendered PDF is not being stored on Adobe servers and infact it doesn't even reach to Adobe servers, it remains on user machine itself.

 

To display PDF, we are using URL.createObjectURL (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/createObjectURL), it generates such blob url and for each URL generated by URL.createObjectURL the browser stores a URL -> Blob mapping internally.

 

Hope it helps. Let me know if more information is required.

 

Thanks,

Abhishek

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    harsh201Author
    Participant
    May 27, 2021

    Hi Abhishek,

     

    Thanks for detailed answer. This information is sufficient to clear the queries/concerns we had.

     

    Regards,

    Harsh

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    harsh201Author
    Participant
    May 24, 2021

    @Joel Geraci, your two cents would be appreciated here.

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