stagewebview Windows pdfs

Question

I am developing an air application that downloads pdfs and displays them using stagewebview. The application works as expected on ios and Mac. The problem I am running into is when displaying pdfs on windows. Instead of showing the pdf, it prompts the user to download the file. It seems like it isn't using browser plugins. When I use the browser outside of the air application it displays pdfs as expected. Any ideas of how to fix this?

User Unknow · Accepted Answer

If user have Acrobat Reader installed - it will be used to display PDF inside StageWebView. This is a case of new StageWebView(true);

dogofpavlov · Answer

I ran into this same problem for a Desktop AIR app I built. My solution was to instead of directly linking the PDF in the stageWebView, I instead linked to this:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://url.to.your.pdf

It's basically Googles PDF viewer that works and displays PDFs correctly inside of StageWebView.

Example: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/air_buildingapps.pdf

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