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markt82805509
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April 13, 2017
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Why can't I embed the pdf in my web page anymore

  • April 13, 2017
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For weeks I have been using:

        pdfParam = "search="" + searchString + ""&toolbar=0&messages=0&navpanes=0&view=Fit";        

        url = url + "#" + Server.UrlPathEncode( pdfParam );                 

         if ( openType == "OpenOnPage" )           

         {           

             var x = GetPDF( GetPDFDiv() );           

             x.Text = "<object " +                       

                           "class=\"Object\" " +                       

                           "width=\"100%\" " +                       

                           "height=\"980x\" " + 

                          "type=\"application/x-pdf\" " +                       

                          "data=\"" + url + "\" " +                       

                          "> " +                      "

                         This browser does not support embedded PDFs. Click here to view it.         couldn't figure out to put html text in here

              ShowPDF();           

         }

Today, the PDF showed for a moment, and then an error from PDF said the "Adobe PDF Reader DC stopped working".  I was able to remove the pdfParams and then it showed ok, but the main thing I was trying to accomplish was search for a string so that the pdf was positioned to it.

So then I uninstalled the Reader and downloaded and installed the latest one.  Now I get the "This browser doesn't support..." message and it doesn't show in the page at all.  If I switch it to using an iframe, it shows, but I don't know how to use the parameters with an iframe.

This is on

   Windows 10 - Creators Update

   IE 11.0.15063.0   update versions 11.40

   Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 17.009.20044

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    ~graffiti
    ~graffiti
    Legend
    April 13, 2017

    Embedding a pdf on-page is a bad idea these days. Many (going on most) browsers do not even use the Adobe Reader plug-in any more. They use their own viewer. Your success may vary from one person and pdf to the other.

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    markt82805509Author
    Participant
    April 13, 2017

    I'm aware of all that.  It wasn't my choice to do it.  It is my job to make it work.  Which is why I asked the question.

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      Anonymous
      April 14, 2017

      Ok, I finally figured out how this broke.  At some point, I added my localhost to Compatibility view to solve some problem.  That worked fine for that problem, but meant the browser was running in IE 5 mode.  Apparently IE 5 didn't like the <object> tag.

      I finally spotted it when running under F12 debugger.  I suddenly noticed a "5" up in the upper right hand corner.  When I popped the list, I saw all the versions from 11 down to 5 as selections.  I select 11 and then my page worked.  Then I left the debugger, ran it again a little later and it was broken again.  The reason being that my localhost was still in the Compatibility view of IE5.

      So I removed localhost from the Compatibility view and now I'm back to a working application again.

      Still have the question of how to get rid of the Search window when there are search parameters and I THINK the PDF Reader will still blow up with the search parameters there.  More fun to be had....


      You can force a page to use the most recent HTML that IE supports by adding the tag:

      <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />

      into the head area of the page. I'm still using frameset for us, I tried using an object embed but I see the same results.

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