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PDF Embed API doesn't display complete document

Community Beginner ,
Jan 09, 2022 Jan 09, 2022

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I'm seeing cases where PDF Embed API does not display documents completely. It renders portions of the document but not the entire document. Apparently random blocks and areas of the document (they might be tables?) won't render, they are just blank. But the areas display normally when I view the PDF directly in Chrome or any other reader. 

 

It does not appear to be browser or OS dependent. I've reproduced this in MacOS and Windows, and in Chrome and Firefox. It's the same in both in line and sized container view. It was also reproduceable on the SDK demo page: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/view-sdk-demo/index.html#/customize/FULL_WINDOW

 

The documents in question are invoices from vendors. Electronically generated documents, not scans. I obviously can't easily share them publically. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem in any shareable or recreatable documents yet.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Jan 19, 2022 Jan 19, 2022

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Would you feel safe emailing me some samples at jedimaster@adobe.com?

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 31, 2022 Jan 31, 2022

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Sample sent. Thank you Raymond!

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Jan 24, 2022 Jan 24, 2022

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I'm seeing cases where PDF Embed API does not display documents completely. It renders portions of the document but not the entire document. Apparently random blocks and areas of the document (they might be tables?) won't render, they are just blank. But the areas display normally when I view the PDF directly in Chrome or any other reader. 

 

It does not appear to be browser or OS dependent. I've reproduced this in MacOS and Windows, and in Chrome and Firefox. It's the same in both in line and sized container view. It was also reproduceable on the SDK demo page: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/view-sdk-demo/index.html#/customize/FULL_WINDOW ..promo-codes.it

 

The documents in question are invoices from vendors. Electronically generated documents, not scans. I obviously can't easily share them publically. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem in any shareable or recreatable documents yet.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

 


By @Ron Michael Zettlemoyer
Perhaps you just encrypt part of the document. Try changing your account.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 31, 2022 Jan 31, 2022

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Thanks for the response, Ivan22795859cafy. The documents don't appear to be encrypted in any way. And I don't have to enter a password or do anything special to view the PDF outside of the PDF Embed API.

 

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Explorer ,
Feb 01, 2022 Feb 01, 2022

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 01, 2022 Feb 01, 2022

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Yes, it does contain an email. Thanks for pointing out that thread. But I'm not seeing the exact same behavior. And none of the content after the email address is missing. But it still might be related.

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Explorer ,
Feb 01, 2022 Feb 01, 2022

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If you open up the PDF in Adobe Reader, right click on the document and go to Document Properties, what do you see as the "PDF Producer"?

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 01, 2022 Feb 01, 2022

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The producer is the Big Faceless Report Generator. LOL. 

https://bfo.com/products/report/?version=work-20200610T1518-r36819M

 

 

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Explorer ,
Feb 01, 2022 Feb 01, 2022

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Most likely the same email address issue. That report generator is used by NetSuite to generate invoice PDFs, which often have a clickable email address included in the PDF document.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 06, 2022 Apr 06, 2022

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Any chance this issue will be addressed any time soon?

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Engaged ,
Apr 06, 2022 Apr 06, 2022

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Sorry, I do not have an update for you on this.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 06, 2022 Apr 06, 2022

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Thanks.

 

FWIW, I have found that if I take the PDF and re-print it to another PDF (like open it in Mac Preview and Print to a PDF) then Embed API will render it correctly. But I haven't found a way to implement this in code. In our backend we use EO.Pdf to manipulate PDFs; I tried adding these "bad" PDFs to a new PDF but that didn't fix anything.

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New Here ,
Jun 01, 2022 Jun 01, 2022

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I'm having the same issue. It occurs for me after applying redactions using the PyMuPDF library. Other viewers (Acrobat, Edge and Chrome) have no issue displaying these PDFs and I make sure to perform proper garbage collection after applying the redactions. An example document has been attached.
I hope this information might help to resolve this issue, otherwise we will have to start looking for an alternative PDF viewer.

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Explorer ,
Jul 06, 2022 Jul 06, 2022

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I can confirm this issue happens using the Adobe Acrobat browser extension as well

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 14, 2023 Apr 14, 2023

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I don't suppose there's been any interest or progress in fixing this bug? It's over a year old.

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Adobe Employee ,
Apr 15, 2023 Apr 15, 2023

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I tested the attached PDF above in our new viewer (we had a major update a few months ago) and the issue does not appear to be there. 

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 15, 2023 Apr 15, 2023

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That's interesting. My sites are still having the same exact issues with certain PDFs, like NetSuite invoices generated by "Big Faceless Report Generator". We don't have to do anything special to enable the latest version, do we? I'm using https://documentservices.adobe.com/view-sdk/viewer.js.

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Can you send that PDF to jedimaster@adobe.com?

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Adobe Employee ,
Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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I can confirm this is not yet fixed. I'll check the ticket for this and see - but I'm going to be out for most of the week so I may be delayed.

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Sep 01, 2023 Sep 01, 2023

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Having same issue with netsuite generated pdf files, are there any update on this topic?

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Adobe Employee ,
Sep 01, 2023 Sep 01, 2023

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Unfortunately no.

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New Here ,
Oct 12, 2023 Oct 12, 2023

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Hello Raymond,

Is there any updates for Netsuite generated docs?

I am also having an issue with Nitro generated documents.

Could you please check that? If there is no update, could you please provide a clue in order to fire any event.

I have tried APP_RENDERING_FAILED event. But it is not fired, although PDF fails to render

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Oct 12, 2023 Oct 12, 2023

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Sorry, I've got no update on this.

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