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A way to preview a local PDF?

Community Beginner ,
May 29, 2020 May 29, 2020

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I'm running into an issue where I cannot preview a local pdf.

I have tried:

 

 <script type="text/javascript">
    document.addEventListener("adobe_dc_view_sdk.ready", function()
    {
        var adobeDCView = new AdobeDC.View({clientId: "43b7fe695ddb49899bd5d90f222f5b7c", divId: "adobe-dc-view"});
        adobeDCView.previewFile(
       {
          content:   {location: {url: "local_file.pdf"}},
          metaData: {fileName: "local_file.pdf"}
       }, {embedMode: "IN_LINE", showDownloadPDF: true, showPrintPDF: true});
    });
 </script>

 

and:

 

 <script type="text/javascript">
    document.addEventListener("adobe_dc_view_sdk.ready", function()
    {
        var adobeDCView = new AdobeDC.View({clientId: "43b7fe695ddb49899bd5d90f222f5b7c", divId: "adobe-dc-view"});
        adobeDCView.previewFile(
       {
          content:   {location: {url: "/local_file.pdf"}},
          metaData: {fileName: "local_file.pdf"}
       }, {embedMode: "IN_LINE", showDownloadPDF: true, showPrintPDF: true});
    });
 </script>

 

and:

 

 <script type="text/javascript">
    document.addEventListener("adobe_dc_view_sdk.ready", function()
    {
        var adobeDCView = new AdobeDC.View({clientId: "43b7fe695ddb49899bd5d90f222f5b7c", divId: "adobe-dc-view"});
        adobeDCView.previewFile(
       {
          content:   {location: {url: "file:///C:/my/sandbox/local_file.pdf"}},
          metaData: {fileName: "local_file.pdf"}
       }, {embedMode: "IN_LINE", showDownloadPDF: true, showPrintPDF: true});
    });
 </script>

 

but all three don't work.

 

I always just get a "File preview error":

r002_0-1590777204894.png

 

In the Adobe View SDK repo, I did see the "Work with Local File" example.  But this is not what I'm looking for.  In the example, it uses a File Uploader.  For my purposes, I want to just hardcode a local file location for my PDF into my JS code (preferably relative to my index.html file).  That way I can easily work on my local machine.

 

Can you please advise?  Thank you!

 

PS.  Note that my index.html is located in "file:///C:/my/sandbox/" in the same dir as local_file.pdf.

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021

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Did you ever work this out?

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Adobe Employee ,
Jun 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021

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In general web browsers tend to lock that kind of stuff down quite strongly. Imagine if I could read your PDFs and send them to a remote domain? If you want to test _completely_ locally you can of course, but you should fire up a local web server and load it via a relative path. If you need help on running a local web server, just ask, there's quite a few of them available, many which can be run at the command line.

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