How to Use pdf.js [closed]

Question

I am considering using pdf.js (an open source tool that allows embedding of a pdf in a webpage). There isn't any documentation on how to use it.

I assume what I do is make an html page with the script referenced in the header, and then in the body, I put some sort of function call with an array of the file name and location. Can anyone help me out here?

Answer 1

There is documentation available on their github readme. They cite the following example code:

/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */ /* vim: set shiftwidth=2 tabstop=2 autoindent cindent expandtab: */  // // See README for overview //  'use strict';  // // Fetch the PDF document from the URL using promises // PDFJS.getDocument('helloworld.pdf').then(function(pdf) {   // Using promise to fetch the page   pdf.getPage(1).then(function(page) {     var scale = 1.5;     var viewport = page.getViewport(scale);      //     // Prepare canvas using PDF page dimensions     //     var canvas = document.getElementById('the-canvas');     var context = canvas.getContext('2d');     canvas.height = viewport.height;     canvas.width = viewport.width;      //     // Render PDF page into canvas context     //     var renderContext = {       canvasContext: context,       viewport: viewport     };     page.render(renderContext);   }); }); 

Answer 2

Try Google'ing pdf.js documentation

/* create the PDF document */  var doc = new pdf(); doc.text(20, 20, 'hello, I am PDF.'); doc.text(20, 30, 'i was created in the browser using javascript.'); doc.text(20, 40, 'i can also be created from node.js');  /* Optional - set properties on the document */ doc.setProperties({   title: 'A sample document created by pdf.js',   subject: 'PDFs are kinda cool, i guess',           author: 'Marak Squires',   keywords: 'pdf.js, javascript, Marak, Marak Squires',   creator: 'pdf.js' });  doc.addPage(); doc.setFontSize(22); doc.text(20, 20, 'This is a title'); doc.setFontSize(16);  doc.text(20, 30, 'This is some normal sized text underneath.');  var fileName = "testFile"+new Date().getSeconds()+".pdf"; var pdfAsDataURI = doc.output('datauri', {"fileName":fileName}); 

NOTE: the "pdf.js" project mentioned here is https://github.com/Marak/pdf.js, and has been deprecated since this answer was posted. @Treffynnon's answer is about the still-active Mozilla project (https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js) that most searchers will be looking for.