Initial Zoom Parameter for PDF Object in HTML5

Question

I am building a page that will display a PDF file on the page. When viewing this page in Chrome, the zoom level is set by default so that the document is wider and taller than the allotted space. Safari seems to have a preferable default of fitting the page to the available space, just FYI.

I would like to know if there are any parameters that can be set in <object> to force the initial zoom level of the document. It might be name=initZoom with values like "fitToPage" or "fitToWidth" or "70" (for 70% zoom). It might look something like this:

<object data="/path/to/file.pdf" type="application/pdf">
    <param name="initZoom" value="fitToPage" />
</object>

Answer 1

Adding a late answer since none of the existing ones worked for me, and someone might need it.

Instead of adding '#view=fitH' or '#view=fitV' to the pdf url, which didn't work for me, i got it working by adding '#zoom=scale', like this:

<object data="/path/to/file.pdf#zoom=scale" type="application/pdf">
</object>

Hope this helps someone, and sorry for any inconvenience.

EDIT: Found more parameters here. Found the link in this thread, which is basically the same question as this.