I am trying to view a PDF document in my MVC web page, but I cant make it to work.
I would like the PDF to be displayed as a part of the other stuff on the page (header, footer etc.). Currently I have a solution where the PDF is shown, but on the entire page.
Has anybody done this, if yes then how?
Some PDF files contain a table of contents, which lets you quickly jump to sections within a document. To view the table of contents, Choose View > Show Contents Pane, and click the TOC button or choose View > Table Of Contents.
Open a pdf file and click 'View' on the main menu > Select 'Split View'. Open the files in two tabs and click the area between the tabs. Click the View settings button on the top toolbar. Drag and drop one tab over another one to enable the split mode.
To resize the page to fit entirely in the document pane, choose View > Zoom > Zoom To Fit Page. To resize the page to fit the width of the window, choose View > Zoom > Fit Width. Part of the page may be out of view. To resize the page to fit the height of the window, choose View > Zoom > Fit Height.
Why don't you try using iframe like this :
<iframe src="even file stream action url"></iframe>
I suggest to use object tag if it's possible, use iframe just for testing.
If you want to render PDF as part of the page as you just did
src='<% Html.RenderAction("GetPDF"); %>'
Then this is your option
If you need complete control over PDF content using CSS or whatsoever, like Google books and so on, then you need tools that help you to convert each requested page of PDF to Plain Text, HTML or even image. tools like PDFsharp. Search Google For Tools
If you want display PDF as part of the page then this is what you have to do
ASPX: src="<%= Url.Action("GetPDF") %>" Razor: src="@Url.Action("GetPDF")"
And final answer could be
<object data="<%= Url.Action("GetPDF") %>" type="application/pdf" width="300" height="200"> alt : <a href="data/test.pdf">test.pdf</a> </object>
And in the case that you want to return PDF as Stream then you need
public FileStreamResult GetPDF() { FileStream fs = new FileStream("c:\\PeterPDF2.pdf", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); return File(fs, "application/pdf"); }
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