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PDF Embed 4 for Stacks

03/25/2025

The PDF Embed stack offers a sleek and consistent viewer for showcasing your documents on your website. Everything is hosted on your domain. This functionality enables PDFs to be seamlessly embedded across all devices, including mobile, while maintaining their original appearance and performance. For more functionality, check out our PDF Pro stack. Check out PDF embed at https://www.weavers.space

Transcript

00:09 In this video, we're going to be looking
00:10 at PDF embed version 4. This is
00:13 completely revamped version where we
00:15 have a completely new embed that has
00:17 been modernized to work across all of
00:20 the latest browsers and all
00:22 devices. We have a very nice, beautiful
00:25 PDF viewer that we can go ahead and view
00:27 the uh all the thumbnails. We can go
00:29 ahead and search, navigate through
00:31 pages, basically adjust the zoom that we
00:34 want, and then we can also print and
00:37 download the PDF directly from the
00:39 viewer. Now, if you want more advanced
00:41 options, make sure you go ahead and
00:42 check out PDF Pro. And it couldn't be
00:45 easier to use. Once you add the stack to
00:48 the page, go ahead and click the edit
00:49 link button. Now, once this opens up,
00:52 you're going to go ahead and either
00:53 paste in your URL or if you've added the
00:55 PDF to your resources in your project,
00:57 just go ahead and start typing that
00:58 PDF's name and then click the link
01:01 button. Now, if you're still using Rapid
01:03 Weaver and you want to actually use the
01:05 Rapid Weaver resources, go ahead and
01:07 when you add your PDF into the
01:09 resources, rightclick and say copy URL.
01:13 Once you have that URL, go ahead inside
01:15 into your link setting and go ahead and
01:18 paste that in. At this point, once you
01:21 publish your project, you're good to go.
01:23 Hey, now that we've set our PDF URL,
01:26 we'll notice that version 4 has all new
01:28 height settings. Now, I believe these
01:31 viewport height percentage settings are
01:32 probably the best bet. What this is is
01:35 the height percentage of the browser
01:37 window. So, by default, the PDF viewer
01:40 is going to take up 90% of the browser
01:43 height. And you can have custom heights
01:45 for small, medium, and large break
01:47 points. And if you still want to use
01:49 pixel or percentage uh based sizing, you
01:52 can do that as well. And of course, you
01:55 can turn the toolbar off and
01:57 on. Now, let's preview and have a look.
02:00 So, as you see, we have a nice PDF
02:02 viewer that is taking up 90% of the
02:04 height of our browser window. Um, we can
02:07 go ahead and click on over here and see
02:08 a thumbnail view of all of our pages.
02:11 Uh, we can navigate through pages,
02:13 search, we have, uh, page, uh, you know,
02:16 zoom controls as well. Um, and then we
02:18 have the ability to print and download
02:20 our PDFs, too. As you see, this is a
02:23 very elegantl looking PDF viewer that
02:26 will be identical across all browsers
02:29 and devices, and it's just really great
02:32 to use.
02:38 [Music]
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