Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 10/05/59 11:29

Richard Lynch wrote:

> On Sat, October 15, 2005 7:26 am, Edward Vermillion wrote:
>
> > Do they want the PDF to display in the page, or is a link to a PDF
> > ok for them?
>
>
> I've already warned them that a PDF embedded into a page is
> impossible.
>
> That may not be true, technically, for all I know, but I've sure
> never seen it, and don't even want to try to go somewhere that so few
> have gone.
>

I would expect that putting the PDF in an <iframe> would work, but I
wouldn't trust browsers or the Acrobat plugin to not crash horribly in
that sort of situation. It's also going to be very confusing for users
seeing the Acrobat toolbar floating in the middle of their page.

It would be interesting to see some tests of PDF-in-<iframe> done in
various different browsers, but unless it just happened to work
perfectly in every common browser (we can all dream, can't we?) I
wouldn't touch it.

Jasper

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