如何在没有Flash / Adob​​e的PHP网站上显示PDF

Question

I am not satisfied with the browsers internal behaviour of displaying PDFs. I would like to provide my users with an easy yet stylish PDF viewing experience on my sites. Something like Scribd, but managable and unter full security and control on my server.

I could provide inline links to GoogleDocsViewer or ZohoViewer. Or convert the PDF right after its upload with SWFTools and show the swf with native PHP or HTML5.

Anyway, somehow, after hours of reading and thinking, I am just not happy with any of the above approaches.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Take a look at Google Docs Viewer. The following code will help you (untested):

<iframe src="http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=PDF-URL" style="width:600px; height:500px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Update 13.09.2016: Google removed their generator. Even though, you can still use the viewer by appending the escaped document-url to the url above manually.