Showing posts with label PDF Viewer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PDF Viewer. Show all posts

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Display PDF File in MOSS Portal

Steps to display PDF file in a MOSS / Sharepoint Portal
Usually, when i get down to write a blog, i tend to get creative and put a lot of language around it. This time, i am going to cut the crap and get straight to it.
I want to display a PDF file in my MOSS Portal. So how do i go about it?
Following are some simple approach that your dev team can take.
1. Upload the pdf to a doc library
Add a Content Editor Web part to your web site
Copy paste the below code to the HTML mode in the content editor
< embed height=”500px” width=”500px”
src=”http://siteurl/test.pdf” type=”application/pdf”>
2. Use a simple page viewer web part and give the path of the pdf file in the document library
3. Many a case, the user will want to dynamically pick the pdf file based on some parameter. This was my case too. A simple web part will do the trick for this. Create a custom web part that spins out the HTML mentioned in approach 1. With a difference that the url of the pdf file will be generated at the run time based the business requirement.