ericwjp / pdfjs_rails

PDFjs viewer for rails application.

PdfjsRails

This gem is to use PDFjs pdf viewer in the rails project. Pdfjs is one of the best open source Pdf viewer from Mozilla. https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/

Online Demo http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html

Demo Rails 4 Appliction https://github.com/shyammohankanojia/pdfjs_viewer_demo

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pdfjs_rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pdfjs_rails

Usage

$ rails g pdfjs_rails:install

This will copy pdfjs files to your public dir.

To Display pdf files in your view use this iframe in your html page

<iframe src="/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=http://cdn.mozilla.net/pdfjs/helloworld.pdf" style="border: 0" width="50%" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Note: "file=" in the src url is the reference to the pdf.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request