Preview in browser

[g41n]

I need a preview of the PDF in browser... can I have it as image or HTML? Is there any method like "toCanvas" or something like that?

[ryanlin1986]

You should use pdf.js to do this
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

[g41n]

Thanks for the response but I need something to show it before the PDF generation.
Does the JSON for the doc definition follow some standard? In this case, is there and interpreter to convert it into HTML?

[daniellizik]

You can take the base64 data url and use it as the src attribute in an iframe. See the jspdf homepage for an example. This comment details the methods used to get the base64 url of a pdf.

[stodolos]

The getBase64 method yielded the following error for me:

HTTP Error 414. The request URL is too long.

The getDataUrl method seems to work just fine though. The problem is with IE though. Nothing appears...

I was wondering if it's possible to mix both pdfMake and pdf.js (which works in IE) together. I only see how to use pdf.js with an actual file, but not with an object or dataUri or something.

Any thoughts?

[tlk]

Perhaps this could be used: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12094943/936466

[liborm85]

Answered.