Embedding pdf

[Daniel-Duffy]

Hiya, complete newbie here (never made or even fiddled with a website before). I'm looking to maybe try Wowchemy/Academic to make a website, where I'd be planning to often embed documents. I found a tutorial (https://iphysresearch.github.io/blog/post/writting-markdown/) explaining that google documents can be easily embedded. But I'd like to embed pdfs instead - would it be straightforward to use the new Adobe Embed Api (https://www.adobe.io/apis/documentcloud/dcsdk/pdf-embed.html)? I think it's a javascript thing, which (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63132807) I guess maybe can be made to work fairly easily? Or if not, is there another very-compatible-with-Hugo way to embed a pdf? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I have zero experience with websites!

[rodrigoalcarazdelaosa]

You may be interested in this.

[Daniel-Duffy]

Indeed, thank you! That looks like probably a good alternative. This is giving me the impression that the Adobe Embed Api would not be instantly usable in Hugo because it involves javascript code rather than shortcode, so some work would need to be done to "wrap" that in some way to use it "nicely", (as seems to have been done with PDF.js in the hugo-embed-pdf-shortcode project)? Is that correct? Not suggesting I or anyone else should attempt this for the Adobe API, just checking I've understood correctly (I've never written a line of javascript nor shortcode!).

[rodrigoalcarazdelaosa]

Indeed, thank you! That looks like probably a good alternative. This is giving me the impression that the Adobe Embed Api would not be instantly usable in Hugo because it involves javascript code rather than shortcode, so some work would need to be done to "wrap" that in some way to use it "nicely", (as seems to have been done with PDF.js in the hugo-embed-pdf-shortcode project)? Is that correct? Not suggesting I or anyone else should attempt this for the Adobe API, just checking I've understood correctly (I've never written a line of javascript nor shortcode!).

You're right, but keep in mind that, according to the setup guidelines you still need to include JS (take a look here).

[Daniel-Duffy]

Ok understood - thank you! I'll try the hugo-embed-pdf-shortcode :)