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Tim van der Meij edited this page Jul 27, 2013 · 23 revisions

Options for PDF.js's viewer that can be given at the URL level. Multiple values of either type can be combined by separating with an ampersand (&) after the hash (example: #page=2&textLayer=off).

Options after the ?

Example: http://www.example.com/pdf.js?file=myfile.pdf

  • file: the filename of the PDF file to use (must be on the same server due to JavaScript limitations). Example: file=myfile.pdf

Options after the #

Example: http://www.example.com/pdf.js#page=2

  • page: page number. Example: page=2
    • zoom: zoom level. Example: zoom=200
  • nameddest: go to a named destionation
  • pagemode: either "thumbs" or "bookmarks". Example: pagemode=thumbs
  • disableWorker: set to true to disable web workers. Example: disableWorker=true
  • disableRange: set to true to disable range requests. Example: disableRange=true
  • disableAutoFetch
  • locale: use another locale than the default. Example: locale=nl
  • textLayer: set to one of the following. Example: textLayer=off
    • off: disable textLayer generation
    • visible, shadow, hover: apply the CSS class textlayer-<value> to all text layers
  • pdfBug: handle PDF bugs
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