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Tim van der Meij edited this page Mar 7, 2019 · 3 revisions

Below are the options for the PDF.js viewer that can be given at URL level. Multiple values of either type can be combined by separating with an ampersand (&) after the hash (for example: #page=2&zoom=200).

Options after the #

Example: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html#page=2

  • page: page number. Example: page=2
  • zoom: zoom level. Example: zoom=200 (accepted formats: [zoom],[left offset],[top offset], page-width, page-height, page-fit, auto)
  • nameddest: go to a named destination
  • pagemode: sidebar state. Example: pagemode=none (accepted values: none, thumbs, bookmarks, attachments)

Options after the ?

Example: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=compressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf

  • file: the path of the PDF file to use (must be on the same server due to JavaScript limitations). Please notice that the path/URL must be encoded using encodeURIComponent, e.g. /viewer.html?file=%2Fpdf.js%2Fweb%2Fcompressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf
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