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Miran Urbas
Miran Urbas

Reputation: 113

electron pdf window doesnt work after build

I'm trying to open pdf in electron app with electron-pdf-window. Its working fine before build but when i build app as installer .exe file for windows and install exe file on windows 8.1 , its not showing pdf window, i am using it through renderer process on click of anchor. Any ideas? here is my code

   function pdfWindow() {
    const { BrowserWindow } = require('electron').remote
    const PDFWindow = require('electron-pdf-window')
    const win = new BrowserWindow({ width: 800, height: 800 })
    PDFWindow.addSupport(win)
    win.loadURL('http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/compressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf')
}

and i am calling this function on click of anchor tag

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1611

Answers (1)

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 8176

If you're using the latest Electron 1.8 or newer, it has built in PDF support in BrowserWindow's and <webview> tags. You just have to ensure plugins are enabled:

BrowserWindow

const window = new BrowserWindow({
  width: 1024,
  height: 800,
  webPreferences: {
    plugins: true
  }
});

window.loadURL('path/to/file.pdf');

<webview> Tag

<webview src="path/to/file.pdf" plugins></webview>

Upvotes: 1

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