javascripthtmlservletsbrowser-plugin

How to embed a PDF in HTML page?

We would like to show the PDF document in an HTML page after retrieving it from the database via a servlet's doGet method.

Can anyone share some snippets on how to achieve this?

Solution

  • Non-html content apart from images needs to be retrieved using an object, embed or iframe tag

    1. iframe: <iframe src="somepage.pdf"></iframe>
    2. object/embed: <object src="somepage.pdf"><embed src="somepage.pdf"></embed></object>

    somepage.pdf could be somepage.jsp?filename=somepage&mimetype=application/pdf

    Here is an interesting link How to Embed Microsoft Office or PDF Documents in Web Pages

    and here is a stackoverflow search