PDFObject
PDFObject 2.3.0 has been released and is available immediately on NPM and related CDNs. It continues to support all major browsers (even that pesky little IE11). There are quite a few improvements in 2.3, including switching to a pure iframe solution for more robust cross-browser support, and
Tools
I’ve been wanting to revamp pdfobject.com to make it more modern and easier to read. This type of revamp is also a great way to stay up to date on the latest trends, like static site generators. After surveying the field, I decided to play with some Vue-based
PDFObject
After almost eight years in the making (and nearly 7 years of procrastinating), PDFObject 2.0 has arrived. PDFObject is an open-source standards-friendly JavaScript utility for embedding PDF files into HTML documents. It’s like SWFObject, but for PDFs. Version 1.0 was released in 2008 and has enjoyed modest
JavaScript
PDFObject is a JavaScript utility I created in 2008 to embed PDFs in HTML documents. It was modeled on SWFObject. Three years have passed since PDFObject 1.0 was released, and the browser landscape has changed dramatically. I figured it’s time to dust off PDFObject and see if it
How-to
As a Mac user, one of the more annoying issues I frequently encounter is funky PDF handling in Firefox and Safari. For instance: * Adobe doesn’t make a version of Adobe Reader that’s compatible with Firefox on Mac OS X * Adobe Reader is only supported in 32-bit versions of
JavaScript
Update March 2011: PDFObject source code has been updated and moved to GitHub. I recently worked on an e-learning course that required embedding some PDFs into an HTML file. PDF embedding piqued my curiosity, and has become something of a pet project. It sounds simpler than it is. No, scratch