electron-pdf-window-s

electron-pdf-window-s

View pdf in new browser windows.

Install

Use npm or yarn:

# Use npm
npm install electron-pdf-window-s -D

# Use yarn
yarn add electron-pdf-window-s -D

Usage

A simple example:

const { app } = require('electron')

// Use defualt export so you could get intelligent completion
const PDFWindow = require('electron-pdf-window-s').default

app.on('ready', () => {
  const win = new PDFWindow({
    width: 800,
    height: 600
  })

  win.loadURL('http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/compressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf')
})

You will see pdf window is show.

new PDFWindow(options)

Create a pdf window instance. The option is same as BrowserWindow's option.

Then, you could use loadURL() to load a PDF file or url.

PDFWindow.viewerPath

Static property, specifies path for the pdfjs viewer.

Default is path.join(__dirname, '../viewer/web/viewer.html')

PDFWindow.addSupport(browserWindow)

Static method, enable normal BrowserWindow to support loading pdf by loadURL().

About electron-pdf-window

Special thanks to @gerhardberger. This project is based on his electron-pdf-window. But unfortunately, that library no longer seems to be maintained. So I froked it and created new one.

Differences between them

• Version of pdfjs viewer
• No listeners of will-navigate and new-window events anymore.
• Typescript support

Electron Support

At least >=8.0.0 version.

About PDFJS Viewer

Website: http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/

Version: Stable(v2.10.377)

Options wiki: Viewer options · mozilla/pdf.js Wiki

Changes in this library:

• Remove exmpale pdf file.
• Remove cross origin limit(Delete validateFileURL() function in viewer.js).

Support signature?

Now is unknow

We have modify some codes to support signature feature. But we didn't do that in the latest version.

LICENSE

MIT LICENSE

Changelog

2.0.1 - 2021-11-28

Changed

• Updated the issue of not using the default export in the usage examples.