Sorry for the silly question, but I am having a difficult time understanding the PDF class for web projects. I do understand the need to set up a new PDFDocument and use the graphics class to create whatever you want, but what I am stuck on is how do you display it in the browser? On desktop, you …

I think I found what I needed. [image] How To Download and Preview PDFs in Xojo Web Apps – Xojo Programming Blog

Not every browser supports displaying PDF directly the way that blog post suggests. Availability of that functionality depends on the system and installed software. There are Javascript controls that reliably display PDF. It would benefit Xojo to add one. You could look at PDF.js or if you’re able …

this should answer your question… [image] GitHub - JYPochez/Xojo-VNS-PDFJS-WebViewer: A xojo websdk to display pdf using mozilla pdf.js A xojo websdk to display pdf using mozilla pdf.js

I don’t believe Tim is part of the forums any longer so hopefully someone else can chime in here for you.

Do you have a xojo example using this?

there is a xojo web project in the given github link. and instructions to use it in another project

Between @Anthony_G_Cyphers ’s GraffitiSuite and the open source control shared by @Jean-Yves_Pochez , that should be enough, but as we have a MobilePDFViewer , please feel free to create a Feature Request to add a PDF Viewer to Web and/or desktop projects.

I use @Anthony_G_Cyphers GraffitiSuite and the PDF viewer works just fine. It does cost some $ but it is money well spent.

Getting started with PDF documents in web project

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Jean-Yves_Pochez (Jean-Yves Pochez) October 5, 2026, 9:07am 6

this should answer your question…

There has got to be a way to display an already existing pdf file in web