Come on guys . . . . This can’t be impossible. I can create a pdf and display it, but I can’t seem to display one that already exists

I have GraffitiPDFViewer as part of GraffitiSuite Web Edition.

in my vns fpdf project, you display a pdf in a preview window (in desktop but should be easy to port on other platforms) GitHub - JYPochez/Xojo-VNS-fpdf-Library: A Xojo port of the popular FPDF library... main A Xojo port of the popular FPDF library for PDF generation, supporting Desk…

I haven’t tested this so I’m only speculating, but can you not open it in a WebHTMLViewer (or target a _blank window), and use HandleURL to send it with mime type “application/pdf”?

@John_Scanlan , You can display an existing PDF file in the HTMLViewer using HTMLViewer.LoadURL. It works a bit differently depending on where your file lives. If your PDF lives on a CDN (for those with 1,000s of PDFs), you would simply call (after authenticating for private CDNs). HTMLViewer1.Lo…

sorry for my post above it is for desktop, and I did not see you asked for web. but in your other post, I answered with my new web project for using mozilla pdf.js it works fine with web projects, and can display url, local, pdf. [image] Getting started with PDF documents i…

if you have the MBS Xojo DynaPDF Plugin with a Pro license, you can render the PDF pages as pictures and show them. This way users can see them, but not get the PDF saved in the browser unless you explicitly code that.

This code matches, but it’s not showing (in debug mode): var f as folderItem = app.helpFiles.child(“Notes - Login.pdf”) If f <> nil And f.exists Then try var pdfFile as webFile = webfile.open(f) pdfFile.mimeType = “application/pdf” pdfFile.fileName = “Notes - Login.pdf” pdfFile.forceDownload …

[image] John Scanlan: This code matches It doesn’t. Your code differs from the working example I provided. [image] John Scanlan: var pdfFile as webFile = webfile.open(f) This will go out of scope before it loads. [image] Andrew Paul Dickey: On the web page containing your HTMLVie…

The last bit I needed was making pdfFile a property of the page. thanks,

I’m an amateur. I’m good at but still an amateur, so questions: what do I download and what do I do with it? will this work on an iPhone to show the entire pdf? (iPhone only shows one page).

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

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John_Scanlan (John Scanlan) October 10, 2026, 9:13pm 15

So, where in the folder do I put it?