Embed PDF In Html Iframe

What's the best alternatives to iFrames on a website from a UIUX perspective?

Agreed that iFrames are a flawed answer these days for all the reasons noted here. That said I still use it as a solution in one unique area of my resume website. The DemoSite section ( UX | Showcase | Demosites index ) which is a library of clickable wireframe models that Ive produced as part of my body of work. These 15 mini-sites (and they are actually small websites) were hand-tooled as protos models and gelines in a time before there were convenient tools - and before mobile was hip. Several are more than 1 years old. They were for in-house use by development teams marketing and business stakeholders. So all are designed for a desktop-monitor display environment. My dilemma Be able to display mini websites as a part of my body of work but preferably without losing the con of my own resume website. The iFrame is a decent solution - even with all of its limitations. Here what the drilldown tooks like (Ive outlined the iFrame in red) You can navigate withing the multi-page mini-site in the iFrame. The Index of Demosites button returns you to the Demosite menu The NIA Group under the Index button takes you directly to the case study in my portfolio. Is it apromised hack and a kluge? You bet. But it sorta works Here my Demosite disclaimer These are demosites italic . They are design gelines - Not finished products. The wireframes may be styled or raw (skeletal). Sometimes clients are looking for usability navigation IA and structure - rather than brand styling . Clickability italic is mostly for navigation and flow . Behavior is expressed but it may be limited or simply described. Content is mostly dummy data italic or placeholders. Styling italic plexity italic size italic and depth italic of the demosites vary as per client needs . The sites in this section do not scale gracefully italic if you are viewing on a mobile device (But you can scroll).

What are the risksdownsides of using iframes in a web application?

iFrames are generally not used and if so only for the reason that no other option is available. Use of iframes are often cautioned against because they are generally understood as providing no SEO value. But since the Googlebot has learned to read javascript and iframe content it might depend on the content of the iframe. If the content is another web page via an for the src property it won get indexed as being part of that page since it is already indexed at its original (or it would be considered duplicate content). So it provides no SEO value for the page. Embedded content such as via the srcdoc property might not have that issue. I don know. iFrames also have an issue with CSS. Your page CSS doesn apply to content within the iFrame. Similarily you can target a selector inside the iframe for Javanscript functions. Not being able to control the style and behavior of the iframe content is often a good reason not to use them. Generally they look out of place as well for that reason. iFrames can also cause unexpected behavior with the browser back and forward navigation. If the cursor is inside the iFrame that could disable the back and forward browser navigation for the parent page. If outside the iframe the back and forward browser navigation won work on the page history within the iframe. This issue can create a confusing user experience. The best alternative if possible is to code the content you want into the page. That way you have full control the content provides SEO value and the browser navigation always behaves as expected. There are cases where coding the content within the page is not possible. Suppose you wanted to set up a whitelabel storefront for resellers so they could use their own and brand within their own website. At first you might think it a good idea to create a brandless store then ask your resellers to use an iframe to it within their website. One problem with this approach in addition to the ones discussed above is that your brandless storefront will be public and online and probably get indexed by Google. You don want your reseller customers to find you right? That would ruin the entire point of whitelabelling it. The better solution is to create a client widget to access your content on headless server. They would include some Javascript in their page then position the content where they want in an empty div with a specific class name as your selector. Then the Javascript would populate it with the content from your whitelabel store. You could even have options and parameters for things like numbers of columns and rows and sizes of product. Since the Javascript is actually providing you the HTML and CSS within the reseller page they can then apply their CSS to style it consistently with their website. The only time to use an iframe that I can think of is when you want to display a non-HTML file which is also readable by the browser but you want to put it inside a container on your page usually a modal popup. You might do this for showing a PDF in a modal window when clicked since there is no way to the content of a PDF in HTML. You might think about doing something like that for an s can be shown within HTML so it would be better to give them an HTML wrapper. That way you could also add your own navigation.

Is there an open source reporting solution like Jasper or Pentaho that supports web embedding (not IFrame)?

So Im not 1% sure I understand what youre asking for but if you want to just display a PDF in a webpage < src=s ='application' code That about it. If for some reason you can do that or don want to use < code then you can use something like this See Here s And Here mozilla s That will take any PDF and render it for you in the browser. _____________________________________________________________________________ THIS NEXT SECTION IS WHAT I WOULD USE FOR CREATING THE PDF italic NOT JUST FOR EMBEDDING IT.n italic _____________________________________________________________________________ PDFMake See Here PDFMake Im going to guess that this is exactly what you want it can be in your HTML frontend AND generate PDF files without involving the server. It is also happy to run on the server if that prefered. PDFMake is feature rich works in the browser AND server side. Your PDFs will look great it easy to and configuration is easy. In my case I wasn able to use this in my most recent reporting project because we have specific scenarios that prevented PDFMake from being an option. However for mostpanies and individuals out there this is a great option. WkHtmlToPDF (My Favorite) See here wkhtmltoPDF s This is the best general PDF tool that Ive used. Seriously WkHhmlToPDF is a solid tool. It uses Webkit (the WK) to convert HTML directly to a PDF. It will run JavaScript has extensive CSS support runs very fast for what it does. It supports any font you want (even Asian and Cyrillic fonts). The PDFs are portable as well because WkHtmlToPDF creates an Embedded Subset of the font the result is portability without taking up too much space. I believe that the fonts DO need to be installed on the server running WkHtmlToPDF for it to them correctly though. So Fonts in the CSS won work if you want the PDF to have consistent fonts on different machines (even those without the desired font installed. You can really Embed the PDF into the webpage (Although Im not 1% sure what you mean by that. One way to do what I think you want would be to have a function that collects the HTML you need from the page and then passes that HTML to an endpoint on your server that then talks to WkHtmlToPDF (via systemmand line) and returns the PDF that generated. There are several wrappers make interaction with WkHtmlToPDF very easy via Java NodeJS C++ or really whatever youre using. Downsides include the fact that you normally have to talk to WkHtmlToPDF via themand line which means you have to install the package on your production server. Not a huge deal IMO but sometimes devops people don like that. I work for a securitypany and we were able to do this safely. I plan on making a Java wrapper for WkHtmlToPDF that doesn use themand line at some point. I will edit this answer if I ever get around to it with a to my project. I hope this is what you needed. If not it was fun writing it out anyway!

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