PdfJsKit
PDF.js supercharged with custom themes
Integrate a PDF Viewer into your web project rapidly.
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Modern UI and new features on top of PDF.js.
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HTML5 zero-footprint PDF Viewer.
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Use any JS framework (React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Blazor etc).
PDF.js is a great open-source project which is frequently updated and new features are being added to, however looks-wise it’s ugly, or maybe let’s say it looks outdated. How about getting the latest PDF features and fixes from PDF.js but having a slick look on the presentation side?
Our pdf viewer is unobtrusive, we don’t directly change code of PDF.js, we just include PDF.js in an iframe and at runtime override HTML, JS and CSS to offer a slick modern look and better ui structure and usability and new features. This way we can always update PDF.js to the latest version easily and get all bug fixes and improvements.
Other pdf viewers based on PDF.js usually don’t update the default look, and the ones that does usually miss functionality due to separating into components but partially implementing them or offer a bad/partial API.
Getting started
Install the package to your project:
npm install pdfjskit
When the package is installed (or version is updated), assets (css, images etc.) used by PdfJsKit will be copied automatically from node_modules\pdfjskit\dist\pdfjskit to public\pdfjskit.
Your project’s public subdirectory is a common place for web assets, but if your JS framework has a different directory structure, you can move assets to another place.
By default PdfJsKit loads assets from pdfjskit subdirectory relative to host page but you can change this path via passing custom libraryPath option to PdfViewer constructor.
Usage
import PdfViewer from "pdfjskit";
var pdfViewer = new PdfViewer({
documentUrl: "pdfjskit/sample.pdf",
width: "80%",
height: 720,
resizable: true,
language: "en-US",
theme: "slate, classic-dark"
});
pdfViewer.render(document.getElementById("container"));
Note that the NPM package contains a ES6 module pdfjskit.min.mjs, we also provide a script version pdfjskit.min.js in GitHub dist/pdfjskit directory and in developer package offered here.