Mike Doherty

<h3>Basic use</h3>
<p>To embed a PDF you’ve uploaded to your WordPress site’s media<br />
library, simply put the URL for the attachment page in your<br />
post on its own line. The PDF will be embedded with the<br />
default settings at that location, as if it were using oEmbed.</p>
<h4>Examples:</h4>
<pre><code>Post short URL:

http://localhost/?p=9

Attachment default URL:

http://localhost/?attachment_id=9

Attachment pretty URL:

http://localhost/test/report1/

Media direct URL:

<p><a href="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/report1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">Click to access report1.pdf</a></p>
</code></pre>
<p>This doesn’t work for PDFs hosted on other websites, or if you<br />
need to change the parameters.</p>
<h3>Using the <code>[pdf]</code> shorttag</h3>
<p>If the PDF isn’t in your WordPress site’s media library, or if<br />
you want to customize any parameters for the embed, then use<br />
the <code>[pdf]...[/pdf]</code> shorttag. Between the tags, you’ll provide<br />
the URL for the PDF to embed. If the PDF is in your WordPress<br />
site’s media library, you can either give the attachment page<br />
URL, or the URL to the PDF file directly.</p>
<p>The <code>[pdf]</code> shorttag accepts several optional parameters:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>width</code> – sets the width of the frame the PDF is embedded in.<br />
By default, this is set to 100%.</li>
<li><code>height</code> – sets the height of the frame the PDF is embedded<br />
in. By default, this is unset.</li>
<li><code>title</code> – sets the title of the PDF, for use in the fallback<br />
link text.</li>
<li><code>open_params</code> – sets the <a href="https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">PDF open params</a><br />
which control how the PDF file is displayed in the embed frame.<br />
These are poorly supported in browsers.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples:</h4>
<pre><code>Post short URL: [pdf width="200px"]http://localhost/?p=9[/pdf]
Attachment default URL: [pdf height="500em"]http://localhost/?attachment_id=9[/pdf]
Attachment pretty URL: [pdf title="Report 1"]http://localhost/test/report1/[/pdf]
Media direct URL: [pdf]http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/report1.pdf[/pdf]
Change PDF open params: [pdf open_params="page=10&view=Fit"]http://localhost/?p=9[/pdf]
</code></pre>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>The PDF should be embedded in the page, with the document scaled so it fills the<br />
embed frame horizontally. Unfortunately, embedding PDFs is not well-supported.</p>
<h4>Auto-loading embedded PDFs</h4>
<p>Unlike with images, web browsers may not automatically download and display<br />
embedded PDFs when the page is loaded. For security reasons, some users prefer<br />
not to allow the PDF plugin to run unless they trust the website the PDF comes<br />
from. This generally leaves a grey rectangle that the user may click on to allow<br />
the PDF to be downloaded and displayed.</p>
<h4>PDF open parameters</h4>
<p>As of v0.0.8, you can set the <a href="https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">PDF open parameters</a><br />
by setting <code>open_params</code> in the shortcode, as shown above. This is unlikely to actually<br />
anything, since PDF open parameters are poorly supported in browsers. But you can try!<br />
Provide the parameters as a query string: <code>page=1&view=Fit</code>. Refer to the Adobe<br />
documentation on what parameters are available.</p>
<h4>Chrome</h4>
<p>The PDF should be scaled/zoomed within the embed frame so that the full<br />
horizontal width of the paper fills the frame. This is <a href="https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=64309" rel="nofollow ugc">not<br />
supported</a> in<br />
Chrome’s default PDF viewer, so the document will probably be scaled to 100%,<br />
which may either mean the document doesn’t fill the frame, or, more likely, the<br />
document is too wide for the frame, and the right-hand side of the document is<br />
hidden.</p>
<h4>Internet Explorer</h4>
<p>Internet Explorer requires a PDF plugin to render embedded PDFs. Generally,<br />
that’s Adobe Reader. Without such a plugin, the fallback download link will be<br />
used.</p>
<h4>Mobile browsers</h4>
<p>In particular, mobile browsers may show a grey box instead of the embedded PDF,<br />
and will download the file when it is clicked. Other mobile browsers might embed<br />
the PDF, but won’t allow it to scroll.</p>
<h3>Alternatives</h3>
<p>Your best alternative is to <strong>not</strong> embed PDFs. PDFs are bad for many reasons:<br />
not easily indexed by search engines, not easily accessible by readers who use<br />
assistive technologies, poorly supported by web browsers (as seen above) and so<br />
on. They’re just <strong>bad</strong> and you should avoid embedding PDFs if you can.</p>
<p>If you <em>really</em> can’t, then you might consider using another solution like<br />
<a href="https://pdfobject.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://pdfobject.com/</a> or <a href="https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/pdfjs/" rel="nofollow ugc">PDF.js</a>.</p>


Vanilla PDF Embed

Embeds PDFs in your pages and posts, without using JS.

antongorodezkiy

TeamleadPower

<p>Plugin allows you to embed normal, big and very big pdf documents to the wordpress site as flipbooks with thumbnail navigation.</p>
<p><a href="http://pdf-light-viewer.wp.teamlead.pw/" rel="nofollow ugc">Website</a> | <a href="http://pdf-light-viewer.wp.teamlead.pw/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a> | <a href="http://pdf-light-viewer.wp.teamlead.pw/wp-content/plugins/pdf-light-viewer/documentation/index.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Docs</a> | <a href="http://codecanyon.net/item/pdf-light-viewer-pro-addon/14089505" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO Addon Features</a> | <a href="http://support.wp.teamlead.pw/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a></p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited PDF files.</li>
<li>Unlimited PDF file size without site performance issues.</li>
<li>Turn.js flipbook integrated.</li>
<li>Dashboard flipbook preview.</li>
<li>Slider thumbnails navigation integrated.</li>
<li>Lazy loading pages integrated.</li>
<li>Pages zoom.</li>
<li>Pages navigation.</li>
<li>Fulscreen feature (for modern browsers).</li>
<li>s2member compatible.</li>
<li>Developer-friendly.</li>
<li><a href="http://pdf-light-viewer.wp.teamlead.pw/wp-content/plugins/pdf-light-viewer/documentation/index.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Well-documented</a>.</li>
<li>Fully translatable to any language using .po files.</li>
<li>Supports wordpress multisites</li>
<li>Responsive design</li>
<li>Clear default look</li>
<li>CLI integration</li>
<li>Bulk PDF Import</li>
<li>PDF Downloading</li>
<li>Per-page downloading in JPEG or PDF</li>
<li>Imagick or Gmagick support</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="http://pdf-light-viewer.wp.teamlead.pw/serverless/" rel="nofollow ugc">Serverless Addon</a> Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Plugin allows you to embed PDF files without server libraries ImageMagick and GhostScript</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="http://codecanyon.net/item/pdf-light-viewer-pro-addon/14089505" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO Addon</a> Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Single separate PDF page.</li>
<li>Regular WordPress PDF Archive page with 2 templates.</li>
<li>One-page PDF Archive page with 2 templates.</li>
<li>PDF Archive page by shortcode on custom page or frontpage.</li>
<li>PDF Categories.</li>
<li>Simple PDF page search.</li>
<li>Document printing.</li>
<li>Per-page printing.</li>
<li>SEO friendly mode.</li>
<li>All PDFs search (beta)</li>
<li>PDF in popup (beta)</li>
<li>Dark theme</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.12 – 2021-09-13</h3>
<ul>
<li>GhostScript parameter escaping fix (thanks to @apple502j, Robert Rowley, wpscan.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.11 – 2021-08-31</h3>
<ul>
<li>GhostScript parameter escaping fix (thanks to @apple502j, Robert Rowley, wpscan.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.10 – 2021-03-17</h3>
<ul>
<li>mobile touch navigation fix</li>
<li>magazine viewport resize fix</li>
<li>fullscreen resize fix for magazines limited by height</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.9 – 2020-11-19</h3>
<ul>
<li>PDF Light Viewer PRO Addon 0.4.0 compatibility</li>
<li>added PDF existance check for the CLI import command</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.8 – 2020-10-26</h3>
<ul>
<li>jquery compatibility fix</li>
<li>ghostscript 9.50 compatibility fixes</li>
<li>better error logging for imagemagick errors</li>
<li>better error log preview</li>
<li>fixed import progress error</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.7 – 2019-07-03</h3>
<ul>
<li>php fix for directory helper</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.6 – 2019-05-13</h3>
<ul>
<li>more translations escaping</li>
<li>updated asset dependencies</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.5 – 2019-03-25</h3>
<ul>
<li>added translations escaping</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.4 – 2019-03-07</h3>
<ul>
<li>dynamic page height fix</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.3 – 2019-03-06</h3>
<ul>
<li>javascript code fixes</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.2 – 2019-03-06</h3>
<ul>
<li>php code fixes</li>
<li>dymanic page size ratio improvement</li>
<li>quick edit added</li>
<li>bulk edit added</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.1 – 2019-01-28</h3>
<ul>
<li>disable_images_preloading setting added</li>
<li>Fix for usage example</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.0 – 2019-01-12</h3>
<ul>
<li>Code structure cleaning up</li>
<li>PDF Light Viewer Serverless plugin compatibility</li>
<li>Export/Import PDF config</li>
<li>screenfull update</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.23 – 2018-09-18</h3>
<ul>
<li>Option to disable lazy loading to prevent issues when using other lazy loading systems (e.g. Jetpack)</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.22 – 2018-07-08</h3>
<ul>
<li>fix PHP 5.3 compatibility</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.21 – 2018-06-29</h3>
<ul>
<li>Convert colors option added to the PDF import</li>
<li>PDF_LIGHT_VIEWER_GHOSTSCRIPT_PATH constant for GhostScript binary</li>
<li>Docs update</li>
<li>CLI options fix</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.20 – 2018-02-06</h3>
<ul>
<li>PDF Light Viewer Pro Addon 0.1.7 compatibility</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.19 – 2017-09-11</h3>
<ul>
<li>First page thumbnail bug fix</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.18 – 2017-07-27</h3>
<ul>
<li>PDF support improvement</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.17 – 2017-03-29</h3>
<ul>
<li>Private PDFs fix</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.16 – 2017-02-10</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix for ghostscript usage during the import (for wrong resolution issue)</li>
<li>Setting to force two-pages layout for some screen sizes</li>
<li>Enable/disable Zoom interactively</li>
<li>Zoom magnify option</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.15 – 2017-01-19</h3>
<ul>
<li>Stop import possibility</li>
<li>Assets enqueue improvement</li>
<li>Added French translation (R. Valentin)</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.14 – 2016-11-25</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add setting to turn on/off url flipbook navigation</li>
<li>JS function to recalculate sizes</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.13 – 2016-09-18</h3>
<ul>
<li>fix PHP 5.3 compatibility</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.12 – 2016-11-16</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added shortcode to enqueue assets in widgets</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.11 – 2016-11-11</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added assets limit conditions and filter</li>
<li>GraphicsMagick: Low quality for resulting images fix</li>
<li>Improve page images preloading</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.10 – 2016-10-03</h3>
<ul>
<li>Option to adjust result images size</li>
<li>Fixed bug with resulting image quality</li>
<li>Mobile styles improvements</li>
<li>Fixed php error when server has no Imagick/Gmagick</li>
<li>Fixed javascript bug in IE</li>
<li>Changed file upload field to prevent url pasting</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.9 – 2016-09-11</h3>
<ul>
<li>fix PHP 5.3 compatibility</li>
<li>preload page images</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.8 – 2016-09-02</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improved and fixed Gmagick support</li>
<li>Added control for imagemagick/graphicsmagick switching</li>
<li>Improved single page PDF download</li>
<li>Added maximum viewer height setting</li>
<li>Added go to page functionality</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.7 – 2016-08-25</h3>
<ul>
<li>Post including logic improved</li>
<li>Settings page help small improvements</li>
<li>Smallfix for function type</li>
<li>Documentation update</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.6 – 2016-08-19</h3>
<ul>
<li>Make password protection work</li>
<li>Single page PDF download</li>
<li>Fixing minor php errors</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.5 – 2016-07-31</h3>
<ul>
<li>Adjustable viewer height</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.3.4 – 2016-07-08</h3>
<ul>
<li>CLI import fix</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.3 – 2016-06-24</h4>
<ul>
<li>CMB2 compatibility pull request merged</li>
<li>toolbar fix</li>
<li>pre-page download fix</li>
<li>fullscreen fix</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.2 – 2016-06-22</h4>
<ul>
<li>per page download in toolbar</li>
<li>page numbers bugfixing</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.1 – 2016-06-21</h4>
<ul>
<li>GraphicsMagick alternative support</li>
<li>Page numbers in toolbar</li>
<li>Control arrows in toolbar</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.0 – 2016-06-07</h4>
<ul>
<li>CMB to CMB2 dependency upgrade</li>
<li>imagetragick notification added</li>
<li>hide button for welcome notification</li>
<li>templates structure improvements</li>
<li>added import of only specific pages</li>
<li>per-page downloading</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.7 – 2016-04-27</h4>
<ul>
<li>added maximum book width setting</li>
<li>fix PHP 5.3 compatibility</li>
<li>improved fullscreen mode</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.6 – 2016-04-22</h4>
<ul>
<li>Simple Line Icons conflict fix</li>
<li>fix for compatibility with Magazon and other themes</li>
<li>Smart Manager compatibility fix</li>
<li>Mailpoet compatibility fix</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.5 – 2016-04-14</h4>
<ul>
<li>improve colors and/or colorspaces of resulting images</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.4 – 2016-03-21</h4>
<ul>
<li>option to display with a single page layout only</li>
<li>hide top toolbar when there are no icons</li>
<li>categories for PDFs</li>
<li>additional template to display thumbnail carousel at the top instead of the bottom</li>
<li>enhance full screen function in Chrome and IE</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.3 – 2016-01-20</h4>
<ul>
<li>integration with WP CLI</li>
<li>added CLI command bulk-import</li>
<li>fixed missing font-awesome css</li>
<li>icons compatibility fix</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.2 – 2015-12-25</h4>
<ul>
<li>fixing issue with 404 links in pagination</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.1 – 2015-12-18</h4>
<ul>
<li>bugfixing pro addon compatibility</li>
<li>design improvements</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.0 – 2015-12-14</h4>
<ul>
<li>PHP 5.3 is now required instead of PHP 5.2</li>
<li>Design improvements</li>
<li>Changed icon set from FontAwesome to Simple Line Icons</li>
<li>Fixed admin notifications handling</li>
<li>Refactoring, improved code logic</li>
<li>Added compatibility with PRO Addon</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.7 – 2015-12-05</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed bug when 2nd page in a 2-page pdf not displayed in thumbnails</li>
<li>Pages limit bug</li>
<li>Fixed typos</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.6 – 2015-11-22</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improvements for lazy loading pages</li>
<li>Enabled zoom for fullscreen mode</li>
<li>Improvements to detect GhosScript installation on Unix-like systems</li>
<li>Improvements for settings page</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.5 – 2015-09-03</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixes for compatibility with themes/plugins which are using humanmade/Custom-Meta-Boxes</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.4 – 2015-09-03</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed bug for metaboxes on Import page (when Import page shows only title)</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.3 – 2015-08-04</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added responsiveness for tablet and phones</li>
<li>Improved fullscreen mode</li>
<li>Hiding fullscreen button for browsers without Fullscreen API support</li>
<li>Fixing lazyload issues – thanks to Amit for reporting the issue</li>
<li>Some interface improvements – thanks to zipzit</li>
<li>BX Slider wrong path #3 – fixed</li>
<li>pdf-light-viewer template is not functional from user’s theme. #5 – fixed</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.1-1.1.2 – 2015-07-15</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added information about GhostScript to the documentation – thanks to Alexander</li>
<li>Improved requirements section</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.0 – 2015-06-02</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improved CMYK PDF import</li>
<li>Improved admin import status messages</li>
<li>Added landscape PDF support</li>
<li>Fixed some bugs with images sizing</li>
<li>Increased default image sizes</li>
<li>Added page zoom for flipbooks</li>
<li>Added compatibility for 2 or more instances of plugin on the same page</li>
<li>Added options to disable zoom and fullscreen</li>
<li>Updated client side libraries</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.1 – 2015-01-14</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed PHP errors</li>
<li>Added docs explanation for Visual Composer How-To and “Imagick is not supported” requirement error</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0 – 2014-11-26</h4>
<p>The plugin released</p>


WordPress PDF Light Viewer Plugin

I'm using this plugins for several years and it works like a charm!
Really do easilly what it should... displaying your pdf files in your WordPress website.
The plugin author also answer very quickly to my support on this forum.

You can go and use it without problems

Great Plugin with great support

Simple and great plugin.

Plugin allows you to embed normal, big and very big pdf documents to the wordpress site as flipbooks with thumbnail navigation.

Vanilla PDF Embed vs WordPress PDF Light Viewer Plugin