Opening PDFs at full screen

  • Resolved landrenic

    (@landrenic)


    3 years, 7 months ago

    I have a client who wishes to have links to PDFs open in a new window – at full screen.

    Opening in a new window is not a problem, that’s easy enough.

    I have not, however, found a workable solution to having the PDF open at full screen in the new browser window. Is this even possible, or will it always be subject to the individual user’s browser preferences?

    Thank you in advance.

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  • Hi @landrenic,

    Are you referring to the size of the browsers window? That’s controlled by the browser itself, it’s not something you can set.

    Hope this helps.

    Kind Regards,
    Tim

    Thread Starter landrenic

    (@landrenic)

    Thanks. No. When the PDF opens in a new window, the client wants the PDF to fill the entire browser window. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t: sometimes you have to change the view to see it all, sometimes it shows up as ‘fit to page’ so you can see the entire page at once. This seems to be dependent upon the settings in the browser’s PDF reader. However, I don’t want to tell the client we can’t do this until I know for sure.

    Thanks!

    Hi @landrenic,

    Ah, yes. You are right, it is based on the visitor (or browsers) PDF reader. I believe there are ways around it if, for example, you created a page and embedded the PDF inside of it.

    I have seen similar done with plugins such as the below.
    https://en-gb.www.ads-software.com/plugins/pdf-embedder/

    Does that help?

    Kind Regards,
    Tim

    Thread Starter landrenic

    (@landrenic)

    Tim,
    That helps greatly, thank you. We can give that a whirl. I don’t understand why this is a ‘thing’ for this client … but it is! So, I’ll see if this works for our purposes.

    Thanks so much!

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by landrenic.

    All clients have their quirks! ??

    Good luck!

    Kind Regards,
    Tim

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