[Plugin: Embed PDF] Embeds in FF, but IE screws up the hypertext

An update. I asked a few friends if they could see my embedded pdf OK. I got amazingly variable results. Anyone using Mac/Safari, or Firefox, was OK (excepting my son with a very old FF). MSIE users showed a lot of variation, even with the same combination of IE version and OS. Only one (apart from Pat Hawks) using IE9 with Win7 found it worked OK – @travellers, myself (using IE9/VistaBiz) and two others found problems. Two using IE8 with XP Pro were OK, mixed results with IE7, not working with IE6 (only one).
I’m mystified!

https://www.alanhowesworld.com/?page_id=32 Works fine for me in IE9 on Win7

I wonder if this is a problem with security settings on IE. Perhaps IE is blocking iframe content from third party domains?

Can you post a screenshot of what, exactly, you see when it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer?

OK, the screenshot is here. (Hope it works!) When I first navigate to the page in question, a “loading” bar appears. Some contacts report seeing the toolbar but no pdf image, some also get the slider but still no image – some get nothing!

I tried altering my IE9 security settings and restarting IE – I enabled “Launch Programs and files in an IFRAME”. It warned me my computer was at risk, but still did not show the pdf image.

Of course I can, and will, put in a direct link to the pdf in a new window, which I am sure will suit 99% of my viewers – not sure why that had not occurred to me before!

Sorry, that link to the screenshot does not work. The link code text is obviously case-sensitive. Try this one instead. (Is there an easier way to do this?)

Hi all
Having the same problem with IE. I’ve tested with IE 7, 8, and 9 with no success. Also tried to test the page in this tool:
https://netrenderer.com/index.php
I’m going to try changing security settings and will let you know.
thanks,
Frank

Oh help! I’ve been away from this problem for some time – now I come back, EVERYTHING has changed. (And I have forgotten where I was …) What have you done, Pat? The Changelog gives no clue.

Now, the embedded pdf at https://www.alanhowesworld.com/cv/ is NOT working in Firefox (which always worked fine), but I find that it IS working with MSIE. Though what I see in MSIE is rather different from what I used to see in Firefox – I now get all six pages scrolling after each other, and instead of a right-justified toolbar above the window I get an Adobe-reader-style toolbar within the window, only visible on mouseover.

Oh, and my son using MSIE9 with Win7 says he still can’t see it! My faith in this plugin has plumetted …

That’s a useful tool Frank – is there anything for other browsers?

I am speechless.

https://www.alanhowesworld.com/cv/ is working just fine for me in Firefox, and any other browser I have installed.

Since there are so many reported, but not easily reproducible, errors with this plugin, I am thinking about dropping support for it.

It works fine for me and my clients.
If it works for you, wonderful.
If something else works better for you, by all means, use that. I’d love to know what you’ve found that works better,

I’m sorry Pat – it must be discouraging. I can only report what I find …

I can confirm this a is a problem in ie9 due to the ie9 pdf plugin not being ready, since adobe released the acrobat x version.

IE still sucks.

I found a solution, though it does not use dirty suds plugin, because this is an IE problem possibly related https://forums.adobe.com/thread/758489 .

Instead of using [embed] I use <iframe> and it works fine in ie and on localhost.

In order to embed pdf files I just use a custom function, so when you clcik the “insert into post” button it will wrap it in an iframe.

you can see it here (and set width, height, etc accordingly).
https://gist.github.com/2008010

The iframe method is unsuitable if there is a chance that a user would not have Adobe Reader installed. In these situations, the IE will prompt the user to download the PDF instead of displaying it inline.

I had the same problem and I think I just solved it.

Check if your PDF file is named as non-alphabet(non English) name.
If so, rename it in English.

My PDF had originally Japanese characters. When I upload this file with foreign characters to media library on WordPress, it gave me URL of this pdf file with a bunch of “%%%” because I think it doesn’t understand Japanese. Once I changed the name and resaved it, it should show just fine with IE.

I hope this will help.