[Plugin: Google Doc Embedder] Documents do not display any more.

Sorry, k3davis – I just had to go with something else that would work more consistently (used <embed src=”https://www.pdfsource.pdf&#8221; width=”500″ height=”600″>).
Thanks for your response anyway.

This seems to be a Firefox’s (15) issue.
The Google viewer (https://docs.google.com/viewer) itself was not working (JS error) for the last few hours. Now it seems to be fixed.
However on FF 15 it shows just some gray blobs for pages.

@vitavital, Unfortunately I can’t speak to that, as Firefox 15 is beta software. Hopefully it will be fixed. If Google’s viewer is broken when the browser is released, that would be a big problem for the two companies to work out. But it’s too soon to say.

Are you having the problem on Firefox 14 (or any other stable release browser)? Can you share the details?

Hi. Just want to say that GDE plugin works great in Firefox 14. But in Safari 6 the pdf has vanished to. Is there something I can do to fix this? Doesn’t show up on iPad browser too. The page url is: https://www.anura.dk/curriculum-vitae/

What do you mean by “vanished”? (Error message, either inline or in the page source at the viewer location?) I see you’re using the standard viewer also, does the “enhanced” behave any differently? I don’t have any device to test that particular environment.

the only thing that shows is the download link. But the pdf view is gone.

@michael S. and @k3davis
Confirming that GDE doesn’t work on https://www.anura.dk/curriculum-vitae/ on FF 15.
However this is not a GDE issue but a GDV (Google Doc Viewer) one. Hopefully Google and the browsers involved will sort it out whose fault it is, and soon.

@vitalvital,

I installed FF 15 in a virtual machine and saw the empty gray box under the toolbar, the “loading” imaged finished then the area remained blank. Investigating it with firebug I noted one of the net requests (the one to the document itself) was labeled as “Aborted”. Then I copied that URL into a new tab and got a security warning, saying that site’s security certificate expired on 7/25. I added a security exception, reloaded the page and saw the document normally. Then I looked at the certificate installed and a new one was issued on 7/25. Seems FF 15 isn’t picking up that cert automatically for some reason, but once forced, it’s normal. I would chaulk that particular problem up to a bug in the beta of Firefox (15b3).

@michael S., it seems Safari 6 is not available on Windows, and I don’t have an ipad (quite happily), so I don’t know what more to do there…

Sorry for my quick respond before. Just tested the enhanced mode. And now the viewer is showing without the pdf. It looks like the viewer is getting the correct data, because it shows the correct amount of pages. Now it’s only the pdf file which is not visible.

About Safari 6 it is true its not out there for Windows yet. Hopefully someday it will. But It just feels strange to me, that the viewer is visible but not the pdf. Do you think it has something to do with the certificate? In FF 14.0.1 it all seems to be working correctly.

Oh yeahh. One last thing. a month ago, the viewer worked perfectly on the iPad. So I thought that the problem was within the plugin or WordPress. Although I have not upgraded to the latest WordPress version.

It may be certificate related, I don’t know. From what I read, Safari 6 has a Developer menu that may allow you to monitor network traffic of your requests. You could turn that on and reload the page, and see where it may be failing – denied URLs, javascript errors, or whatever – whether you know what they mean or not, it might help determine where the “fault” lies. I wish I could test this for you, but I don’t have access to either an ipad or Safari 6. If anyone else on here does and wants to chime in, I’d welcome it.

OK. Just found the developer menu and got this:

TypeError: ‘undefined’ is not an object (evaluating ‘this.D[f].a’) proxy.php:474
TypeError: ‘undefined’ is not an object (evaluating ‘a.D[a.H].a’) proxy.php:503

Is this something you understand?

Update: I tried to reload the page again this morning and on my own pc the pdf file showed up in the viewer. I then tried my girlfriends computer and there the pdf is not showing, but the viewer does. Can it be something with the loading time? Can there be a limit or something that prevent the file to be loaded correctly?

Again thank you for your time. I understand if you cannot solve it, and it is a browser issue. It’s still one of the best plugins out there.

The JavaScript error you mentioned is similar to (or the same as) the one I experienced on FF15 beta before the certificate problem was resolved. There is some practical limitation to the size of the files supported, but if your file is indeed 3.44MB as your page indicates this is unlikely to be the case, unless one was on a very slow connection. Usually files up to 7-8MB show up with minimal fuss, and sometimes several sizes larger.

I’ll keep my attention on this in case there is some trend in the kind of support requests I receive, but I’m afraid at the moment I’m at a dead end in what I can examine about this particular environment. I appreciate your understanding and patience with this. I certainly would like to resolve all issues possible, but some are simply beyond my control as an embedder of a third-party product.

I have just noticed that it wouldnt work on one of my comps but works on the others. then i looked at the source on the one it didnt work on and saw that it said UserAuth: False; or something like that. first instinct was to login to my google account and of course it worked fine after that.

Is there any way to make it so that there is no Authentication. i dont want my users to have to be logged in to google to see the pdfs.