Ideas for Arc XP

PDF - Feature for Composer

We'd like to have a native way to embed PDF documents into article bodies. We can do this through sources such as documentcloud.org but that becomes messy with code pasting and unpredictable results at times. A way to upload, store, and display PDF in the article page as an embed is the goal.

  • Clay McNeill
  • Nov 20 2019
  • Future consideration
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  • Guest commented
    21 Aug 17:11

    Hey Clay,

    Our development team created a power-up connected to Google Drive for uploading PDFs, and it turned out great! The users are really happy with it. It allows them to read the PDF directly from the article, download it, or even open it on their mobile devices.

    I think a new feature like this is pretty awesome.



  • J. T. commented
    31 Jul 09:03

    That would be great. We are in the process of implementing our external PDF viewer outside of the ArcXP framework to have this specific feature (also because the current fusion build system has problems with including a few modern PDF viewer packages to the build).


    It would also be good to have a specific option to ensure the PDF is not downloadable or accessible outside the article (our PDFs are part of a subscription offering, and we need to ensure they are not shared).