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De L.1
Collaborator | Level 9
9 years ago
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BUG: rendering PDF with ?raw=1 not showing in Chrome & Safari

To my surprise I noticed that it isn't possible to embed shared files anymore by using the ?raw=1 parameters as discussed in the Dropbox Help Center.   For instance, I am not able to see the follow...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    9 years ago
    We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please try again and you should find that this functionality works correctly.

    Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.
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jdbrown
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

We are having issues opening ?raw=1 links in Chrome.

 

 

This was working fine up until today.

 

If I copy the link to the file, then change ?dl=1 to ?raw=1 and copy & paste it into my navigation bar, it continuously loads the file, but never succeeds in rendering it. I asked another person in our office to test this and they can recreate this 100% of the time just like me.

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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

jdbrown It looks like this may be an issue with Chrome. With what version(s) of Chrome are you seeing this issue?

 

I was able to reproduce the issue with Chrome 61.0.3163.100, but it works again for me in Chrome 62.0.3202.75, so it looks like it may already be fixed in new versions.

  • jdbrown's avatar
    jdbrown
    New member | Level 2
    9 years ago

    Yea, I probably should have included the version string in my first post, sorry.

     

    Chrome version: Version 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)

    • jdbrown's avatar
      jdbrown
      New member | Level 2
      9 years ago

      I just updated Chrome to Version 62.0.3202.75 (Official Build) (64-bit) and it actually seems to be working now.

      • guilhermegarcia's avatar
        guilhermegarcia
        Explorer | Level 4
        8 years ago

        Same issue here: PDFs won't open (Safari and Firefox, both under current versions). Every single link I have is ...raw=1, so basically nothing works at the moment. Am I missing something...? They all simply stopped working all of a sudden—just now—and I really need all these files to be working properly.

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