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Dropbox Rendering Specific Pages of PDF in HTML
I am trying to display a specific PDF page on my webpage.
When I set src to (below), it displays the whole pdf.
src="https://www.dropbox.com/example.pdf?raw=1
When I add #page=3 (example below), it still display the whole pdf.
src="https://www.dropbox.com/example.pdf?raw=1#page=3
Is it possible to navigate/display a specific page of the PDF using Dropbox?
vcha wrote:...
When I add #page=3 (example below), it still display the whole pdf.
...
Hi vcha,
First of all, the whole pdf gonna show always! If you want only particular page to show up, you need to edit the pdf on fly and strip all other pages. Adding particular page as a anchor just navigates to that page, but doesn't restrict which part of the pdf to be shown.
After that, take in mind that Dropbox shared link doesn't point to the referred file directly, but redirect to there. During this redirection any anchor in the former link gets stripped and that's why pdf files will always show from the first page. You have to scroll to desired page yourself after the document gets loaded.
Hope this helps.
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vcha wrote:...
When I add #page=3 (example below), it still display the whole pdf.
...
Hi vcha,
First of all, the whole pdf gonna show always! If you want only particular page to show up, you need to edit the pdf on fly and strip all other pages. Adding particular page as a anchor just navigates to that page, but doesn't restrict which part of the pdf to be shown.
After that, take in mind that Dropbox shared link doesn't point to the referred file directly, but redirect to there. During this redirection any anchor in the former link gets stripped and that's why pdf files will always show from the first page. You have to scroll to desired page yourself after the document gets loaded.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the answer
Greg-DB, I believe adding a new feature for anchor transferring would improve user experience related to parametrize document view (for instance the case described by vcha).
Would be fine a link parameter caring anchor content to be available (for instance a parameter named "anchor" passed together with "raw" parameter). This parameter value can represent the final anchor and can be passed encoded either base64 or URL. 😉 Parameters get passed to the server (the anchor does not) and can be added to the final redirection as actual anchor.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks for the feedback! I'll send this along as a feature request.
- thank
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