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hattmall
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4 years ago

No toolbar with print option in embed

When using the embed javscript to include a shared PDF in my page the toolbar that appears at the bottom only has the zoom in our out options.   Is there anyway to include the full toolbar that i...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Unfortunately, the Dropbox Embedder doesn't have an option for that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

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    hattmall
    New member | Level 2
    4 years ago

    Can you recommend an alternate solution?

     

    Or I notice that inspecting the embed there is a png preview of the file, is there anyway to access that as that would allow me to create a javascript button to print that png which would be sufficient.

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      Greg-DB
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      4 years ago

      I can't offer any other solutions using the Embedder unfortunately. You can find all of the supported options for the Embedder in the Embedder documentation, but unfortunately there's nothing for programmatically enabling a print button or accessing the embedded content like that.

       

      If you need more control over the integration, you could use the Dropbox API instead (such as /2/files/download), but that would be substantially more work.

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        hattmall
        New member | Level 2
        4 years ago

        Ok, thank you, I got it working by changing the ending of the shared link to raw=1 and putting it in an iframe. The files now render in the browser and a print button can be made with JS. Perhaps this only works because the files are PDF, but it fits my needs.

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