How to embed a PDF document into HTML web page
PDF the Portable Document Format, although created by Adobe in the early 90's is now an open standard ISO format for documents. It's a great way of converting propriety documents (excel, word etc.) into a easily viewable/exchangable format. Putting PDFs into web pages is increasing popular - you can view documents as they should appear with images and text formatted as the author intended. So.. how do you embed a pdf into a web page? The simple way is to use the <object> element. This assumes that the web browser has a PDF plugin - if not you can add a message to allow a direct download of the PDF instead. <object data="filename.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="100%"> <p>Your web browser doesn't have a PDF plugin. Instead you can <a href="filename.pdf">click here to download the PDF file.</a></p> </object>