PDF Embed Web Component Available Via NPM

Earlier this month, after being motivated by Thomas Steiner, I went through the not-really-a-hassle process of publishing <table-sort> to NPM. (Table-Sorter Available Via NPM) Today I’ve done the same for another web component, <pdf-embed>. This component wraps Adobe’s PDF Embed API, which, honestly, isn’t an API, but a JavaScript library to embed PDFs inline with the rest of your document. Given this HTML: <pdf-embed url="https://documentservices.adobe.com/view-sdk-demo/PDFs/Bodea Brochure.pdf" width="100%" height="500px" key="33f07f2305444579a56b088b8ac1929e"><p>Read our cool PDF <a href="https://documentservices.adobe.com/view-sdk-demo/PDFs/Bodea... more →
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A PDF Embed Web Component

I’m still pretty new to web components (see my post back in May, My First Web Component), but I’ve been playing with them, and other libraries that wrap them, off and on. Recently I decided to revisit something I had tried at the time I first played with the technology, a wrapper for Adobe’s PDF Embed library. Raymond Camden… more →
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Using the Adobe PDF EMbed API with Vue 3

A long time ago, ok, February of last year, I posted about using the Adobe PDF Embed library with Vue.js: Using the PDF Embed API with Vue.js. The main issue with our Embed library and libraries like Vue is a "chicken and egg" issue. Basically, our docs tell you to add an event listener for our library to load, but it’s possible that the library has loaded before you add the event listener. Raymond Camden… more →
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