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shimax21 Author

Level 1

11 points

Safari in iOS 8.0 can not display a PDF embedded in a HTML page(with embed tag).

In iOS7.0 or earlier Safari can display the PDF if it is embedded in a HTML page.

demo page:

http://www.broadband-xp.com/test/ios/embed.html

Steps to Reproduce:

1. In iOS 8.0 with Safari access to the following test page:

http://www.broadband-xp.com/test/ios/embed.html

You will not see a PDF there.

2. In iOS 7.0 or earlier with Safari access to the same page.

Then you will see a PDF.

Is this change a bug or an expected behavior?

iPhone 5, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 19, 2014 2:51 PM

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ddkilzer

Level 2

344 points

Posted on Sep 22, 2014 11:10 AM

This issue happens in Safari in iOS 8 because it now uses WKWebView. Applications (web browsers) that still use UIWebView will continue to render the PDF document in an <embed> tag.

Instead of using the <embed> tag to render the first page of the PDF document, a better approach would be to use an <img> tag. Another alternative would be to use an <iframe> to render the PDF, although (in Safari on iOS 8) there is another bug that only renders the first page of a multi-page PDF document inside an <iframe>: After iOS8 upgrade, safari can't display PDF in iframes again

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Jan 3, 2017 4:42 AM in response to shimax21

You can 3D touch the document to pop it out.

Safari in iOS 8.0 can not display a PDF embedded in a HTML page(with embed tag).