Electron-pdf-window-s NPM

electron-pdf-window-s

View pdf in new browser windows.

Install

Use npm or yarn:

# Use npm
npm install electron-pdf-window-s -D

# Use yarn
yarn add electron-pdf-window-s -D

Usage

A simple example:

const { app } = require('electron')

// Use defualt export so you could get intelligent completion
const PDFWindow = require('electron-pdf-window-s').default

app.on('ready', () => {
  const win = new PDFWindow({
    width: 800,
    height: 600
  })

  win.loadURL('http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/compressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf')
})

You will see pdf window is show.

`new PDFWindow(options)`

Create a pdf window instance. The option is same as BrowserWindow's option.

Then, you could use loadURL() to load a PDF file or url.

`PDFWindow.viewerPath`

Static property, specifies path for the pdfjs viewer.

Default is path.join(__dirname, '../viewer/web/viewer.html')

`PDFWindow.addSupport(browserWindow)`

Static method, enable normal BrowserWindow to support loading pdf by loadURL().

About electron-pdf-window

Special thanks to @gerhardberger. This project is based on his electron-pdf-window. But unfortunately, that library no longer seems to be maintained. So I froked it and created new one.