Embed PDF from C Drive

Vaadin 6 / 7 / 8 Framework UI
1

Hi All,

I have been trying to implement
Sami’s example code
 which embeds a PDF.

However after i execute the code there is only a blank window. I am passing in the path to the pdf as a String. I have also tried to pass in the full filepath to the setSource method escaping the windows backslashes and tried with forward slashes.

My code is as follows:

EmbedPDF(String fullPathToFile){
		Window sub = new Window();
		Embedded em = new Embedded();
		
		try{
			em.setSource(new ExternalResource(fullPathToFile));
		}catch(Exception e){
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		em.setType(Embedded.TYPE_BROWSER);
		em.setSizeFull();
		em.setImmediate(true);
		em.setMimeType("application/pdf");
		
		sub.addComponent(em);
		 
		MyApplication.getProject().getMainWindow().addWindow(sub);
	}

Any pointers to what i am doing wrong?

Thanks

S.

2

Hello Sierra Bravo,

I had the same problem once. After many researchs i found that its quite IMPOSSIBLE to do it. What i found are some hints on how to embed it inside HTML !!!

3

ive decided not to embed the PDF but rather to promt the user to save the file.

The following post is very useful:

http://vaadin.com/forum/-/message_boards/message/308689

Thanks

Santiago