Download in JavaScript (ES5) PDF Viewer control

08 May 2023 / 2 minutes to read

The PDF Viewer supports downloading the loaded PDF file. You can enable/disable the download using the following code snippet.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Essential JS 2</title>
<!-- Essential JS 2 fabric theme -->
<link href="{{:CDN_LINK}}ej2-pdfviewer/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<!-- Essential JS 2 PDF Viewer's global script -->
<script src="{{:CDN_LINK}}dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!--element which is going to render-->
<div id='container'>
<div id='PdfViewer' style="height:500px;width:100%;">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

var pdfviewer = new ej.pdfviewer.PdfViewer({
                    enableDownload: true,
                    documentPath: "PDF_Succinctly.pdf",
                    serviceUrl: 'https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer'
                });

ej.pdfviewer.PdfViewer.Inject(ej.pdfviewer.Toolbar, ej.pdfviewer.Magnification, ej.pdfviewer.LinkAnnotation,ej.pdfviewer.ThumbnailView, ej.pdfviewer.BookmarkView, ej.pdfviewer.TextSelection, ej.pdfviewer.TextSearch, ej.pdfviewer.Navigation, ej.pdfviewer.Print);
pdfviewer.appendTo('#PdfViewer');

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You can invoke download action using following code snippet.,

var pdfviewer = new ej.pdfviewer.PdfViewer({
                    enableDownload: true,
                    documentPath: "PDF_Succinctly.pdf",
                    serviceUrl: 'https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer'
                });
ej.pdfviewer.PdfViewer.Inject(ej.pdfviewer.TextSelection, ej.pdfviewer.TextSearch, ej.pdfviewer.Navigation,ej.pdfviewer.Print);
pdfviewer.appendTo('#PdfViewer');
pdfviewer.download();

How to get the base64 string while downloading the PDF document

The downloadEnd event of the PDF viewer allows you to get the downloaded document as a base64 string.

The following code illustrates how to get the invoke the download action in a button click to get the downloaded document as a base64 string. And load the document from base64 string in another button click.

<button id="download">Download</button>
<button id="load">Load</button>

var pdfstream;
document.getElementById('download').addEventListener('click', function () {
    //API to perform download action.
    viewer.download();
    viewer.downloadEnd = function (args) {
        pdfstream = args.downloadDocument;
        //Print the document as a base64 string in the console window.
        console.log(pdfstream);
    };
});

document.getElementById('load').addEventListener('click', function () {
    //Load the base64 string in the viewer.
    viewer.load(pdfstream, null);
});

View sample in GitHub.

Download in JavaScript (ES5) PDF Viewer control

How to get the base64 string while downloading the PDF document

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