Load documents in Vue Pdfviewer component

16 Mar 20232 minutes to read

The PDF Viewer library allows you to switch or load PDF documents dynamically after the initial load operation. To achieve this, load the PDF document as a base64 string or file name into the PDF Viewer control using the Load() method dynamically.

The following steps are used to load the PDF document dynamically.

Step 1: Follow the steps provided in the link to create a simple PDF Viewer sample.

Step 2: Use the following code snippet to load the PDF document using a base64 string.

<template>
    <div>
        <button v-on:click="load_1">LoadDocumentFromBase64</button>
        <div>
            <ejs-pdfviewer
                id="pdfViewer"
                :serviceUrl="serviceUrl"
                :documentPath="documentPath">
            </ejs-pdfviewer>
        </div>
    </div>
</template>

<script>
import Vue from 'vue';
import { PdfViewerPlugin, Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, 
         BookmarkView,ThumbnailView, Print,TextSelection, TextSearch, 
         Annotation, FormDesigner, FormFields } from '@syncfusion/ej2-vue-pdfviewer';
Vue.use(PdfViewerPlugin);

export default {
  data () {
    return {
      serviceUrl:"https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer",
      documentPath:"PDF_Succinctly.pdf",
    };
  },
  provide: {
    PdfViewer: [ Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView, ThumbnailView, 
                 Print, TextSelection, TextSearch,Annotation, FormDesigner, FormFields ]},

  methods: {
  // Load the PDF document from a Base64 string
  load_1: function (event) {
    var viewer = document.getElementById('pdfViewer').ej2_instances[0];
    viewer.load('data:application/pdf;base64,'+ AddBase64String, null);
  }
 }
}

Step 3: Use the following code snippet to load the PDF document using the document name.

<template>
    <div>
        <button v-on:click="load_2">LoadDocument</button>
        <div>
            <ejs-pdfviewer
                id="pdfViewer"
                :serviceUrl="serviceUrl"
                :documentPath="documentPath">
            </ejs-pdfviewer>
        </div>
    </div>
</template>

<script>
import Vue from 'vue';
import { PdfViewerPlugin, Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, 
         BookmarkView, ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch, 
         Annotation, FormDesigner, FormFields } from '@syncfusion/ej2-vue-pdfviewer';
Vue.use(PdfViewerPlugin);

export default {
  data () {
    return {
      serviceUrl:"https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer",
      documentPath:"PDF_Succinctly.pdf",
    };
  },
  provide: {
  PdfViewer: [ Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView, ThumbnailView, 
               Print, TextSelection, TextSearch,Annotation, FormDesigner, FormFields ]},

methods: {
  load_2: function (event) {
    // Load the PDF document using the file name
    var viewer = document.getElementById('pdfViewer').ej2_instances[0];
    viewer.load('PDF_Succinctly.pdf', null);
  }
 }
}

Find the sample, how to load PDF documents dynamically