Why does the PDF file uploaded to Glide only show the first page when opened on iOS mobile? I’m unsure if this occurs on other mobile platforms. Could this be related to the device’s built-in reader?
How are you displaying the PDF? There is no built in PDF viewer other than using a web embed, or directly opening the link.
Using web embed. Because I allow several sources, including from Google Drive.
It would be interesting to see if I open it on an iMac, is this viewer the default for the browser?
It’s unclear to me how web embeded PDFs are displayed on Apple devices. I’ve used a Google wrapper to wrap my urls and display in a web embed, and I’ve also created my own wrapper which was basically an iframe inside a web embed that displays the PDF. I’ve usually gotten good results displaying the PDF much like how your screenshot shows, but others with Apple devices have said it doesn’t work well.
So based on your screenshots, are you saying that is what you see but you can’t get past the first page?
Overall, yes, I believe it’s the browser’s built in reader the displays the PDF.
If from your tone you mean here it needs to be wrapped back to the google reader. I thought Glide provided a reader for files with the pdf extension.
It’s definitely something I need to experiment with more. Wrapping with a google document viewer seems to be hit or miss and sometimes requires a refresh to get the PDF to load. I assume because it’s passing through Google servers. That’s how I’ve been doing it for years in one of my apps.
Now it appears that I don’t really even need a wrapper. I can just link the web embed directly to the PDF url and it renders in a PDF viewer within the web embed…at least that’s how it works in chrome on windows and android. …unless I maybe had to use the wrapper for PDF’s stored in google drive back in the day. Really not sure anymore. And like I said, I’ve heard of varying results from Apple users.
Wish I could be more help. I need to get my hands on an iPad and play around some day.
Short answer…no, there is no such built in reader provided by glide. If anything it’s the browser that renders and displays a PDF.
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Dealing with Apple can be quite complicated, Jeff. Because the first page appeared and the desktop display has been different since I switched to the new Glide, I thought there might be an update to Glide. However, if there isn’t one, I’d prefer using Google Drive rather than uploading directly.
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If you do find something that works well with PDF’s stored in Google Drive and elsewhere, please share. I think getting PDF’s to display nicely within the app on multiple devices is something that many of us would like to know about.
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Through G. Drive so far by adding /preview after the ID works fine on all platforms, but it only has zoom capabilities, nothing more.
If you look at the image above, I’m not really familiar with the type of reader it’s from. This makes me curious. I’ve only ever installed Adobe Reader, and this isn’t it.
To the best of my knowledge it’s just a reader that’s built into the browser. It’s not a web based viewer, it’s just part of the browser itself. I don’t have Adobe install or anything like that. I say that because at least in Chrome, that’s what shows up even if I directly navigate to a PDF stored in Glide’s storage
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