The PDF/ODT/ODP embedded viewer based on ViewerJS for Electron.
$ npm i --save electron-viewerjsEnable webviewTag in main.js:
mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({ ... webPreferences: { preload: path.join(__dirname, 'preload.js'), nodeIntegration: true, webviewTag: true //Enable webviewTag } ... })Declare container in index.html
<div id="sample-viewer-1" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div> <div id="sample-viewer-2" data-src="./sample-pdf2-doc.pdf" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div>Declare viewer in renderer.js
const viewer = require('electron-viewerjs');There are 3 ways of initialize
- Load file at constructor
let ctx = document.getElementById('sample-viewer-1'); viewer.new(ctx, {path: './sample-pdf1-doc.pdf'});- Load file by attribute
data-src="..."
let ctx = document.getElementById('sample-viewer-2'); viewer.new(ctx); //No need to put path here.- Load file after initialized
let ctx = document.getElementById('sample-viewer-1'); let preview = viewer.new(ctx); preview.loadSync('./sample-odt-doc.odt'); //Load ODT document file after initialized.