📄 vue-pdf-embed

PDF embed component for Vue 3 (see Compatibility for Vue 2 support)

Features

• Controlled rendering of PDF documents in Vue apps
• Handling password-protected documents
• Includes text layer (searchable and selectable documents)
• Includes annotation layer (annotations and links)
• No peer dependencies or additional configuration required
• Can be used directly in the browser (see Examples)

Compatibility

This package is only compatible with Vue 3. For Vue 2 support, install vue-pdf-embed@1 and refer to the v1 docs.

Installation

Depending on the environment, the package can be installed in one of the following ways:

npm install vue-pdf-embed

yarn add vue-pdf-embed

<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue-pdf-embed"></script>

Usage

<script setup>
import VuePdfEmbed from 'vue-pdf-embed'

// optional styles
import 'vue-pdf-embed/dist/styles/annotationLayer.css'
import 'vue-pdf-embed/dist/styles/textLayer.css'

// either URL, Base64, binary, or document proxy
const pdfSource = '<PDF_URL>'
</script>

<template>
  <VuePdfEmbed annotation-layer text-layer :source="pdfSource" />
</template>

Props

Name	Type	Accepted values	Description
annotationLayer	boolean	true or false	whether the annotation layer should be enabled
height	number	natural numbers	desired page height in pixels (ignored if the width property is specified)
imageResourcesPath	string	URL or path with trailing slash	path for icons used in the annotation layer
page	number	1 to the last page number	number of the page to display (displaying all pages if not specified)
rotation	number	0, 90, 180, 270 (multiples of 90)	desired page rotation angle in degrees
scale	number	rational numbers	desired page viewport scale
source	string object	document URL or Base64 or typed array or document proxy	source of the document to display
textLayer	boolean	true or false	whether the text layer should be enabled
width	number	natural numbers	desired page width in pixels

Events

Name	Value	Description
internal-link-clicked	destination page number	internal link was clicked
loaded	PDF document proxy	finished loading the document
loading-failed	error object	failed to load document
password-requested	object with callback function and isWrongPassword flag	password is needed to display the document
progress	object with number of loaded pages along with total number of pages	tracking document loading progress
rendered	–	finished rendering the document
rendering-failed	error object	failed to render document

Slots

Name	Props	Description
after-page	page (page number)	content to be added after each page
before-page	page (page number)	content to be added before each page

Public Methods

Name	Arguments	Description
download	filename (string)	download document
print	print resolution (number), filename (string), all pages flag (boolean)	print document via browser interface

Note: Public methods can be accessed through a template ref.

Common Issues and Caveats

Server-Side Rendering

This is a client-side library, so it is important to keep this in mind when working with SSR (server-side rendering) frameworks such as Nuxt. Depending on the framework used, you may need to properly configure the library import or use a wrapper.

Web Worker Loading

The web worker used to handle PDF documents is loaded by default. However, this may not be acceptable due to bundler restrictions or CSP (Content Security Policy). In such cases it is recommended to use the essential build (index.essential.mjs) and set up the worker manually using the exposed GlobalWorkerOptions.

import { GlobalWorkerOptions } from 'vue-pdf-embed/dist/index.essential.mjs'
import PdfWorker from 'pdfjs-dist/build/pdf.worker.mjs?url'

GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = PdfWorker

Document Loading

Typically, document loading is internally handled within the component. However, for optimization purposes, the document can be loaded in the useVuePdfEmbed composable function and then passed as the source prop of the component (e.g. when sharing the source between multiple instances of the component).

<script setup>
import VuePdfEmbed, { useVuePdfEmbed } from 'vue-pdf-embed'

const { doc } = useVuePdfEmbed({ source: '<PDF_URL>' })
</script>

<template>
  <VuePdfEmbed :source="doc" />
</template>

Resources

The path to predefined CMaps should be specified to ensure correct rendering of documents containing non-Latin characters, as well as in case of CMap-related errors:

<VuePdfEmbed
  :source="{
    cMapUrl: 'https://unpkg.com/pdfjs-dist/cmaps/',
    url: '<PDF_URL>',
  }"
/>

The image resource path must be specified for annotations to display correctly:

<VuePdfEmbed
  image-resources-path="https://unpkg.com/pdfjs-dist/web/images/"
  source="<PDF_URL>"
/>

Note: The examples above use a CDN to load resources, however these resources can also be included in the build by installing the pdfjs-dist package as a dependency and further configuring the bundler.

Examples

Basic Usage Demo (JSFiddle)

Advanced Usage Demo (JSFiddle)

License

MIT License. Please see LICENSE file for more information.