Display PDF-files in fullscreen mode from web-page

arnenu2 wrote on 3/24/2020, 12:24 PM

Hi, I wonder if it is possible to view files in full screen mode from a web site designed in Xara Designer Pro X 2020?
I have created a PDF link to files that users of the web page should be able to see in full screen mode without any copy or print option. I have arranged for this in the saved PDFs, but it does not seem to have any effect.
Can anyone help me with this?

Kind regards

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emmrecs wrote on 3/24/2020, 2:55 PM

@arnenu2

Welcome to the Magix forums.

Since you are using Xara Designer Pro I have moved your post to the correct area of the forum.

I don't have or use Designer Pro so cannot directly help with that aspect of your question. However, how or indeed if a pdf file will open in a site-visitor's browser (or will require downloading first) is a setting the user can make in his/her browser and is not in the control of the web site designer.

If this is available to you, the usual advice for making any document appear full-screen in a browser is, I believe, to put it in an i-frame; the viewer clicks on something like a thumbnail and the i-frame then can be set to open full-screen.

HTH

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johnebaker wrote on 3/24/2020, 4:23 PM

@arnenu2

Hi

. . . . a PDF link to files that users of the web page should be able to see in full screen mode without any copy or print option. . . . . I have arranged for this in the saved PDFs but it does not seem to have any effect . . .

It is not possible to protect a PDF file from copying or downloading, though you can make them non-editable.

The way a browser works all the web content - text, images, PDF's, are downloaded to the viewers PC before they can be displayed, it is not difficult to get images or PDF's.

Streaming video may be considered an exception, however even it is not too difficult to acquire.

I am puzzled why you want to protect the PDF's, their most common usage on a website is for the viewer to be able download and/or print them.

HTH

John EB
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