A Laravel Package for viewing PDF files or documents on Web App
davcpas1234/laravelpdfviewer is a Laravel package for a laravel package for viewing pdf files or documents on web app.
It currently has 24 GitHub stars and 14.751 downloads on Packagist (latest version 1.0.1).
Install it with composer require davcpas1234/laravelpdfviewer.
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This package is meant to help with viewing portable document file(PDF) on the web seamlessly when developing with Laravel. The package makes use of ViewerJS
To install into your project, run the command below in your terminal.
composer require davcpas1234/laravelpdfviewer
Once the package is done being installed, register the service provider. Open config/app.php and add the following to the providers key.
Davcpas1234\LaravelPdfViewer\LaravelPdfViewerServiceProvider::class,
Run this in your terminal:
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Davcpas1234\LaravelPdfViewer\LaravelPdfViewerServiceProvider"
It will publish a folder named laraview to the root folder of your project.
Simple!!! After installations and configurations have been carried out successfully, add the code below to your html file
{{ asset('/laraview/#../folder-name/the-pdf-file.pdf') }}
It should look like this:
<iframe src ="{{ asset('/laraview/#../pdf/test.pdf') }}" width="1000px" height="600px"></iframe>
Then, you should have something like this:

Note:
After
#../in{{ asset('/laraview/#../folder-name/the-pdf-file.pdf') }}, what should follow is the folder name of the pdf files in the public folder then, the pdf file name can follow.
You can fork this package, contribute and submit a pull request. I will really love it.
MIT License (MIT).