Title: Embedding a PDF
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Embedding a PDF

 *  [rcdailey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcdailey/)
 * (@rcdailey)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-a-pdf/)
 * Hello,
 * I want to be able to embed a PDF into a new page in my wordpress website. I want
   this PDF to use Google Docs, if possible, since this will allow the most flexibility.
   The user won’t have to download Adobe to view the PDF.
 * One additional requirement I have is that the iframe or whatever I use to embed
   the PDF must be flexible and dynamically sized. So when the user resizes their
   browser window, the “page” area size increases/decreases and the embedded PDF
   should resize as well. I want to avoid using a fixed size.
 * Help is appreciated. Thank you.

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

 *  Thread Starter [rcdailey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcdailey/)
 * (@rcdailey)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-a-pdf/#post-1235168)
 * Anyone?
 *  [sleepw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sleepw/)
 * (@sleepw)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-a-pdf/#post-1235169)
 * will this work:
    [http://en.support.wordpress.com/scribd/](http://en.support.wordpress.com/scribd/)
 *  Thread Starter [rcdailey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcdailey/)
 * (@rcdailey)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-a-pdf/#post-1235213)
 * The scribd embed code doesn’t do anything on my wordpress site. Note that I am
   hosting my own webserver, not using the wordpress hosting service.
 * How do I make the links work?
 *  Thread Starter [rcdailey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcdailey/)
 * (@rcdailey)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-a-pdf/#post-1235214)
 * I still haven’t seen a solution that doesn’t require me to specify explicit dimensions
   for the embedded PDF. I want it to take up the full width and height of the wordpress
   page I’ll be embedding it in.
 * Also, the PDF file I have is on my own website. I would like to avoid uploading
   it to scribd for google docs because it will be more difficult to update the 
   document there if it changes.
 * I need to be able to embed a PDF from an arbitrary URL into wordpress.
 *  [8207h32](https://wordpress.org/support/users/8207h32/)
 * (@8207h32)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-a-pdf/#post-1235215)
 * Try this
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-document-embedder/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-document-embedder/)
   It lets you embed PDF files, PowerPoint presentations, and TIFF images in a web
   page using the Google Docs Viewer.
 * Unlike Scribd, the files do not need to be uploaded to any service first – including
   Google Documents – but can exist anywhere accessible on your site or the internet.
 *  Thread Starter [rcdailey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcdailey/)
 * (@rcdailey)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-a-pdf/#post-1235229)
 * 8207h32, it still does not dynamically resize to fill the dimensions of its parent
   container, does it? I read somewhere that dynamic iframes do not exist yet in
   the HTML standard, so this might be a limitation of HTML.
 * With Google Document Embedder, I still have to specify a width/height.

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

The topic ‘Embedding a PDF’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [rcdailey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcdailey/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedding-a-pdf/#post-1235229)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics