VUEjs v2 PDF viewer based on Mozilla's PDFJS.

100% PDFJS functionality:

• zoom
• open
• print
• download
• rotate
• text selection
• search panel
• pdf document password
• thumbnail, outline, attachments, annotation layers

Easily localized configurable toolbar

^NEW Toolbar custom UI

Cross-browser support (including IE11)

Color customization (IE11 not supported)

Buttons icons customization

Light/dark themes

Built-in typescript support

UMD/Unpkg support:

<template>
  <!-- used `style="height: 100vh;"` because without it in the Firefox 89 and Chrome 91 (June 2021) the `vue-pdf-app` is not rendering on the page, just empty space without any errors (since `vue-pdf-app` does not have height and it is the top tag in the generated markup ) -->
  <!-- or you can just wrap `vue-pdf-app` in <div> tag and set height for it via CSS (like in `Script tag (unpkg)` example below) -->
  <vue-pdf-app style="height: 100vh;" pdf="https://file-examples-com.github.io/uploads/2017/10/file-example_PDF_1MB.pdf"></vue-pdf-app>
</template>

<script>
import VuePdfApp from "vue-pdf-app";
// import this to use default icons for buttons
import "vue-pdf-app/dist/icons/main.css";

export default {
  components: {
    VuePdfApp
  }
};
</script>

Live demo

Live demo 2

Examples source code

FAQ

• Type: string | null | ArrayBuffer | TypedArray
• Required: false
• Usage:

<vue-pdf-app pdf="https://example.com/sample.pdf" />
<vue-pdf-app :pdf="ArrayBuffer" />

• Description: true renames document title to pdf file name.
• Type: boolean
• Required: false
• Default: false
• Usage:

<vue-pdf-app :title="true" />

• Type: "dark" | "light"
• Required: false
• Usage:

<vue-pdf-app theme="dark" />
<vue-pdf-app :theme="theme" />
<vue-pdf-app :theme.sync="theme" />

• Description: when pdf is passed like an array buffer default download file name is document.pdf. Set this prop to override it.
• Type: string
• Required: false
• Usage:

<vue-pdf-app :pdf="ArrayBuffer" file-name="file name" />

• Description: default page scale.
• Type: number | "page-actual"| "page-width"| "page-height"| "page-fit"| "auto"
• Required: false
• Usage:

// 20%
<vue-pdf-app page-scale="20" />
<vue-pdf-app :page-scale="20" />
<vue-pdf-app :page-scale="page-actual" />

• Description: pdfjs stores last viewed page of a file in window.localStorage.getItem("pdfjs.history"). Specify the prop to override it.
• Type: number
• Required: false
• Usage:

<vue-pdf-app :page-number="1" />

• Description: toolbar configuration. Toolbar is available by default. Specify false for buttons or whole group of buttons to disable them.
• Type: toolbar config (see below)
• Required: false
• Default: toolbar config
• Usage:

<vue-pdf-app :config="config" />

<script>
export default {
  data() {
    return {
      // disable "Previous page" button
      config: {
        toolbar: {
          toolbarViewerLeft: {
            previous: false
          }
        }
      },

      // disable whole page navigation panel
      config2: {
        toolbar: {
          toolbarViewerLeft: false
        }
      },

      // disable whole panel
      config3: {
        toolbar: false
      }
    };
  }
};
</script>

{
  sidebar: {
    viewThumbnail: true,
    viewOutline: true,
    viewAttachments: true,
  },
  secondaryToolbar: {
    secondaryPresentationMode: true,
    secondaryOpenFile: true,
    secondaryPrint: true,
    secondaryDownload: true,
    secondaryViewBookmark: true,
    firstPage: true,
    lastPage: true,
    pageRotateCw: true,
    pageRotateCcw: true,
    cursorSelectTool: true,
    cursorHandTool: true,
    scrollVertical: true,
    scrollHorizontal: true,
    scrollWrapped: true,
    spreadNone: true,
    spreadOdd: true,
    spreadEven: true,
    documentProperties: true,
  },
  toolbar: {
    toolbarViewerLeft: {
      findbar: true,
      previous: true,
      next: true,
      pageNumber: true,
    },
    toolbarViewerRight: {
      presentationMode: true,
      openFile: true,
      print: true,
      download: true,
      viewBookmark: true,
    },
    toolbarViewerMiddle: {
      zoomOut: true,
      zoomIn: true,
      scaleSelectContainer: true,
    },
  },
  errorWrapper: true,
};

• Description: If default toolbar UI doesn't suite you it is possible to build custom toolbar. The prop contains elements ID to which to bind functionality. If element ID is specified in this prop appropriate button will be hidden in a default toolbar. May not work with UI framework components. That is because pdfjs internally manages attributes specific to a certain HTML element (for instance pdfjs toggles disabled attribute of a button but it won't if a div is used instead of a button). So it is better to use native HTML element specified as recommended in ID config specification below. Four slots are specially designed to build custom toolbar (are situated near a pdf page): viewer-header, viewer-prepend, viewer-append, viewer-footer (refer slots API). It is also possible to use other slots or elements outside vue-pdf-app.
• Type: ID config (see below)
• Required: false
• Usage:

<template>
  <div>
    <button :id="idConfig.zoomOut" type="button">Zoom out</button>
    <vue-pdf-app :id-config="idConfig">
      <template #viewer-prepend>
        <div class="viewer-prepend">
          <button :id="idConfig.zoomIn" type="button">Zoom in</button>
        </div>
      </template>
    </vue-pdf-app>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  data() {
    return {
      idConfig: { zoomIn: "zoomInId", zoomOut: "zoomOutId" }
    };
  }
};
</script>

{
cursorHandTool?: string; // <button> is recommended
cursorSelectTool?: string; // <button> is recommended
documentProperties?: string; // <button> is recommended
download?: string; // <button> is recommended
findbar?: string; // <div> is recommended
findEntireWord?: string; // <input type="checkbox"> is recommended
findHighlightAll?: string; // <input type="checkbox"> is recommended
findMessage?: string; // <span> is recommended
findInput?: string; // <input type="text"> is recommended
findMatchCase?: string; // <input type="checkbox"> is recommended
findNext?: string; // <button> is recommended
findPrevious?: string; // <button> is recommended
findResultsCount?: string; // <span> is recommended
firstPage?: string; // <button> is recommended
lastPage?: string; // <button> is recommended
nextPage?: string; // <button> is recommended
numPages?: string; // total pages qty. <span> is recommended
openFile?: string; // <button> is recommended
pageNumber?: string; // input for page number. <input type="number"> is recommended
pageRotateCcw?: string; // <button> is recommended
pageRotateCw?: string; // <button> is recommended
presentationMode?: string; // <button> is recommended
previousPage?: string; // <button> is recommended
print?: string; // <button> is recommended
scrollHorizontal?: string; // <button> is recommended
scrollVertical?: string; // <button> is recommended
scrollWrapped?: string; // <button> is recommended
sidebarToggle?: string; // <button> is recommended
spreadEven?: string; // <button> is recommended
spreadNone?: string; // <button> is recommended
spreadOdd?: string; // <button> is recommended
toggleFindbar?: string; // <button> is recommended
viewAttachments?: string; // <button> is recommended
viewBookmark?: string; // <a> tag is recommended
viewOutline?: string; // <button> tag is recommended
viewThumbnail?: string; // <button> tag is recommended
zoomIn?: string; // <button> tag is recommended
zoomOut?: string; // <button> tag is recommended
}

ℹ️ Note that elements must be in HTML document by the time vue-pdf-app is mounting (use v-show instead of v-if directive if necessary). Otherwise an error occurs.

• Description: emitted only once when Pdfjs library is binded to vue component. Can be used to set Pdfjs config before pdf document opening.
• Arguments:
  • PDFViewerApplication - pdf application
• Usage:

<vue-pdf-app @after-created="afterCreated" />

• Description: emitted when pdf is opened but pages are not rendered.
• Arguments:
  • PDFViewerApplication - pdf application
• Usage:

<vue-pdf-app @open="openHandler" />

• Description: emitted when pdf document pages are rendered. Can be used to set default pages scale, for instance.
• Arguments:
  • PDFViewerApplication - pdf application
• Usage:

<vue-pdf-app @pages-rendered="pagesRendered" />

<script>
export default {
  methods: {
    pagesRendered(pdfApp) {
      setTimeout(() => (pdfApp.pdfViewer.currentScaleValue = "page-height"));
    }
  }
};
</script>

ℹ️ Events are triggered in the following order after-created (once) => open => pages-rendered

• toolbar-left-prepend
• toolbar-left-append
• toolbar-middle-prepend
• toolbar-middle-append
• toolbar-right-prepend
• toolbar-right-append
• toolbar-sidebar-prepend
• toolbar-sidebar-append
• secondary-toolbar-prepend
• secondary-toolbar-append
• footer
• ^NEW viewer-header: slot before viewer-prepend slot. Can be used to build custom toolbar.
• ^NEW viewer-prepend: slot before viewerContainer div. Can be used to build custom toolbar.
• ^NEW viewer-append: slot after viewerContainer div. Can be used to build custom toolbar.
• ^NEW viewer-footer: slot after viewer-append slot. Can be used to build custom toolbar.

Each slot has props:

1. toggleTheme

   Type: (): void.

   Description: toggle theme handler

2. ^NEW isSidebarHidden

   Type: boolean

   Description: state of a sidebar (visible or hidden). Can be used to manage visibility of custom Attachments, Outline and Thumbnail buttons

3. ^NEW isFindbarHidden

   Type: boolean

   Description: state of a findbar (visible or hidden). Can be used to manage visibility of custom findbar

<vue-pdf-app>
  <template #toolbar-left-prepend="{ toggleTheme }">
    <button @click="toggleTheme" type="button">Toggle theme</button>
  </template>
</vue-pdf-app>

Colors of the pdf viewer are customized via custom css properties:

<style>
  /* for dark theme */
  .pdf-app.dark {
    --pdf-toolbar-color: black;
  }

  /* for light theme */
  .pdf-app.light {
    --pdf-toolbar-color: white;
  }
</style>

Custom css properties specification

Property	Applied to selectors	Description
--pdf-app-background-color	.pdf-app	Background color for root pdf container
--pdf-button-hover-font-color	.pdf-app .toolbarButton:hover .pdf-app .toolbarButton:focus .pdf-app .dropdownToolbarButton:hover .pdf-app .secondaryToolbarButton:hover .pdf-app .secondaryToolbarButton:focus	Hover color for buttons of toolbar and secondary toolbar
--pdf-button-toggled-color	.pdf-app .toolbarButton.toggled .pdf-app .splitToolbarButton.toggled > .toolbarButton.toggled .pdf-app .secondaryToolbarButton.toggled .pdf-app .outlineItemToggler:hover .pdf-app .outlineItemToggler:hover + a .pdf-app .outlineItemToggler:hover ~ .outlineItems .pdf-app .outlineItem > a:hover .pdf-app .attachmentsItem > button:hover	Background color for toggleable buttons when selected, outline items on hover, attachment items on hover
--pdf-dialog-button-color	.pdf-app .dialog .overlayButton
--pdf-dialog-button-font-color	.pdf-app .dialog .overlayButton
--pdf-error-more-info-color	.pdf-app #errorMoreInfo
--pdf-error-more-info-font-color	.pdf-app #errorMoreInfo
--pdf-error-wrapper-color	.pdf-app #errorWrapper
--pdf-find-input-placeholder-font-color	.pdf-app #findInput::placeholder
--pdf-find-message-font-color	.pdf-app #findMsg
--pdf-find-results-count-color	.pdf-app #findResultsCount
--pdf-find-results-count-font-color	.pdf-app #findResultsCount
--pdf-horizontal-toolbar-separator-color	.pdf-app .horizontalToolbarSeparator
--pdf-input-color	.pdf-app .toolbarField
--pdf-input-font-color	.pdf-app .toolbarField
--pdf-loading-bar-color	.pdf-app #loadingBar .progress
--pdf-loading-bar-secondary-color	.pdf-app #loadingBar .progress.indeterminate .glimmer
--pdf-not-found-color	.pdf-app #findInput.notFound
--pdf-overlay-container-color	.pdf-app #overlayContainer	Background color for overlay container of dialogs
--pdf-overlay-container-dialog-color	.pdf-app #overlayContainer > .container > .dialog	Background color for document properties, password, print dialogs
--pdf-overlay-container-dialog-font-color	.pdf-app #overlayContainer > .container > .dialog	Font color for document properties, password, print dialogs
--pdf-overlay-container-dialog-separator-color	.pdf-app .dialog .separator
--pdf-sidebar-content-color	.pdf-app #sidebarContent	Background color for sidebar
--pdf-split-toolbar-button-separator-color	.pdf-app .splitToolbarButtonSeparator .pdf-app .verticalToolbarSeparator
--pdf-thumbnail-selection-ring-selected-color	.pdf-app .thumbnail.selected > .thumbnailSelectionRing	Border color for selected thumbnail
--pdf-thumbnail-selection-ring-color	.pdf-app a:focus > .thumbnail > .thumbnailSelectionRing .pdf-app .thumbnail:hover > .thumbnailSelectionRing	Border color for thumbnail on hover and focus
--pdf-toolbar-color	.pdf-app #toolbarContainer .pdf-app .findbar .pdf-app .secondaryToolbar .pdf-app .doorHanger:after .pdf-app .doorHangerRight:after .pdf-app .dropdownToolbarButton > select .pdf-app .dropdownToolbarButton > select > option	Background color for toolbar, findbar, secondary toolbar, page scale dropdown
--pdf-toolbar-font-color	.pdf-app .toolbarButton .pdf-app .dropdownToolbarButton .pdf-app .secondaryToolbarButton .pdf-app .dropdownToolbarButton > select .pdf-app .toolbarLabel .pdf-app .outlineItem > a .pdf-app .attachmentsItem > button	Font color for toolbar, findbar, secondary toolbar, page scale dropdown, attachments name
--pdf-toolbar-sidebar-color	.pdf-app #toolbarSidebar

To use default icons import "vue-pdf-app/dist/icons/main.css";.

To use custom icons you have to implement icons.css:

.vue-pdf-app-icon::before,
.vue-pdf-app-icon::after {
  font-family: "your font family";
}

.vue-pdf-app-icon.zoom-out::before {
  content: "icon code";
}

Algorithm of theme apply

Toggle theme button is not implemented by default. It's up to you to decide where to place it. The button can be implemented with slots:

<vue-pdf-app>
  <template #footer="{ toggleTheme }">
    <button @click="toggleTheme" type="button">Toggle theme</button>
  </template>
</vue-pdf-app>

English is the default language for panel. Use <link rel="resource" type="application/l10n" href="path-to-localization-file"> in your html for localization. See localization file examples.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Vue-pdf-app demo</title>
    <link
      rel="stylesheet"
      href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/icons/main.css"
    />
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/vue"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]"></script>
    <style>
      body,
      html {
        padding: 0;
        margin: 0;
      }
    </style>
  </head>

  <body>
    <div id="app" style="height: 100vh;">
      <vue-pdf-app pdf="/sample.pdf"></vue-pdf-app>
    </div>
    <script>
      new Vue({
        components: {
          VuePdfApp: window["vue-pdf-app"]
        }
      }).$mount("#app");
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

<template>
  <div id="app">
    <vue-pdf-app pdf="/sample.pdf"></vue-pdf-app>
  </div>
</template>

<script lang="ts">
import "vue-pdf-app/dist/icons/main.css";
import VuePdfApp from "vue-pdf-app";
import { Component, Vue } from "vue-property-decorator";

@Component({
  components: {
    VuePdfApp
  }
})
export default class App extends Vue {}
</script>

PDFJS is a huge package (see the library size table above). So use lazy loading to split your bundle into small pieces.

<template>
  <div id="app">
    <vue-pdf-app></vue-pdf-app>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
import "vue-pdf-app/dist/icons/main.css";
import Loader from "./components/Loader.vue";

export default {
  name: "App",
  components: {
    "vue-pdf-app": () => ({
      component: new Promise((res) => {
        return setTimeout(
          () => res(import(/* webpackChunkName: "pdf-viewer" */ "vue-pdf-app")),
          4000
        );
      }),
      loading: Loader
    })
  }
};
</script>

You can interact with pdfjs library when pdf is opened via open event.

<template>
  <div id="app">
    <div id="pdf-wrapper">
      <vue-pdf-app pdf="/sample.pdf" @open="openHandler"></vue-pdf-app>
    </div>
    <div id="info">
      <h1>PDF info:</h1>
      <div v-for="item in info" :key="item.name">
        <span>{{ item.name }}: {{ item.value }}</span>
        <br />
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
import "vue-pdf-app/dist/icons/main.css";
import VuePdfApp from "vue-pdf-app";

export default {
  name: "App",
  components: {
    VuePdfApp
  },
  data() {
    return {
      info: []
    };
  },
  methods: {
    async openHandler(pdfApp) {
      this.info = [];
      const info = await pdfApp.pdfDocument
        .getMetadata()
        .catch(console.error.bind(console));

      if (!info) return;
      const props = Object.keys(info.info);
      props.forEach((prop) => {
        const obj = {
          name: prop,
          value: info.info[prop]
        };
        this.info.push(obj);
      });
    }
  }
};
</script>