How do I output an embed of a private file PDF in views

Darren Whittenham-Gray

5/5/24, 8:47 AM

What I am trying to do is embed a pair of PDF files on a page using a View; however because they are uploaded to the private file store I think I am on to a loser.

My preferred desire is to have the PDF viewable on the page generated by the View, but that they can be clicked on and downloaded as well.

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I am using Drupal 10

I have a content type where the user uploads two separate PDF’s into two separate ‘file’ entity slots. They are both saved a private rather than public files.

I have the view created (which is also restricted to the relevant roles) and have re-written the output for each one as

<object data="{{ field_[PDFname] }}" type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="500px">
      <p>Unable to display PDF file. <a href="{{ field_[PDFname] }}">Download</a> instead.</p>
    </object>

No embed occurs though and each time it falls back to the download option, presumably as I overlooked that object is not a permitted html tag.

I have also tried Embedded Google Docs Viewer but it fails because the PDF is set to private and not public

I also tried to set up Media PDF Thumbnail to see if there was a way around, however I struggled to even get it set up? I tried to follow the guide on the Drupal Contributed Modules pages and could not even set up a media entity view mode (I am probably overlooking something obvious)

Is it possible to embed a PDF in this way? Is there a pdf viewer that would achieve this?

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