# pipwerks/PDFObject

A lightweight JavaScript utility for dynamically embedding PDFs in HTML documents.

Repository: https://github.com/pipwerks/PDFObject
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pdfobject
Homepage: http://pdfobject.com/
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-04-26T08:07:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 31/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 18, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5642, "days_push": 494, "days_rel": 566, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2500, forks 964 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:56.895293+00:00)

## What it is
PDFObject is a lightweight JavaScript utility for dynamically embedding PDF files into HTML documents using iframes. It detects browser PDF support via navigator.pdfViewerEnabled and provides fallback content when inline PDF embedding is unavailable.

## Use cases
- embed a pdf in a web page
- display pdf files inline in html
- show fallback content when browser can't render pdfs
- embed pdfs in a vue 3 app
- detect whether the browser supports inline pdf viewing
- embed base64-encoded pdfs with a custom download filename

## When to choose
- you need to embed PDFs in desktop web pages with graceful fallbacks
- you want a tiny dependency-free utility rather than a full PDF renderer
- you need simple browser PDF support detection
- you use Vue 3 and want a drop-in <PdfObject> component

## When to avoid
- you need to render PDFs on mobile browsers, which don't support inline embedding
- you need to render, annotate, or manipulate PDF content in JavaScript (use PDF.js)
- you need server-side PDF generation or processing

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: pdf-viewer, ui-components
- domain: pdf, web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: pdf-embedding, javascript, iframe, fallback-content, vue-plugin, nodejs

## Member repositories
- pipwerks/PDFObject (main) score 31

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:56.895293+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:26:57.018324+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pipwerks/PDFObject (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:56.895293+00:00, sha a270c1a80bd8)
  - homepage: http://pdfobject.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:09:14.400047+00:00, sha efafd61647db)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/pdfobject (fetched 2026-08-29T10:09:14.410821+00:00, sha 0e22371f9a06)
  - site_page: https://pdfobject.com/vue (fetched 2026-08-29T10:09:14.409013+00:00, sha f3b9c5f01b7e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.