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When I embed a PDF on a page it isn't appearing. Why is this?

If you are using the Chrome browser and you are not seeing a PDF after you have embedded it, the issue could be a setting on your browser. 

There are 2 options in Chrome, PDFs can either be

  • downloaded or
  • embedded 

To ensure your PDFs get embedded every time, complete the following steps:

1. In your browser, enter the following address into your address bar: chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments

The PDF documents area opens under the Privacy and security section of your browser settings.

2. Under Default behaviour, ensure the Open PDFs in Chrome radio button is selected.

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3. Return to the page you had embedded the PDF on refresh the page.

Result

The PDF will now appear embedded on the page.

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