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Error embedding PDFs in Rise
Good morning!
I wanted to adress a small problem with embedding PDFs from web hosting. Sometimes when loading the courses (like one out of 5) we don't get the view of the embedded content. There i...
I can report the same issue as described above. Sporadic loading of the embedded PDFs which renderes this as useless in our use case. No matter where the PDF is loaded.
Inspecting the iframe element shows that there is some weird part injected in front of the actual PDF link. Why there's the Google Drive viewer involved? Is this a local browser preference? Also some characters are converted to HTML entities. If I take such link, get rid of the GD viewer part, clean the HTML entities, PDF is loaded in browser just fine (not within Rise).
Mangled URL and viewer thingy looks to me like possible culprit.<iframe class="embed__media" src="https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https%3A//www.HERE_GOES_THE_FULL_PATH_TO_PDF_FILE.pdf&embedded=true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
