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Core / Guides / Electron
Welcome to Apryse.
This guide will show you how to integrate WebViewer Document Viewer & Editor into an Electron desktop application.
You can watch a step-by-step video to help you get started.
You can also download a ready-to-go sample on GitHub.
Prior to starting, you should have already installed Node and npm.
electron.js
documentation.Clone the webviewer-electron-sample
repository:
git clone https://github.com/PDFTron/webviewer-electron-sample.git
Enter the directory and run npm install
:
cd webviewer-electron-sample
npm install
This will automatically download and extract the Apryse WebViewer Package.
To run the sample, make sure you are in the webviewer-electron-sample
directory and execute
npm start
You should see the application start up. It will load the WebViewer and display the PDF sample in /public/files
:
If you run into issues with installing and/or running the application, please return and ensure you have the prerequisites installed.
To call more WebViewer APIs, open /src/App.js
in your favorite text editor and add the API calls to the callback for the WebViewer instantiation:
For example, if you want to change the theme of the WebViewer to dark mode, you would add the following:
Execute npm start
again and the theme of the viewer will change:
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