PDF Viewer Mobile Showcase Demo Code Sample

Requirements

These packages are required to use these features in production. Trial keys have unlimited access to all features

Web SDKLive demo

Quickly enable PDF document viewing dimensions on mobile devices, such as Galaxy S5, Pixel 2, iPhones, and iPads. Adjust to these preset screen dimensions or define your own customized size.

This demo allows you to:

• View documents on mobile screens using preset screen dimensions
• Define custom screen dimensions via typing the values in the text field (Width x Height in pixels)
• Upload your own PDF file

Looking for more mobile application support? Please check out all of our Mobile SDK capabilities.

Implementation steps

To add PDF mobile viewing capability with WebViewer:

Step 1: Get started with WebViewer in your preferred web stack Step 2: Add the ES6 JavaScript sample code provided in this guide

Once you generate your license key, it will automatically be included in your sample code below.

// ES6 Compliant Syntax
// GitHub Copilot - GPT-4 Model - August 26, 2025
// File: pdf-viewer-mobile/index.js

import WebViewer from '@pdftron/webviewer';

const licenseKey = 'YOUR_WEBVIEWER_LICENSE_KEY';

const devices = [
  { label: 'Galaxy S5', value: 'galaxys5', checked: true, size: { width: 360, height: 640 } },
  { label: 'Pixel 2', value: 'pixel2', size: { width: 411, height: 731 } },
  { label: 'iPhone 6/7/8', value: 'iphone678', size: { width: 375, height: 667 } },
  { label: 'iPhone X', value: 'iphonex', size: { width: 375, height: 812 } },
  { label: 'iPad', value: 'iPad', size: { width: 768, height: 1024 } },
  { label: 'iPad Pro', value: 'iPadPro', size: { width: 1024, height: 1366 } },
];

function setViewerSize() {
  const width = parseInt(textWidth.value, 10);
  const height = parseInt(textHeight.value, 10);

  element.style.height = `${height}px`;
  const inner = document.getElementById('wc-viewer');
  inner.style.width = `${width}px`;
  inner.style.height = `${height}px`;
}

const element = document.getElementById('viewer');
const onLoad = async () => {
  element.style.display = 'flex';
  element.style.alignItems = 'center';
  element.style.justifyContent = 'center';

  setTimeout(() => {
    textWidth.value = devices[0].size.width;
    textHeight.value = devices[0].size.height;
    setViewerSize();
  }, 500);

};

// Initialize WebViewer and load default document
WebViewer(
  {
    path: '/lib',
    licenseKey: licenseKey, 
    initialDoc: 'https://apryse.s3.amazonaws.com/public/files/samples/magazine.pdf',
    enableFilePicker: true, // Enable file picker to open files. In WebViewer -> menu icon -> Open File
  },
  element
).then(() => {
  onLoad();
});

// UI section
//
// Helper code to add controls to the viewer holding the buttons and dropdown

// Create a container for all controls (labels, radio buttons and button)
const controlsContainer = document.createElement('div');

// Rotation state
let rotated = false;

// Create a radio group for devices
const deviceGroup = document.createElement('div');
deviceGroup.className = 'device-group';
devices.forEach(device => {
  const label = document.createElement('label');
  label.textContent = device.label;
  label.htmlFor = device.value;
  label.className = 'radio-label-class';

  const radio = document.createElement('input');
  radio.type = 'radio';
  radio.name = 'device';
  radio.id = device.value;
  radio.value = device.value;
  radio.checked = device.checked;


  radio.onchange = () => {
    const selectedDevice = devices.find(d => d.value === radio.value);
    if (selectedDevice) {
      let w = selectedDevice.size.width;
      let h = selectedDevice.size.height;
      if(rotated){
        [w, h] = [h, w];
      }
      textWidth.value = w;
      textHeight.value = h;
      setViewerSize();
    }
  };

  deviceGroup.appendChild(radio);
  deviceGroup.appendChild(label);
});
controlsContainer.appendChild(deviceGroup);

const labelWidth = document.createElement('label');
labelWidth.textContent = 'W:';
labelWidth.className = 'label-class';
controlsContainer.appendChild(labelWidth);

const textWidth = document.createElement('input');
textWidth.type = 'text';
textWidth.className = 'text-style';
textWidth.oninput = () => {
  setViewerSize();
};

controlsContainer.appendChild(textWidth);

const labelHeight = document.createElement('label');
labelHeight.textContent = 'H:';
labelHeight.className = 'label-class';
controlsContainer.appendChild(labelHeight);

const textHeight = document.createElement('input');
textHeight.type = 'text';
textHeight.className = 'text-style';

textHeight.oninput = () => {
  setViewerSize();
};

controlsContainer.appendChild(textHeight);

// Create a button to swap dimensions
const buttonSwap = document.createElement('button');
buttonSwap.className = 'btn-style';
buttonSwap.onclick = async () => {
  rotated = !rotated;
  [textWidth.value, textHeight.value] = [textHeight.value, textWidth.value];
  setViewerSize();
};

// button's image
const img = new Image(20, 20);
img.src = "images/mobile-rotate-blue6.svg";
img.style.width = "20px";
img.style.height = "20px";

buttonSwap.appendChild(img);

controlsContainer.appendChild(buttonSwap);

// Apply classes for styling using CSS
controlsContainer.className = 'control-container';

// Append elements to the controls container
element.parentElement.insertBefore(controlsContainer, element);