Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows a way to embed (i.e. display on that exact page) a pdf file that I’ve added to my github repo (in like a folder called _pdfs in the main directory). I’d like to avoid just having a link that the viewer can click on which opens in another page, or prompts a down…

[Daniel Silveira] Recommended way to embed PDF in HTML? html, pdf asked by Daniel Silveira on 11:55PM - 14 Nov 08 UTC

I had this exact requirement and found that using HMTL object worked in a single line of code. Source: jekyll - Inserting my pdf in my blogs - Stack Overflow <object data="../assets/path/to/document.pdf" width="1000" height="1000" type='application/pdf'></object>

Quick reply to let other readers know this still seems to work on Jekyll Github Pages. Thanks to @pacharanero for sharing, bc embed, iframe etc do not work.

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