Question

I have a hybrid mobile app built on Trigger.io that opens links (some of them are user generated content) in the in-app child browser (forge.tabs module) per default. When trying to open a .pdf document the screen will stay blank white (tested on both Android and iOS).

Here is a cut down version of the code I’m using:

$(document).on('click', 'a', function() {
  window.forge.tabs.open( $(this).attr('href') );
  return false;
});

I would expect to either view the document in the in-app browser or be able to download it to the device.

Answer 1

Assuming your PDFs are local, you’ll need to do a “getURL” first.

Here’s a function that works just fine for me:

function showPDF (pdfName) {
    forge.tools.getURL(pdfName, function (myPDF ) { forge.tabs.open(myPDF); });
}

Then just call showPDF with a relative or absolute url i.e.

<button class="btn" type="button" onclick="showPDF('assets/pdf/sample.pdf');">