The IDRViewer is a pure HTML/JavaScript/CSS viewer designed to display PDF and Office documents in the browser. It works alongside BuildVu which converts PDF documents to HTML5 or SVG pages.
The IDRViewer is the component responsible for loading and displaying the pages in the web browser. It also handles functionality such as zoom, page layouts, and selection mode.
We also provide a number of user-interfaces that can be used as provided or used as a starting point for building your own user interface. The templates are built using webpack (see NPM Tasks below).
- Complete UI (source, demo)
- Clean UI (source, demo)
- Simple UI (source, demo)
- Slideshow UI (source, demo)
examples/ - The built UI templates (Complete, Clean, Simple, Slideshow)
src/
css/ - The CSS for page display, layouts (Continuous, Magazine, Presentation) and transition effects
js/ - The main codebase (idrviewer.js) and other utilities (annotations, search, etc)
templates/ - The UI templates that are compiled into a single index.html file with webpack
test/
document/ - The document used for testing
js/ - Playwright tests
- Install node.js
- Open terminal/command prompt & cd into idrviewer
- Run
npm install - To run the tasks, run
npm run <taskname>where<taskname>is one of the following:- 'jshint' is for running static analysis on the JavaScript files.
- 'playwright' is for running the automated IDRViewer tests (in /src/test/)
- 'test' is for jshint and playwright tests
- 'webpack' is for building the UIs
- 'webpack-watch' is for building the UIs and watching for changes
Copyright 2025 IDRsolutions
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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