Hi...

I'm storing PDF's in a MySQL LONGBLOB field.

I wish to display these PDF's, sometimes within other pages, and sometimes as stand-alone pages. 

I think iFrames will work ok for this purpose, but am happy to be guided to another solution. 

How can I get the iFrame to print the PDF file, please?

I intended to use an iframe with the source url = ""data:application/pdf;base64," + Data"

with data being a text variable, populated by a database query (example at the bottom). But I'm getting "Failed to load PDF document" at the moment.

Help or direction would be very much appreciated.

Example file:

""

%PDF-1.3

%âãÏÓ

1 0 obj

<<

/Type /Catalog

/Outlines 2 0 R

/Pages 3 0 R

>>

endobj

2 0 obj

<<

/Type /Outlines

/Count 0

>>

endobj

3 0 obj

<<

/Type /Pages

/Count 2

/Kids [ 4 0 R 6 0 R ] 

>>

endobj

4 0 obj

<<

/Type /Page

/Parent 3 0 R

/Resources <<

/Font <<

/F1 9 0 R 

>>

/ProcSet 8 0 R

>>

/MediaBox [0 0 612.0000 792.0000]

/Contents 5 0 R

>>

endobj

5 0 obj

<< /Length 1074 >>

stream

2 J

BT

0 0 0 rg

/F1 0027 Tf

57.3750 722.2800 Td

( A Simple PDF File ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 688.6080 Td

( This is a small demonstration .pdf file - ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 664.7040 Td

( just for use in the Virtual Mechanics tutorials. More text. And more ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 652.7520 Td

( text. And more text. And more text. And more text. ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 628.8480 Td

( And more text. And more text. And more text. And more text. And more ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 616.8960 Td

( text. And more text. Boring, zzzzz. And more text. And more text. And ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 604.9440 Td

( more text. And more text. And more text. And more text. And more text. ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 592.9920 Td

( And more text. And more text. ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 569.0880 Td

( And more text. And more text. And more text. And more text. And more ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 557.1360 Td

( text. And more text. And more text. Even more. Continued on page 2 ...) Tj

ET

endstream

endobj

6 0 obj

<<

/Type /Page

/Parent 3 0 R

/Resources <<

/Font <<

/F1 9 0 R 

>>

/ProcSet 8 0 R

>>

/MediaBox [0 0 612.0000 792.0000]

/Contents 7 0 R

>>

endobj

7 0 obj

<< /Length 676 >>

stream

2 J

BT

0 0 0 rg

/F1 0027 Tf

57.3750 722.2800 Td

( Simple PDF File 2 ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 688.6080 Td

( ...continued from page 1. Yet more text. And more text. And more text. ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 676.6560 Td

( And more text. And more text. And more text. And more text. And more ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 664.7040 Td

( text. Oh, how boring typing this stuff. But not as boring as watching ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 652.7520 Td

( paint dry. And more text. And more text. And more text. And more text. ) Tj

ET

BT

/F1 0010 Tf

69.2500 640.8000 Td

( Boring.  More, a little more text. The end, and just as well. ) Tj

ET

endstream

endobj

8 0 obj

[/PDF /Text]

endobj

9 0 obj

<<

/Type /Font

/Subtype /Type1

/Name /F1

/BaseFont /Helvetica

/Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding

>>

endobj

10 0 obj

<<

/Creator (Rave \(http://www.nevrona.com/rave\))

/Producer (Nevrona Designs)

/CreationDate (D:20060301072826)

>>

endobj

xref

0 11

0000000000 65535 f

0000000019 00000 n

0000000093 00000 n

0000000147 00000 n

0000000222 00000 n

0000000390 00000 n

0000001522 00000 n

0000001690 00000 n

0000002423 00000 n

0000002456 00000 n

0000002574 00000 n

trailer

<<

/Size 11

/Root 1 0 R

/Info 10 0 R

>>

startxref

2714

%%EOF