Vuzit - An AJAX powered PDF Viewer
Vuzit is a new service offered by Hovitate, LLC that allows you to embed pdf's into your site in a slick AJAX powered viewer. It employs lazy-loading so that viewing large documents is blazingly fast and exposes a JavaScript API allowing you to interact with the document in JavaScript easily.
Vuzit - Demo
After including the relevant scripts and creating a blank div for the viewer to reside in, it is simple to embed a viewer with the configuration options you would like.
var viewer = new vuzit.Viewer(document.getElementById("vuzit_viewer"));
viewer.setUrl("http://www.welcomingcenter.org/documents/PMP.pdf", { zoom: 1, page: 2 });
Since Vuzit uses pure JavaScript, CSS, and HTML it does not require any browser plugin. Browser plugins have been notorious for causing browser instability problems and causing cross-browser inconsistencies. Get a developer key from their signup page and check out their Starter Tutorial today!
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john_nidelc replied on Tue, 2008/05/20 - 2:42pm
cera replied on Wed, 2008/07/02 - 10:54am
What document types are supported by Vuzit?
Currently PDF files are supported. We are adding Microsoft Office documents, images and media files support soon.
This is taken directly from the Vuzit FAQ. Great work guys!
ajaxdocumentviewer replied on Sun, 2009/01/11 - 12:10am