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Vuzit - An AJAX powered PDF Viewer

01.30.2008
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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.

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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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Comments

John Nidelc replied on Tue, 2008/05/20 - 2:42pm

screen shotscreen shottry ajax document viewer http://www.ajaxdocumentviewer.com/ much faster, upload and link to any kind of document, full SLL support.Screenshot

Chris Cera replied on Wed, 2008/07/02 - 10:54am

While I welcome competition in the space, much of the website has the same text descriptions as Vuzit which I find annoying. In looking at the 3rd item of their FAQ, you can clearly see they forgot to remove the word Vuzit from it:

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!

Ajax Document Viewer replied on Sun, 2009/01/11 - 12:10am

We have tried Vuzit, and I must say that it is really fast, easy to use and does not need *any* kind of plugin. When I say plugin, it does not even need flash! I really like the way they have made the most of css and javascript in their application. Good work Cera.

Dan Jonsson replied on Sun, 2010/12/26 - 6:18pm

A great alternative for anyone who does not want to publish their documents to the web is to use the open source viewer flexpaper http://flexpaper.devaldi.com

Dan Jonsson replied on Sun, 2010/12/26 - 6:20pm

oops forgot to add the link clickable to the open source PDF viewer: Click here for flexpaper

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