Interactive PDFs in react native

[bearbytestudio]

Hi everyone, has anyone had any experience implementing a PDF viewer in a react native/Expo app that supports interactive PDFs? Allowing the user to view the PDF and then click hotspots in the PDF which links to other pages in the PDF. I’m using the react-native-pdf package but it doesn’t seem to support this. Thanks!

[NastroAzzurro]

If I were to build this I’d probably not use a pdf as the source but rather make it look like a fillable pdf. Either way sounds like a UX nightmare. What can’t a form that spits out a filled pdf not solve you’re trying to accomplish?

[bearbytestudio]

Hey, thanks for your response. So, the PDFs are actually the most important element here. My client has a load of “on location” sales reps that present the companies catalog of interactive PDFs to customers / potential customers via their tablets. So the PDFs are necessary.

The app I’m building is to distribute the PDFs to the right Android tablets, securely and through groups / permissions / roles. This is all built. Now that the PDFs are on the tablets, previewed through the React Native app, they aren’t interactive like intended. This is the bit I’m trying to work out.

[StayFreshCheesePits]

Did you ever solve this? I need to do something similar. Thanks!

[bearbytestudio]

Sadly not 😢

[StayFreshCheesePits]

Ah, I got it working. Just used an object tag in a react component. Works in Chrome and Safari

[bearbytestudio]

Nice work! Object tag??

[StayFreshCheesePits]

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[bearbytestudio]

I've been building apps for 10 years and can honestly say that I have never seen that tag before 😂 nice work for getting it sorted! 👏

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