Button to open pdf file?

[Korn_Tris]

hello. I have a file column with i attach a pdf file
then i have another column with parsejson pdfURL to display it to another canvas column.

However sometimes the display is not working. So i was thinking to have button column to open PDF file like in the first photo (when i click the file directly, it will display pdf, but i want to use button instead of clicking at the file)

is there any way to do this? or any formula for the button

[Rickard_Abraham]

Hey there!
I did some research and found a nice solution that Coda uses themselves when you run Embed() on a PDF.

You can simply give the URL to Google’s Docs Viewer, something like this for a button formula:

OpenWindow("https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=" + thisRow.PDF._Merge().ToText().ParseJSON("publicUrl"))

And thanks to you, I added this functionality to my PDF Pack, it gives you a cleaner formula for getting the URL:

Note that it’s opened in a new tab, not exactly what you asked for

[Korn_Tris]

@Rickard_Abraham

OpenWindow(“https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=” + thisRow.PDF._Merge().ToText().ParseJSON(“publicUrl”))

@Rickard_Abraham thank you very much, this is exactly what i want. even it opens in a new window - it works well for me.

i take a look at your pack and it is very cool. Does it support Thai language and all?

[Rickard_Abraham]

Good question! I did a little test and it seems pretty good except it fails for some accents, at least in this sample pdf

ReadPDFs("https://www.pickup-thai.com/podcast/CreamyCoconutPod2.pdf")

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I tried different encodings but it just made it worse, not sure where it goes wrong, could be something weird with the sample doc too.

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