# Server side pdf viewer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/server-side-pdf-viewer/196534>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 4, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/server-side-pdf-viewer/196534 "2007-12-04T20:04:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![snoop1990](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@snoop1990](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snoop1990)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/server-side-pdf-viewer/196534/1 "2007-12-04T20:04:57Z")

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Hey,  
I really like ruby on rails, but I do not know how to render a .pdf  
file on the server side. My aim is to publish .pdf files, but the  
reader should not feel the difference ! I do not want the .pdf files  
to be opened in the browsers .pdf reader. I want them to be integrated  
in the text. They should look like normal text, but with the style and  
all the formatting I designed on the .pdf. I tried different .pdf to  
html renders on the web, but they all do not render LATEX code inside  
the .pdf the write way.

So I am looking for an .pdf render which could be integrated in an  
ruby on rails application.