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    • Overview
      • Suite or standalone
      • What Capable PDF Embed is
    • Get started
      • Common tasks
    • Macros
      • PDF embed
    • How it works
      • Three ways to supply a PDF
      • Slider and Scroller layouts
      • Zoom, including pinch
      • Pop-out and fullscreen viewing
      • Download button
      • Selectable text
      • Plain-English load errors
      • Capable Sites export
    • Administration
      • PDF Embed settings
    • Integrations
      • Working with other capabilities
      • No external account
      • Page attachments
      • Public PDF links
      • Confluence permissions requested
      • Error reporting
      • Legacy Connect key
    • Reference
      • Limits
      • What is not available
    • Troubleshooting
      • Export and published sites
        • Signed-out readers on a public page see "Sign in to view this PDF" or "PDF unavailable" instead of t
        • "This PDF is too large"
        • "The website hosting this PDF blocked the request."
        • "This file does not look like a PDF."
        • "This PDF is password protected."
        • Configured PDF disappeared after changing "Types of file"
        • Exporting the Confluence page to PDF or Word leaves a gap where the embed was
        • Published Capable Site shows "PDF embed: the configured PDF could not be exported"
        • Externally hosted PDF still points at the original website after a site deploy, and breaks for some
        • Adding the PDF's host to the Suite's approved domains made the embed stop working
        • Pasting a PDF link into the editor does not create a PDF embed
      • Everything else
        • Link that opens fine in a browser never loads in the macro, with no obvious error
        • None of the display options (layout, height, download, popup, fullscreen, text layer) appear in the
        • Height dropdown only offers "1"
        • New File Upload shows only "Uploading is only available when editing a page."
        • Initial Page is ignored, and there is no previous/next or page-number box
        • Opening pop-out or fullscreen shows the page the reader was on, not the configured Initial Page, and
        • Switching "Types of render" between Default and Canvas changes nothing
        • Zoom will not go beyond 200%, or below 20%
      • Permissions and access
        • Some readers see "You cannot view this PDF - you do not have permission to view this attachment"
        • Published Capable Site has no pop-out, no fullscreen, and text cannot be selected
        • Admin cannot find any PDF settings
        • Macro is replaced by "License Not Found" or "License expired"
      • Something is missing or looks wrong
        • PDF attached to the page is missing from the Attached File dropdown

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#Settings

Setting

Values

Default

What it changes

Types of file

-

Public URL

PDF URL

-

empty

Attached File

-

none selected

Upload a PDF

-

none

Viewer Options

-

Slider

Initial Page

-

1

Height

-

1

Download

-

off

Popup

-

off

Fullscreen

-

off

Render Text Layer

-

off

Types of render

-

Default

#Related

Macros

Every macro in this capability.

One macro, documented properly.

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