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No toolbar with print option in embed

When using the embed javscript to include a shared PDF in my page the toolbar that appears at the bottom only has the zoom in our out options.

Is there anyway to include the full toolbar that includes print options like what is seen when directly clicking preview in dropbox?

My users need to be able to print from the embedded files without having to open each in a separate window.

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Greg-DB

Unfortunately, the Dropbox Embedder doesn't have an option for that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

hattmall

Can you recommend an alternate solution?

Or I notice that inspecting the embed there is a png preview of the file, is there anyway to access that as that would allow me to create a javascript button to print that png which would be sufficient.

Greg-DB

I can't offer any other solutions using the Embedder unfortunately. You can find all of the supported options for the Embedder in the Embedder documentation, but unfortunately there's nothing for programmatically enabling a print button or accessing the embedded content like that.

If you need more control over the integration, you could use the Dropbox API instead (such as /2/files/download), but that would be substantially more work.

hattmall

Ok, thank you, I got it working by changing the ending of the shared link to raw=1 and putting it in an iframe. The files now render in the browser and a print button can be made with JS. Perhaps this only works because the files are PDF, but it fits my needs.