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Cant install Pdf.JS on React Native

See original GitHub issue

Configuration:

MacOS and Node 8.x
React Native

Steps to reproduce the problem:

Start a react native project
Yarn add pdfjs-dist
Try to import pdfjs-dist

You will get a error like this

Unable to resolve module ./zlib_bindings ./node_modules/zlib/lib/zlib_bindings doesn’t exist

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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yurydelendikcommented, Aug 22, 2017

is it possible to use webGL to achieve this ?

Anything is possible – you just need to implement logic similar to what src/display/canvas.js or src/display/svg.js implements.

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agilgur5commented, Jul 29, 2018

Was looking into this myself, so figured I might leave some notes for future readers. Initially I found https://github.com/iddan/react-native-canvas which could move a step forward in at least getting rendering to work. It uses a WebView under the hood. When looking into WebView support, I did find this issue: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/7157#issuecomment-394066217 , and the comment which points to https://github.com/xcarpentier/rn-pdf-reader-js , which was actually built for Expo. It similarly uses a WebView under the hood (and uses react-pdf instead of pdf.js directly)