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title: "Perspective - PDF Viewer"
description: "The PDF Viewer component displays a PDF that's hosted on a web server by providing a URL to the source property."
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# Perspective - PDF Viewer

> The PDF Viewer component displays a PDF that's hosted on a web server by providing a URL to the source property.

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**Component Palette Icon**:  

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## Description

The PDF Viewer component displays a PDF that's hosted on a web server by providing a URL to the source property. A simple approach is to create either a File Resource or Mounted Folder within [Web Dev](ignition-modules/web-dev/web-dev.md), and set the source on the component to the resource's endpoint.

## Properties

Most Properties have binding options. For more information on Bindings, see [Types of Bindings in Perspective](ignition-modules/perspective/working-with-perspective-components/bindings-in-perspective/bindings-in-perspective.md).
This section only documents the Props Category of properties. The other Categories are described on the [Perspective Component Properties](ignition-modules/perspective/working-with-perspective-components/perspective-component-properties.md) page.

| Name           | Description        | Property Type      |
| -------------- | ------------------------ | ------------------ |
| showPageNumber | If true, the current page number and page count will be shown at the bottom of the component.     | value: boolean     |
| source         | Path to the .pdf file to be displayed. Expects a URL to a PDF hosted on a web server.    | value: string      |
| style          | Sets a style for this component. Full menu of [style options](appendix/reference-pages/style-reference.md) is available for text, background, margin and padding, border, shape and miscellaneous. You can also specify a [style class](ignition-modules/perspective/styles/style-classes/style-classes.md). | object             |
| page           | The current page being displayed.  | value: numeric |
| pageCount      | The number of pages the pdf contains. Read only.        | value: numeric |

## Scripting
See the [Perspective - PDF Viewer Scripting](perspective-pdf-viewer-scripting.md) page for the full list of scripting functions available for this component.