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Can a PDF be MIME encoded and included as part of the payload of an HTML page? This site shows that you can include a MIME-encoded image or a CSS in an HTML page: http://www.greywyvern.com/code/php/binary2base64/ -- but I don't know what the markup would be for an encoded PDF included in an HTML page. Thanks.

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  • Why don't you try it `data:application/pdf;base64,base64encodedpdf`, also what tag would you put it in? – Musa Jul 18 '12 at 22:21
  • Checkout this question and accepted answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/291813/best-way-to-embed-pdf-in-html – Jorge Ferreira Jul 18 '12 at 22:24

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I've tried it with iframe and embed, worked in chrome, opera and safari, no ie or ff

<iframe src="data:application/pdf;base64,base64encodedpdf"></iframe>
<embed src="data:application/pdf;base64,base64encodedpdf">

http://jsfiddle.net/yLx2W/
http://jsfiddle.net/yLx2W/1/

Maybe with some tweaking you can get them to work for ff and maybe ie.

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