View PDF in Laravel

If I understand you correctly, you just need to make a link to the pdf so

<a href="file.pdf">Open the pdf!</a>

or if you use blade and the pdf file is somewhere in your public directory:

<a href="{{ asset('files/file.pdf') }}">Open the pdf!</a>

There is also a link_to_asset function that you can use in blade.

{{ link_to_asset('files/file.pdf', 'Open the pdf!') }}

Thank you guys

for some reason, what laravel package do you recommend to view pdf file without going out of the application?

@rambo You can also return a file in controller response. I've done this and it works fine with chrome (haven't tried other browsers).

return response()->file($pathToFile);

https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/responses#file-responses

Today I'm using response->file() method to show a pdf file in the browser but instead of showing that file in the browser, it starts downloading. Is there any other way to do that same work.

@muazamhussain same here. The response->file() gets file to be downloaded instead of showing in browser.

Is there a way where we can force to download only a smaller portion of the file?