如何从PDF转换为base64

Question

I am making a request get and is returning a pdf. I have received the pdf encoded in base64 and I have not had any problems showing it. In this case I have a problem because what the get returns is the following:

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As I have seen what I am getting is a pdf in its pure format, it can be seen in: http://www.printmyfolders.com/understanding-pdf .

So how can this format be converted to base64 or in what form could the pdf be displayed?

Answer 1

what do you mean by displaying it? im assuming since you've tagged this with javascript, that you want it to be downloadable from the browser?

Note that when you download a PDF, browsers in general will open it for you in a new tab/window, which makes it seem like it's being "displayed", when it's actually just downloading first then displaying it for you.

To allow the PDf to be downloaded, you'll need your backend server to provide a file stream so the browser will know to download it (ie pop open the download file dialog)