在浏览器中查看Word文档和PDF？

Question

I am currently working on a site that has to have the ability for users to view documents that are uploaded, however they need to be viewable in browser.

I know there is the Google docs viewer (however this does not seem to work when trying toopen it in a fancybox overlay), but are they any other alternatives, maybe some API's that could turn them into Flash or similar, and then I could simply embed it as a swf?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

but are they any other alternatives, maybe some API's that could turn them into Flash or similar, and then I could simply embed it as a swf?

Yes, there are APIs for converting word and PDF documents to Flash (swf). There is also a possibility to convert them to pure HTML so that the documents are shown directly in browser without Word or PDF software (Adobe Reader, etc.). Personally I use Print2Flash utility for putting my documents online. It converts my documents to both Flash and HTML formats at the same time. I do the conversion manually but there is an API for conversion as well as I can see here: http://print2flash.com/print2flashapi.php

Answer 2

You said "however this does not seem to work when trying toopen it in a fancybox overlay" Did you tried with headers :

header("Content-type:application/pdf");
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word");

For swf conversion see this