Share, view & embed your PDFs and images

Linking straight to a .pdf file hands control to whatever the reader happens to be using. Desktop Chrome opens its built-in viewer. Some mobile browsers download the file instead of showing it. Corporate setups intercept it and open a desktop application. In-app browsers inside social and messaging apps frequently do the worst thing of all — a blank frame with a download prompt.

A hosted viewer removes that variability. The PDF renders inside a page you control, with the same toolbar, the same navigation, and the same first impression on every device. Readers land on something that looks intentional rather than on a file dialog, and you can put your name and colours around it instead of the browser's grey chrome.

It also means the URL is a page rather than a download. You can put it on a business card, behind a QR code, or in an email signature without worrying that half the people who open it will get a file in their downloads folder instead of the document you wanted them to read.

The simple layout is a clean, scrollable reader with page navigation, zoom, fit-to-width, and fullscreen. Pick it for anything people need to read closely or search through: reports, manuals, whitepapers, price lists, technical documentation. It gets out of the way and behaves the way readers expect a document to behave.

The flipbook layout renders each page as an image and animates a page turn. Pick it when the document is meant to be browsed rather than studied — menus, brochures, lookbooks, catalogues, programmes, portfolios. The page-turn interaction slows readers down slightly, which is the point when you want them to look at spreads rather than scan for a fact.

The gallery layout takes images rather than a PDF — up to twenty of them — and presents them as one scrollable column with prev/next controls and a page counter. Pick it when what you have is photographs rather than a designed document: a restaurant menu shot on a phone, a room-by-room property listing, a portfolio, a set of product shots. It saves you having to assemble a PDF just to put pictures on a link.

You are not locked in. The layout is a setting on the share, so you can publish as a simple viewer, look at it, and switch to flipbook without re-uploading the file or changing the URL you have already sent out. Switching between the PDF layouts and the image gallery is the one exception — those hold different kinds of content, so you pick that at upload time.

Every share carries your own logo, accent colour, title, and tagline, all of which are optional — leave them blank and the page renders as a clean document with no chrome at all. The accent colour tints the viewer frame so an embedded document sits inside your site's palette rather than fighting it.

The embed URL is a separate route that is deliberately framable, so you can drop the document into your own site with a standard iframe and no plugin. The canonical share page stays available at its own URL for people you send the link to directly, and both views render the same document from the same source.

Because the destination is a page rather than a file, you can update what people see without reissuing anything. The link you printed, embedded, or turned into a QR code keeps working while the content behind it changes.