Cannot share PDFs to iBooks, Kindle or Play Books |
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Issue descriptionChrome Version : All, AFAICT. OS Version: iOS 10, 11. Steps: 1. Open any PDF in Chrome 2. Select share, no iBooks for instance. Works as expected in Safari. For instance https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf
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Dec 12 2017
Hi There are two different menus in Chrome to share PDF: - the share button allows you to share the URL of the PDF, if you want to add the link to a post or an email - the open in button allows you to download the PDF and store it in an external app (like ibooks). Ibook is the second one. So to open a PDF in ibook, open the PDF in Chrome, tap on it, tap "open in" in the bottom right corner, and select iBook.
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Dec 12 2017
Olivier, is it possible for Chrome to provide multiple activity item sources for PDFs?
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Dec 12 2017
I think so, but it requires to download the pdf first.
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Dec 12 2017
Gregory, did we recently make Share UI presentation asynchronous? If so, then downloading PDF should not be very hard.
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Dec 12 2017
Yes, it is now asynchronous for JavaScript injection. I would imagine though that since downloads can take a much longer amount of time, some UI would be needed to indicate that an operation is occurring.
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Dec 12 2017
Comment #6 has a fair point. I suspect that Safari can simply extract PFD from WKWebView via private API, which is not available for Chrome. We should probably file a bug against WKWebView to allow retrieving the loaded document. Without this API we can't fix the bug. |
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Comment 1 by pkl@chromium.org
, Dec 12 2017Components: UI>Browser>Mobile>Share
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)