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I am trying to load a PDF from a link using colorbox but although the colorbox window opens the pdf is just text characters. This is what the link looks like:

This is what my link looks like:

<a href="http://example.com/sites/default/files/menus/menu.pdf?width=500&height=500&iframe=false" class="colorbox colorbox-load">View</a>

and when it's rendered out it looks like this:

<a href="http://example.com/sites/default/files/menus/menu.pdf?width=500&amp;height=500&amp;iframe=true" class="colorbox colorbox-load init-colorbox-processed cboxElement">View</a>

which looks right to me but the pdf is just text characters. The pdf loads fine just as a link opened in your browser.

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  • Where are you making the link at? Jun 19, 2015 at 18:45

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I suggest you, use this module https://www.drupal.org/project/pdf_to_imagefield since colorbox is designed to display images.

If you still want to show the complete pdf. You could embed it in a basic page:

Download file

You can then reference the page by node id.

Link name

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