Pat Hawks

I always host the PDFs on the same server that is hosting WordPress.

When I go to that link, it gives me not a PDF, but an HTML page where I can download the PDF.

You need to provide a direct link to the PDF or it will not embed. Perhaps this will not work with files hosted on Dropbox?

The plugin already serves the https link if WordPress is serving the page over a secure connection.

if (is_ssl()) {
$embed = '<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url='.urlencode($url).'&embedded=true" class="'.$class.'"';
} else {
$embed = '<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url='.urlencode($url).'&embedded=true" class="'.$class.'"';
}

If you are having problems, it may be with your WordPress configuration.

I can’t see any reason this would be the case, but I do not have the latest version of InDesign, so I cannot test.

Can you give me an example of a Tagged Text file that does place correctly in CC2014? I’d love it if we could fix this together, but I cannot do it on my own.

This has been fixed in 1.0.6

OH!

$atts ≠ $attr

I’ll try to get a fix out as soon as possible.

I see. It seems not to be outputting *anything* at all.

I can confirm that the plugin works fine with WordPress 4, nothing much has changed that would affect this plugin. Could another plugin or theme be interfering?

Let me know if you figure out the problem.

I’ll take a look at things to see if I can figure out what is going on with the width. Sorry it gave you so much trouble.

As for the [embed] shortcode, this is part of the standard WordPress embed API. By hooking into this, the plugin automatically supports the standard method of setting height and width. That shortcode is not unique to this plugin.

It seems your theme does not correctly set the content width.

Did you try setting the width manually through the [embed] tag?

Are you still having trouble?

As far as I am aware, the Google Docs Viewer does not support any settings like this, or any settings at all – for that matter – aside from the URL of the PDF.

What problems are you having in Firefox?

You’re right.

For a long time, many users were reporting errors when trying to use the plugin with Internet Explorer that I could not reproduce myself. To get around these problems, I just defaulted to serving the PDF itself in an iFrame to Internet Explorer.

You can remove the conditional comments from the plugins source if you’d like to remove this behavior.

All the trouble with Internet Explorer happened a few years ago now. I’m not sure if Internet Explorer has fixed whatever was causing these issues but, as I said, I was never able to reproduce the problem myself, so I cannot say for sure if IE has changed at all.

It would not be difficult to modify the plugin to do what you ask.

The main purpose of this plugin is simply getting formatted text into InDesign; if you have specific needs for the default font, etc., that’s beyond the scope of the mainline plugin at this point.