Hi! In our apps, we are diplaying PDFs using the PDF Reader component in Appfarm. This usually works very well, apart from the following two cases. The pages in some PDFs will overlap when using the PDF reader component (the content is cut). See image below (1). Not sure how to deal with this, or …

I haven’t looked in the first case yet, but for the second PDF that crashes the tab, I have a hunch that it might be related to how the PDF is made. It consists of many large image layers. When Appfarm attempts to render the PDF in the PDF reader, the Service Worker responsible for processing the P…

Hi, that’s very interesting. Can you share the PDFs you use? // Erik

A fix for the issue with overlapping PDFs is on the way. In the meantime, it seems that using the PDF reader in Single Page mode resolves the issue. // Erik

Struggling to preview PDFs with PDF reader

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Olav February 12, 2026, 8:11am 5

The issue with PDFs overlapping and being rotated the wrong way has been resolved in version 134.

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