How can I embed a PDF with MyST?

[emilopez]

Hi, I would like to embed a pdf file.

I tried installing the pdfembed sphinx extension.

I added in this in my _config.yml

sphinx:
  extra_extensions: [ 'sphinxcontrib.pdfembed' ]

and then in the md file

```{eval-rst}
:pdfembed:`src:_static/m.pdf, height:500, width:500, align:middle`

and copy m.pdf to `_static` directory,  finally I did  `jb build mini_book`. the build process completes without errors,  but then I cant see the pdf in the html.

I tried changing the path to the file, using `src:/_static/m.pdf`,  `src:./_static/m.pdf`,  but there was no case, it didn't work.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance.

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[firasm]

Here's how I embed PDFs into my Jupyterbook:

<iframe src="../../2021-02-01 - Lecture 3.pdf" width="100%" height="800px" frameBorder="0"> </iframe>

Here it is in action, the repository is open if you want to have a look at the full code and file path/structure.

Seems to work for me.

[emilopez]

Thanks! that worked for me, without using any extensions!

[fdion]

A neat advantage to using .* for extension is that you can then have, say, a .png and a .pdf and when using html builder it'll use the png and when using pdflatex as builder, it'll use the pdf

[choldgraf]

I'm not familiar with that Sphinx extension, but it does seem like it's doing something very similar to what @firasm describes, so I'd recommend just trying that.

For your specific question, I guess the extension is using page metadata to parameterize itself. You should try doing that with MyST Markdown rather than eval-rst like so:

pdfembed: src:_static/m.pdf, height:500, width:500, align:middle
---
# My content

and so on...

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[choldgraf]

Just a note that I converted this issue into a discussion here - we are trying to keep general questions / conversations / etc to the Discussions board, and to save the GitHub issues for items with actionable next steps related to a repository's codebase