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• Accepted Answer

  I don't think there is a clear strategy in Titanium at the moment how it handles other MIME types than HTML. I had a discussion in the old forums about this topic. For me, sometimes PDFs get displayed via the Acrobat plugin, sometimes I see just the binary data of the PDF as plaintext.

  A reliable solution is to call the system's standard viewer via the Process API. Under Linux you can call 'xdg-open' and on OS X just 'open' and give the PDF as argument. This works well for me (I still have to figure out how to do it on Windows but I'm sure there is a system call as well)

•             function openpdf(docpath){
                  var pdfprocess=Titanium.Process.createProcess({
                              args:['cmd','/C',docpath],
                          });
                          //alert("p");
                  pdfprocess.launch();
              }
  

  where docpath is something like "c:\dir name\dir\filename.pdf"

• Adding ‹embed src=“filename.pdf” width=“100%” height=“100%”› in the HTML works for me.

  Though I'm getting lots of "unlockFocus called too many time." errors in OSX now…

• How about building a 3rd party PDF viewer with the help of some manual toolkits to help dispaly and read PDF files? I am not so sure about it. But I hope you success. Good luck.

  Best regrads,
  Arron