# Help with pdf viewer **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [June 12, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-pdf-viewer/74927 "2023-06-12T20:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-pdf-viewer/74927/2 "2023-06-12T20:54:59Z")
> [@Perspective PDF Viewer - Public URLS Supported? - 8.04 nightly 08/14/19](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-pdf-viewer-public-urls-supported-8-04-nightly-08-14-19/27452): > > I have been looking around the existing forum posts on the PDF Perspective viewer and am trying to clarify its capabilities. I only know that: - You can't use a local file path on the gateway directly - To serve a pdf from the gateway itself to the viewer, you need to use WebDev module Ideally, my ideal situation would be to serve public URLS from S3 or some other Cloud Object Storage, but I have been unable to get that working. So instead, as a sanity check, I tried various public PDF… I don't have any experience with this but i believe the usual approach is the webdev module. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-pdf-viewer/74927)._