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Youve probably heard this before and many times you can find a module that provides the functionality you need or at least pretty close to what you need. Php developers new to drupal newcomers prerequisites. The pdf support is still very alpha at the moment, but its workable enough that i would like to bring your attention to it. File viewer no further development, dev version, yes, no, yes, pdf.
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