What is PDF

The PDF format an open standard, standardized as ISO 32000, developed by Adobe in 1992{{initiated by Adobe co-founder John Warnock in 1991}}. PDF can include text, image, audio, video, link, button, form fields…etc.

What is WordPress Tooltip

WordPress tooltip plugin is a tooltip plugin for wordpress, which be designed to help you create colorful, varied and graceful tooltip styles to present the content to your users, with lively and elegant animation effects, and save your valuable screen space.When the users hover over an item, the colorful tooltip popup box will display with the animation effect. You can add video, audio, image, and even other content which generated by 3rd wordpress plugins like QR code, Amazon AD, Google Map in tooltip popup box via wordpress standard editor, it is very easy to use.

What is WordPress Tooltips PDF Viewer Addon

In Windows / Linux / MacOS, there are a few free PDF Reader software. But on websites, for example, WordPress CMS, there are not many solutions, based on an amazing wordpress tooltip user’s feature request, to develop a wordpress tooltip pdf viewer addon:The amazing user asked a question:

Hi,How can I open a pdf document within a tooltip ?

This is the first time we heard this kind of question, we requested a few more details, the user replied:

Thank you for asking.Is not really an issue of the software, is a question. I just want to create a tooltip that opens this URL https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Goal-1.pdf

with a scroll within the tooltipThank you,

Our wordpress tooltip develope did a few research, and then we decide to develop a wordpress tooltip pdf viewer addon for the user:

Thanks for the message, in the current time, PDF reader is not a function in our wordpress tooltip plugin. 🙂Although we never said we support PDF viewer, but our developer have did a few research, and we will try to develop a new addon for the tooltips pro plus 🙂Thanks, have a blessed day with your family 🙂Best Regards, Support Team

Yes, it is worth to develop a new worpress tooltip pdf viewer addon, because we found in the current time, a few wordpress users embed pdf iframe in wordpress pages, a problem is, in general, pdf document is large, so it will used a lot of space in the screen, a better method is put pdf document in the tooltip popup box, so the wordpress article will keep clean but with many powerful tooltip to load these PDF, video, audio…etc, the amazing user is super smart! 🙂

How to Easily and Quickly Display the PDF in Tooltip Pop-up Box on the WordPress Page

1: Download tooltip from wordpress tooltips plugin site2: Login your wordpress site as admin and install the latest wordpress tooltips pro plus plugin3: Click tooltips menu item in the wordpress dashboard4: Click addons sub menu item to open addons panel, it looks like this:as you can see, at the bottom of the wordpress tooltip addon panel, there are Enable / Disable Tooltips PDF Viewer option, please just enable it6 Now it is time to write the first pdf tooltip term, please click tooltips menu item and click add new sub-menu item to create a new tooltip term7 In the tooltip editor, you will find in the right hand of tooltip editor, there are metabox “insert PDF viewer to tooltip”, it looks like this:In the “insert PDF viewer to tooltip” metabix, please enter the URL of the PDF in the PDF URL fieldThen please custom the PDF viewer height and viewer width in tooltip pop-up box, for example, height:400px, width:800px8 Now custom the tooltip pop-up box for this tooltip PDF viewer, at the bottom of this tooltip editor, you will find the metabox “Enable Customize Style”, please select the option yesThen in the tooltip box custom setting panel, please custom the tooltip pop-up box, for example, in the tooltip width option, enter :800It looks like this:After enter the tooltip title and tooltip content, please click publish to save the tooltip term9 Now create a wordpress post, insert the tooltip term in the wordpress post and mouse hover the tooltip term, now you can read PDF content in the pop-up window, it looks like this:

read PDF content in wordpress tooltip pop-up box

As you can see, when you mouse hover the tooltip term, PDF content be loaded in the tooltip pop-up window, in the PDF tooltip box, you can use browser PDF function to read PDF easily, for example, you can scroll down, scroll up, you can click search to find words in the PDF, you can click next page / last page buttons to read PDF content, you can click toggle sidebar to read PDF content faster, you can download the PDF, you can print the PDF, or rotate clockwise, hand tool, zoom, go to last page, vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling…etc. 🙂Please note, if you want to move into the tooltip pop-up box to scroll down the PDF document, you need go to tooltip style menu item and set “Tooltip hides when” option as “Stay Open a While”

Conclusion:

Based on a smart user’s feature request, wordpress tooltip developer developed a new addon for wordpress tooltips pro plus plugin — wordpress tooltip PDF viewer addon, with wordpress tooltip PDF viewer, wordpress author do not need to use a lot of rare space on the screen to embed PDF with iframe manually, wordpress editor can insert PDF in wordpress tooltip popup box just with a few clicks, and keep the wordpress pages clean and pretty 🙂