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I am developing a website on local area network for that i need to display the documents in a viewer, can i use HTML5 canvas as document viewer e.g. (xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf) etc, it there any library or jQuery library to make offline document viewer.

Farrukh Ayyaz
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Canvas is not useful in reading Microsoft Office files.

Microsoft has viewers for each of its Office components:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/search.aspx?q=viewer

And you can just link to .pdf's as long as users have Adobe Acrobat installed:

<a href="readme.pdf">Read PDF</a>
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