Vaporware

[brandonros]

Nothing more frustrating than spending a day trying to drop packages into your project that are supposed to be plug and play and they don't work so you start spiraling down a list of alternatives trying anything hoping something will work, only to still be bombing out on your fourth attempt.

pdf.js:17939 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'firstElementChild' of null
    at new PDFViewer (pdf.js:17939)
    at pdf.js:12985
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at Object._initializeViewerComponents (pdf.js:12973)
    at pdf.js:12884
    at <anonymous>

Template: <pdfjs-viewer data="ctrl.pdfData"></pdfjs-viewer>

Controller: ctrl.pdfData = new Uint8Array(UtilitiesService.generatePdfTable(categoryColumns, results, pdfTableOptions, pdfFilename, 'data'));

Total garbage. Not sure if it is your package or pdf.js but Jesus Christ is this frustrating.

[brandonros]

Mild progress as I continue to have to dump time into this "plug and play" package:

function PDFViewer(options) {
  this.container = options.container;
  this.viewer = options.viewer || options.container.firstElementChild;

var container = appConfig.mainContainer;
   var viewer = appConfig.viewerContainer;
   self.pdfViewer = new PDFViewer({
    container: container,

legalthings/pdf.js-viewer#23

[DiV666]

Hi,

This happens because the DOM is not ready when the window.PDFJS.webViewerLoad() function is called;

To make a quick fix, I've wrapped that function and everything that follows in a $timeout:

$timeout(function () {
    window.PDFJS.webViewerLoad();

    function onPdfInit() {
        ...
}, 0);

[psyklopz]

I also am unable to figure out a solution and need to move on to another project. It's a shame, this looked like the best fit. I'm eagerly awaiting a fix for this, and I'll be switching back when that's available.