Does a module that displays embedded pdf files exist?

is this ok ?

https://xoops.org/modules/repository/singlefile.php?cid=95&lid=1432

Cheers, but that link is not working at the moment.

Apparently smartsection does it - but I can't get it to upload pdf files because it says it does not support mime type.

You need to locate the 'Acrobat Portable Document Format' mimetype in 'Mimetypes' in SmartSection admin and put a tick the column(s) to give upload permission for users and/or admin. You can then attach a PDF to an article, although AFAIK the default behaviour is for the PDF to download, not open in the browser.

SmartSection (and 'News') can 'make' a PDF using the text and images from an article, which does open in the browser.

If your site visitors are going to be opening PDFs in their browser directly from a list of articles on your site, I suggest that you warn them. There's no 'escape' from the blasted Acrobat plugin once it starts to open a file. It's really annoying if you were expecting a web page.

smartsection will add pdf file as attachment but this tweaked version of wfsection will dispay pdf inside article page.