# PDF preview

**URL:** <https://forum.kinopio.club/t/pdf-preview/1906>\
**Category:** Feature Request\
**Created:** [November 6, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kinopio.club/t/pdf-preview/1906 "2026-11-06T18:13:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![FreezerburnV](https://forum.kinopio.club/user_avatar/forum.kinopio.club/freezerburnv/32/2907_2.png) [@FreezerburnV](https://forum.kinopio.club/u/FreezerburnV)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kinopio.club/t/pdf-preview/1906/1 "2026-11-06T18:13:08Z")

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Would love to be able to see PDF pages directly in Kinopio. I could see a couple different methods of this:

- Use PDF.js to render the PDF locally in the browser. Fastmail does this when you click on a PDF to view it, I think Obsidian uses it as well?
- Render PDF pages as images (probably on the server?) and make a custom UI to flip between pages or show all pages in a strip or something. Evernote does this (or at least I’m assuming they render on the server, maybe they do it client-side, who knows).

Being able to see multiple PDFs in a space can be very useful versus having to open them in new tabs with the browser’s native PDF rendering. Though of course this can be worked around manually by copying individual pages in a separate program and pasting those into Kinopio.