Is there any way to embed a pdf file into an html5 page?

Question

I want to have a web page coded with HTML5, and I want to be able to put a pdf file onto this page so you can view it without having to click on any links to download it separately. Anyone know how to do this? I want it to keep the text, images, and layout of the pdf file also. If that weren't the case I would just use an image. Thanks!

Edit: This will be hopefully going onto the ipad. So it won't support adobe. I need to just find a way to somehow make the pdf file show up in an html5 page without using a viewer. I want to keep all of its layers. It doesn't have to stay a pdf file when its on the page, I just need to find a way to transfer all of those layers there without having to do this manually with divs for each image, paragraph, etc.

Answer 1

This link may be of use to you.

Answer 2

If you are using ASP.NET, this link may be of interest to you.

Browser Based PDF Viewing And Editing Hosted entirely on your server, activePDF Portal is an ASP.NET WebControl that enables your users to interactively view and modify PDF documents from any source - adding comments, form fields, bookmarks, and more – directly from within a standard web browser, without requiring any client-side software such as Adobe Reader or Flash, or the use of ActiveX controls. - http://portal.activepdf.com/

Answer 3

I don't think this is possible without using Flash. Instead, you might want to convert the PDF to a different format (HTML for example) that can be rendered by the browser. There are tools that can do this from the command line, so making a script to do it on your site won't be too difficult.