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hi there, I just tested it on iPadOS 14 - issue remains: Mobile safari started rendering embedded PDFs as images. This is problematic both when viewing and printing: when viewing, only the first page of the PDF is displayed when printing, the picture gets printed, leading to incomplete and blurred printing In both cases the user does not understand the problem is on mobile safari and either does not see/ print the remaining pages or complains about broken PDFs. The only workaround currently known to me is to provide a download-link that will show the PDF as full page (no embedding). This way the PDF is rendered with multiple pages and printed correctly. The problem with this workaround is: if the user places the webapplication on the home screen (so it is opened in fullscreen), downloading the PDF as described in the workaround puts the user in a navigation dead-end, as he will not be able to navigate back. This is an awful situation. The platform is powerful enough to simply embed PDFs in the page. Safari is obviously capable of handling PDFs, as shown with the workaround. Please fix this. Or do not show PDFs embedded at all, at least user will direct its complaints at Apple and not to us web developers.