Load a minimal PDF stub from a string

Q: How can I load a minimal PDF stub from a string?

A: You can use the basic set of information needed by PSPDFKit for Web to render a document. Some of the examples from this StackOverflow thread do indeed work. Here’s one of them, converted to an array buffer passed in PSPDFKit.Configuration#pdf that can be consumed and rendered by our API:

const PDFstub = `%PDF-1.0
1 0 obj<</Type/Catalog/Pages 2 0 R>>endobj 2 0 obj<</Type/Pages/Kids[3 0 R]/Count 1>>endobj 3 0 obj<</Type/Page/MediaBox[0 0 750 1000]>>endobj
xref
0 4
0000000000 65535 f
0000000010 00000 n
0000000053 00000 n
0000000102 00000 n
trailer<</Size 4/Root 1 0 R>>
startxref
149
%EOF`;
// TextEncoder() needs to be polyfilled in IE11, see
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextEncoder
const uint8array = new TextEncoder().encode(PDFstub);
PSPDFKit.load({
  ...defaultConfiguration,
  document: uint8array.buffer
});

This has been tested with PSPDFKit for Web 2019.4.1

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