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Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 2 October 2024 · last reported 28 January 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners report that PDFs embedded with this plugin sometimes appear as empty boxes on published pages, even when the file is public and hosted in the media library or on an outside URL.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.