Embed a PDF Viewer in a webpage (FlashPaper?)

Hello,
I am a creative cloud member, primarily using Dreamweaver, Photoshop at the moment. My client would like to have a embedded PDF viewer similar to the on on this link: http://www.blurb.com/books/5607793-zunior-eats-hard-cover
(I've seen info about something called FlashPaper and understand that it's been discontinued.) My questions is does Creative Cloud offer something that could achieve this without a ton of coding? I've found a couple of options if not, but would love to use and promote the creative cloud suite.
Thanks.
JS

No. Why even bother? Safari, Chrome and Firefox have built-in PDF viewers and even Internet Explorer is getting one in v12 according to rumours and you can of course always install Reader/ Acrobat. You also seem to misunderstand something - that Blurb stuff is all based on web techniques using their proprietary APIs, not PDF.
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