Display a PDF on your TV

Open the PDF and choose the display

1. Visit Cast to Your TV and select or drop one PDF.
2. Wait while the browser reads the document and prepares the first page automatically.
3. Press Cast in desktop Chrome, then choose the Google Cast TV on the same Wi-Fi.
4. Use the PDF page controls to move through the document while keeping the browser open.

There is no separate document library or upload workflow. Selecting another file replaces the current selection. Press Cast for that new file to display it on an existing connection. Mobile connection steps are covered separately for Android and iPhone and iPad.

What is sent to the television?

The browser renders an individual PDF page into a PNG image. The original PDF is not uploaded to our cloud service or handed to the television as a downloadable document. Navigation prepares the requested page locally, and the viewer keeps a bounded cache of two rendered pages instead of rasterizing the whole document at once.

This is a page viewer rather than a remote PDF editor. Use it to show the visible document; do not expect television interaction with form fields, annotations, attachments or links. If you need to present a changing document, save the final version first and select that local file.

Keep text and diagrams readable

Each page is fitted within 3840 × 2160 pixels with its aspect ratio retained. The image can be reduced further when needed to meet the 8 MiB rendered-page budget. A portrait page on a widescreen television will have unused space beside it rather than being stretched.

Very dense pages can contain text too small to read from a sofa even when rendering succeeds. A landscape presentation with larger type will usually be more practical than a full printed report shown at once. Scanned PDFs also depend on the detail already present in the scan. The app cannot recover characters that are blurry in the source, and mirroring may reduce final TV sharpness further.

PDF limits and protected documents

Choose a PDF no larger than 100 MiB and no longer than 200 pages. Rendering must also stay within the browser’s image and memory safeguards. A complex page with many objects or an enormous embedded scan may fail even when the document’s compressed size is modest.

Password-protected PDFs need an unlocked copy that you are permitted to use. If a PDF cannot be decoded, try saving a fresh local copy from your document editor. For a very large report, exporting only the pages you intend to show can make preparation easier. Changing the filename extension does not repair a damaged document.

During the presentation

Move one page at a time and allow the new page to finish rendering before moving on again. If a previous page remains visible, check that the page control changed and that the browser is still connected. For a black screen, try the first page again or reconnect; if the TV is absent from the picker, see TV discovery help.

Keep the device awake, and keep the browser visible when using phone screen mirroring. iPhone needs an AirPlay-compatible display; a Cast-only television cannot receive that route. Media remains local, but the website, account features and playback verification still require network access. For single pictures rather than a document, use the photo and image flow.