For some reason the iPad safari browser does not handle embedded PDFs well. PDFs view fine on their own when launched standalone, but not with the object tag. The problem is t
Hopefully this can help others in the future. I used google's pdf viewer to be able to scroll a pdf in an iframe. So on the src tag the url is
https://docs.google.com/gview?url=’ + ‘insert link to PDF’ + embedded=true