AutoCAD's plot preview renders the plotted result on screen instead of
producing a file. The web build now does the same: the plotted PDF bytes
are rasterised with the hayro pipeline already used for PDF underlays
(150 DPI, first 12 pages) and shown in an in-page overlay with
Download-PDF and Close actions.
The previous strategy opened a new tab via window.open from the async
plot task; browsers withhold popups without a live user gesture, and
embedded hosts ship no PDF viewer plugin at all — so the fallback
download fired and preview behaved like an export. Plain PNG <img>
elements need neither permission.