Re: [cobalt-users] Force download on PDF

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:48 AM 5/22/2003, you wrote:
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> > IMHO its a user problem not a server problem.
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> You are correct. The Acrobat Reader has a setting in the config options to
> "view PDF in browser" which is checked by default.


This varies based on the version of Acrobat Reader.  I have a Win2K box 
with apache on it.  I upgraded it from 1.xx to 2.xx and only people with AR 
3 or 5 could get pdf documents to open in the browser.  AR 4 got 
trash.  All three could download them and then open them.  They were all 
working correctly on apache 1.xx.  I did some research and could not find 
an answer.  BUT, what I could find is that people have been having this 
problem for several years off and on.  I contacted several people and found 
that none of them ever came up with an answer.   I tried changing the way I 
uploaded the file, I transferred it across the network, etc and ended up 
going back to apache 1.xx.  I no longer host the site I had with all the 
pdf documents on it and my go back to apache 2.xx at some time.



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