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Re: [cobalt-users] Force download on PDF



At 11:05 AM 22/05/03 -0500, you wrote:
At 10:48 AM 5/22/2003, you wrote:
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> IMHO its a user problem not a server problem.

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.

Our solution was to put an instruction on the page linking to the pdf such as: "if you want to save these PDF documents to your local pc, please right click the link and choose save as..."

Of course once the pdf opens in Acrobat Reader, the user can save it locally with the save button too.

- Bill B.



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