Opening a PDF

[jacsdad]

I am using Microsoft FrontPage 2003/SP3 and have not been able to figure out
how, when a link to a PDF is clicked, it should display the File Download
Panel (do you want to Open or Save this file). When clicked, it opens the
PDF.

This works great with all other documents, just not PDF’s.

Any help will be appreciated.

Tj casey

 

[Dennis]

I am using Microsoft FrontPage 2003/SP3 and have not been able to figure out
how, when a link to a PDF is clicked, it should display the File Download
Panel (do you want to Open or Save this file). When clicked, it opens the
PDF.

This works great with all other documents, just not PDF’s.

Any help will be appreciated.

The left-click behavior, I believe, is at the mercy of the client
PC/browser setup. And most client PCs are configured to open a .pdf in
Acrobat Reader or some other PDF viewer. If you are doing this on your
website and you want every visitor who left-clicks on the link to be
presented with the File Download panel, I think you are out of luck. Of
course, you do something like package the PDF as a .zip file.

If you have control over the web server configuration, I suppose you
could muck with the mime-type that gets sent with .pdf files, but this
is probably not an option.

 

[jacsdad]

Dennis... thnks for the response.
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jacsdad

The left-click behavior, I believe, is at the mercy of the client
PC/browser setup. And most client PCs are configured to open a .pdf in
Acrobat Reader or some other PDF viewer. If you are doing this on your
website and you want every visitor who left-clicks on the link to be
presented with the File Download panel, I think you are out of luck. Of
course, you do something like package the PDF as a .zip file.

If you have control over the web server configuration, I suppose you
could muck with the mime-type that gets sent with .pdf files, but this
is probably not an option.