Don't want to right click on a PDF link to save it!!!!

[barry22]

Hi can any one help me to download a .pdf file with out doing save as but just
to click on it and it will automatically go to the Save dialog box!!! I have a
view document option and a download option on my page and it will be completely
useless if they can just in the view option go and save the document so I want
them to be able to download it whit out viewing it first!

[robhuddles]

Unfortunately, this just isn't supported by the browsers. If they have the
Adobe Reader installed, a PDF will open directly. The only way to force a
download is to give it an extension that doesn't have an associated browser
plug-in, such as .zip, but then they have to go through the extra step of
unzipping the file.

I have long felt that HTML needs an attribute on the anchor tag to control
this behavior - something like <a href="foo.pdf" forcedownload="true">, but
alas, this doesn't exist.

Rob Huddleston
Adobe Certified Dreamweaver 8 Developer

[Murray *ACE*]

This can be forced server-side, you know?

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"robhuddles" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:eiaf3r$mme$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Unfortunately, this just isn't supported by the browsers. If they have the
> Adobe Reader installed, a PDF will open directly. The only way to force a
> download is to give it an extension that doesn't have an associated
> browser
> plug-in, such as .zip, but then they have to go through the extra step of
> unzipping the file.
>
> I have long felt that HTML needs an attribute on the anchor tag to control
> this behavior - something like <a href="foo.pdf" forcedownload="true">,
> but
> alas, this doesn't exist.
>
> Rob Huddleston
> Adobe Certified Dreamweaver 8 Developer
>

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(robhuddles)

>Unfortunately, this just isn't supported by the browsers. If they have the
>Adobe Reader installed

.... and the plugin activated ...

>a PDF will open directly. The only way to force a
>download is to give it an extension that doesn't have an associated browser
>plug-in, such as .zip, but then they have to go through the extra step of
>unzipping the file.

You could also try to deliver the file as application/octet-stream,
which should cause a download dialog.

> I have long felt that HTML needs an attribute on the anchor tag to control
>this behavior - something like <a href="foo.pdf" forcedownload="true">, but
>alas, this doesn't exist.

Thankfully. It would take away too much control from the user. It's not
the author who has to decide what to do with a downloaded document. You
can't force anything in the web - and that's a good thing.

Micha