Re: Force Download PDF Problem

If, by some chance, you have entered an IIS->asp.net mapping for PDF
documents, delete it. The problem will go away. This happened to me
when I tried to add a mapping so as to allow for asp.net to control
security on PDF documents.

gaubo79 wrote:
> I am wishing to force the Open|Save dialog box for a PDF and Excel
> file.
>
> I am using the following code:
>
> Response.Clear();
> Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
> Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" +
> saveFilename );
> Response.Flush();
> Response.WriteFile(savePath);
>
> While this works perfect for the Excel file, however, the PDF file does
> not open, whether direct from the dialog box or by saving it to disk
> and opening it, I get the following error in Adobe Acrobat Reader (v5.0
> & v7.0):
>
> "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and
> could not be repaired."
>
> The original PDF file is okay. Also, the size of the original PDF is
> 50k, where as the one that is downloaded to the client is 237k.
>
> I have tried various other things such as creating a FileStream and
> using Response.BinaryWrite, and various other ContentTypes, including
> application/pdf.
>
> Has anyone had this before, or know of a workaround? Ideally I would
> like the dialog box to always appear for this pdf.

.

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