Re: Force Download PDF Problem



Joey,

I certainly haven't entered one, is there anyway it could be there by
default?

I had a look through IIS manager, but couldn't find anything, where
would it be if it was in place?

Thanks

Joey wrote:

> 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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