Comments on: How to have a link that lets people download an acrobat file? http://acrobats.onlinelocalchat.net/2009/05/02/how-to-have-a-link-that-lets-people-download-an-acrobat-file/ Just another Online Local Chat weblog Sun, 20 May 2012 13:56:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tom H http://acrobats.onlinelocalchat.net/2009/05/02/how-to-have-a-link-that-lets-people-download-an-acrobat-file/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Tom H Wed, 06 May 2009 23:04:46 +0000 http://acrobats.onlinelocalchat.net/2009/05/02/how-to-have-a-link-that-lets-people-download-an-acrobat-file/#comment-134 If a file is in the PDF format it should automatically open in Acrobat Reader. Just upload the PDF file to your server and link your button to it. If a file is in the PDF format it should automatically open in Acrobat Reader. Just upload the PDF file to your server and link your button to it.

]]> By: HG Sieber http://acrobats.onlinelocalchat.net/2009/05/02/how-to-have-a-link-that-lets-people-download-an-acrobat-file/comment-page-1/#comment-133 HG Sieber Tue, 05 May 2009 19:36:12 +0000 http://acrobats.onlinelocalchat.net/2009/05/02/how-to-have-a-link-that-lets-people-download-an-acrobat-file/#comment-133 Test Open Download All you have to do is to embed it into a popup ;-) Edit: mhh seems like Internet Explorer ignores the MIME-Type supplied. Maybe you can somehow change the MIME-Type for a certain file on your Webserver. Please look it up in the corresponding manual. If you don't have access to the webserver itself, maybe there are other ways i don't know of. A quick and dirty way would probably to zip the pdf for download... Edit2: Yes, you need to upload the files to your webserver. If your putting the pdf-files in the same directory as your html-files reside, you can reference them by the filename (as shown above). In a sub-directory you can reference to them like this: Test

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All you have to do is to embed it into a popup ;-)
Edit: mhh seems like Internet Explorer ignores the MIME-Type supplied. Maybe you can somehow change the MIME-Type for a certain file on your Webserver. Please look it up in the corresponding manual. If you don’t have access to the webserver itself, maybe there are other ways i don’t know of.

A quick and dirty way would probably to zip the pdf for download…

Edit2: Yes, you need to upload the files to your webserver. If your putting the pdf-files in the same directory as your html-files reside, you can reference them by the filename (as shown above).
In a sub-directory you can reference to them like this:

]]> By: Constructive Visual http://acrobats.onlinelocalchat.net/2009/05/02/how-to-have-a-link-that-lets-people-download-an-acrobat-file/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Constructive Visual Mon, 04 May 2009 23:21:47 +0000 http://acrobats.onlinelocalchat.net/2009/05/02/how-to-have-a-link-that-lets-people-download-an-acrobat-file/#comment-132 Edit, Copy and then Paste this code where you would like the filename placed onto your website. The file must be in .pdf format already and what you need to do is specify where the folder is on your web server. name of file Edit, Copy and then Paste this code where you would like the filename placed onto your website.

The file must be in .pdf format already and what you need to do is specify where the folder is on your web server.

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