Are you running Apache or a proxy in front of Zope? It might be a "byte-serving" issue. For example, byte-serving (serving between byte offsets, or a page-at-a-time to acrobat reader) is implemented by Apache > 1.3.9 (I think), but is broken in 1.3.14, and fixed by 1.3.19... Anyway, I've seen this kind of problem before... Sean -----Original Message----- From: zope-mailinglist [mailto:zope-mailinglist@mopa.at] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 5:57 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] pdf files dont work ?? Kyler B. Laird wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:55:10 +0200 you wrote:

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the browser loads something but it doesnt start acrobat reader, it displays an empty window i set the content_type to "application/pdf"

I have not experienced this. I suggest trying the same URL with a simple client (lynx/GET) so that you can get the data to a file for examination.

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i read somewhere that the id has to end with .pdf - so that acrobat checks the file - but this wasnt the problem

This I have experienced. The problem is that the dumb clients aren't configured correctly. The behavior is different, though. The client should pop up a warning saying it doesn't know what to do with application/pdf.

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is it possible, that the files are too big or corrupted ??

Download to a file and check.

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would it be better to store such files in the filesystem instead in zodb ??

I have handled large PDF files from the ZODB. They should be no different than any other static content (unless you're trying to use byte-range serving).

--kyler

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i downloaded the pdfs to a file - it works this way it seems that its an adobe acrobat issue ?? _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )