Fw: [Zope] pdf files dont work ??

[David Burton]

My guess is that this is likely to be an Acrobat Reader issue.

My company recently had problems with this kind of thing happening, and it
only happened on some machines. The solution was to download the latest
version of the Acrobat Reader and install that, and this fixed the problem.
This was with files served from a CGI application, but nothing to do with
ZOPE.

HTH,
David Burton,
(david@emotion.co.uk)

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From: "zope-mailinglist" <zope-mailinglist@mopa.at>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] pdf files dont work ??


> Kyler B. Laird wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:55:10 +0200 you wrote:
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >>is it possible, that the files are too big or corrupted ??
> >>
> >
> >Download to a file and check.
> >
> >>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
>  ??
>
>
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