Re: PHP Opening a PDF

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

you could have the user click a button in the browser, which runs
javascript, which downloads the PDF into an array buffer in the javascript
code.  From there maybe run adobe javascript scripting code to view the PDF
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS778US780&sxsrf=ACYBGNS9btJiqK8TJOVZV_Db1UtRv5T82Q:1568774431209&q=acrobat+javascript+scripting+guide+2017&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLutGVrNnkAhUMhOAKHeQKBxYQ1QIoBHoECAsQBQ&biw=1534&bih=706


On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:16 PM Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We are running PHP on IBM i
>
> I have added the ability to download/open some documents like statements
> as a PDF which works nicely. (We generate the PDF in the IFS with a random
> name and then pass the name back to the PHP script.
>
> I am having a problem with controlling how the pdf is to be opened.
>
> I have found that there seems to be two options on the header statement;
>
> header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"$fileName\";" );
>
> or
>
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$fileName\";" );
>
> Using "inline" opens the pdf in the current browser page and the user has
> to click the browsers back button to return to the page where the pdf was
> requested from.
>
> Using "attachment" displays a prompt defaulting to download for the user
> to save the pdf
>
> What I was wanting to achieve is to have the pdf open in Adobe reader on
> the requesting device and if the user wanted to save it then could use the
> File ==> Save as option.
>
> Looking for any suggestions or links to more information on how I can
> control this ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Don Brown
>
>
>
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