How do I get my website to open up a pdf outside of a visitors web browser?

[JAFL]

I have a website with a link to a pdf. Currently, when a visitor clicks on the link, it opens the pdf inside the web browswer. I would like the the link instead to launch acrobat and open the pdf outside of their web browser.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[andy faith]

I'm not sure you can. It's acrobat reader that opens it inside your browser as a kind of a plug-in for it, so I'm not sure if you can get it to open in the seperate window.

 

[JAFL]

I'm not sure you can. It's acrobat reader that opens it inside your browser as a kind of a plug-in for it, so I'm not sure if you can get it to open in the seperate window.

I'm trying to force a download. I've seen it done. And I've read that there's an html script to do it. I just don't know what the script is or where to place it in the code.

 

[apj101]

it cant be done in HTML, you have to do it through a php script

eg
here is the php script lets call in plop.php

<?
$file = $_GET['file'];
header ("Content-type: octet/stream");
header ("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=".$file.";");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
readfile($file);
exit;
?>

and then you call it by
<a href="plop.php?file=picture.jpg">Download JPG image</a>

 

[JAFL]

it cant be done in HTML, you have to do it through a php script

eg
here is the php script lets call in plop.php

<?
$file = $_GET['file'];
header ("Content-type: octet/stream");
header ("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=".$file.";");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
readfile($file);
exit;
?>

and then you call it by
<a href="plop.php?file=picture.jpg">Download JPG image</a>

Ok, considering i'm a complete novice at this, where would I place this? I have dreamweaver, can I place it within the body of the code in dreamweaver?

 

[apj101]

Ok, considering i'm a complete novice at this, where would I place this? I have dreamweaver, can I place it within the body of the code in dreamweaver?

no, you put the php code in a text file, save it as plop.php then upload that to your web server and place the html code on any web page you want a download from
be sure to adjust the path of the href to match where you put the php file, and the path of the picture/pdf/other to match its location

 

[JAFL]

no, you put the php code in a text file, save it as plop.php then upload that to your web server and place the html code on any web page you want a download from
be sure to adjust the path of the href to match where you put the php file, and the path of the picture/pdf/other to match its location

Sorry to be a pain in ass, but most of that was way over my head.

I understand everything through uploading it to my web server. After that....

How do I place html code on any web page? (and what html code are you referring to?).

How do I adjust the path of the href (what is the href?)

 

[Cromewell]

Your webserver needs to support php for this to work.

The code you put on your html is like this:

<a href="plop.php?file=picture.jpg">Download JPG image</a>

Say you wanted to open a file called newwindow.pdf. You could put html on your page like this: <a href="plop.php?file=newwindow.pdf">New Window PDF</a>

 

[JAFL]

Your webserver needs to support php for this to work.

The code you put on your html is like this:

Say you wanted to open a file called newwindow.pdf. You could put html on your page like this: <a href="plop.php?file=newwindow.pdf">New Window PDF</a>

Is there a way to code this in such a way so that someone can just click on my logo or other image? I tried a code similar to this someone gave me, but it just created text on my index page. Problem is, I don't want text, I just want an image to link it.

 

[Cromewell]

Just replace the text with an image instead.
<a href="plop.php?file=newwindow.pdf"><img border=0 src="imagelink.jpg"></a>

 

[JAFL]

Just replace the text with an image instead.
<a href="plop.php?file=newwindow.pdf"><img border=0 src="imagelink.jpg"></a>

I must be doing something wrong, because no matter which one (text or image) I place in the code, it just displaces one of my slices. I must have placed the code in the wrong place.

How do I know 'where' to place the code so that none of my existing slices are displaced?

 

[Cromewell]

Can you post a link to your page? I'd like to see what's going on.