Re: Acrobat pdf download

Yet one more option to consider here...

You have the standard link to the PDF file. If the enduser has Adobe Acrobat
installed and this program is "integrated" with the operating system (MSIE)
or included as a helper application (Netscape), the file will load in their
browser. To allow for them to just click and save, simply ZIP the PDFs up,
and link to the ZIP files instead. This produces the need to decompress the
files once they've been downloaded, but they won't open by default in the
browser.

Kehvan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Smith" <jay(at)JaySmith.com>
To: "Trevor Lockwood" <trevor(at)author.co.uk>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2001 13:49
Subject: Re: Acrobat pdf download


> Trevor,
>
> Depending upon the browser, the user can either SHIFT CLICK or RIGHT
> CLICK the link to do a .... SaveAs or SaveTargetAs...  The actual menu
> and dialog text varies from browser to browser.
>
> I don't know any other way to do this than to tell the user exactly
> what they have to do... This is what I did...
> http://www.jaysmith.com/lists/lit/lit_list_download.html
>
> Another option is to have an FTP site if your service provider has an
> FTP server available.  Most ISPs don't allow public FTP access on
> their HTTP machines due to security problems, thus they set up a
> seperate physical machine.
>
> Jay
>
>
> Trevor Lockwood wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Minor panic here. My New Year brain can't remember how to link to an
Acrobat
> > pdf file to enable web page visitors to download, and save, the file to
> > their own computers.
> >
> > A straight html link opens up Reader, but you can't save from there.
> >
> > Any ideas? I know it can be done but...
> >
> > Trevor Lockwood
>
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