Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:29 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Nigel Henry >> <cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: >> >>> I was trying to read an online tool catalogue, and noticed a PDF button at >>> the >>> bottom of the webpage. Clicked on it, and it opened the dialog box to >>> download. What has been downloaded though is a .php script (27.3MB). >>> >>> The properties shows that it contains a pdf document, but I've no idea how >>> to >>> run it, open it, or whatever needs to be done, to get to see the PDF. >>> >>> Any suggestions folks. >>> > > >> Try to rename it: >> mv FILE_NAME.php FILE_NAME.pdf >> and open it with Evince >> Athmane Madjoudj >> > > No need to rename it, just run > $ evince FILE_NAME.php > > Of course > $ file FILE_NAME.php > will always give you a reasonable guess about what the file format > really is. > > jon > > > What you may have is a PHP page that contains a link to, or an embedded, PDF document.
Open the file with a text editor and see if you get PHP code. If you do, then just extract the PDF or the link. If you can't read it, you may just have a PDF file with the wrong extension and just have to rename it. If the renamed file does not open with a PDF reader, you probably have a compiled PHP file (used to secure PHP pages as it purportedly prevents people from pilfering PHP products <deep breath>). In this case you will have to view the file in a browser and hope it doesn't contain anything malicious. Do it as an unprivileged user to be safe. Cheers, -- Paul
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