Owen, Sounds like you have a corrupted installation on the Acrobat plug-in in IE or maybe you need to set the header of the page using CFHEADER. Does this happen on just your PC or other peoples PCs as well?
I'm on IE5.5 here and (annoyingly) wind up opening PDFs quite in my browser if I'm not concentrating. Regards Stephen PS. This was posted up on the UK CFDev email list in response to another CFCONTENT question. It might be useful to you too... http://www.figleaf.com/demo/mimetest/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen Munton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:55 PM Subject: RE: cfcontent, pdf, and internet explorer problems > Actually, I meant to say that "it does NOT open the > acrobat reader" in IE. > > Thanks, > > Owen > --- James Taavon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, in my experience I have never found a way > > around what you are > > observing. IE seems to launch apps like Excel, Word > > and even PDF files > > within the browser environment. I think there may be > > a way to shut off this > > feature in settings, but it needs to happen on the > > client side. I don't > > think there is a way to set it from the server-side, > > but I could be wrong. > > Your only other option would be to launch the PDF in > > a pop-up window. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Owen Munton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:31 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: cfcontent, pdf, and internet explorer > > problems > > > > > > I have a line of code using cfcontent to download a > > pdf file that works just fine in Netscape, but in > > IE, > > it does open acrobat reader, it attempts to display > > it > > in the browser. The output starts like this: > > %PDF-1.2 %���� 1 0 obj<> etc etc etc...... > > > > Here is my line of code: > > <CFCONTENT TYPE="application/pdf" > > FILE="c:\pdf\#pdf_id#.pdf" reset="yes"> > > > > any thoughts, anyone?? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
