Thanks Malcolm! Your post does tell me that one route might be a plugin. I also figure that Django could send a signal of some sort to the browser.
So your post is helpful! -Warren ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <django-users@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 6:35 PM Subject: Re: Django app serves PDFs but browser doesn't render them > > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 18:02 -0700, queezy wrote: >> Hi All! >> >> We have a Django application that uses a form to allow users to select >> offices and it sends them off to a pdf. At the present time we are using >> FireFox on a Linux box and we are just using the Django loopback server >> for >> the time being. This means that we don't have a secondary, or even a >> primary instance of Apache working for us. >> >> So when you select an office and the pdf is served up you see binary >> codes >> dumped on your screen. > > That sounds like you haven't set the mimetype correctly. Firefox should > ask what application to use for anything it can't render natively. The > fact that you are seeing bytes sent to the screen suggests you are > sending it across with the HTML or some text-derivative mimetype so that > Firefox things it should display this directly. > >> By itself, if I fire up FireFox and go to the pdfs, I am prompted for >> what >> viewer to use, and choose postscript viewer and all is well. So the >> browser >> is capable of rendering pdfs properly. >> >> Any constructive comments on this? Any advice on getting the browser to >> actually render the pdfs? > > Browsers usually (I was going to say always, but I'm not sure what > native-PDF-underneath-MacOS does) hand off PDF rendering to a > third-party app. Sometimes that third-party app it is configured as a > browser plugin. > > I personally have no experience to share here because I prefer to use an > external app for PDF rendering, as my browser window is not the right > size for viewing generated-for-print-page documents, so I like being > able to resize them separately. > > Regards, > Malcolm > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
