On Friday, 04/10/2009 at 12:12 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" <[email protected]> wrote: > What does it take to get a PDF from a CMS file to a successful browser display? > We are, for now, using WEBSHARE. We get a message telling us that the file does > not start with "%PDF-"; however, all files I have tried do begin with those > ASCII characters. We have tried files created by TXT2PDF and ones created by > other PDF creators. All display properly when copied to a PC and opened > directly with Adobe Reader. > > I have tried various settings, including removing the entry for pdf, in the web > server's CONFIG file, all to no avail. > > Note: MS Office files, DOC, XLS and PPT, all work and the PC's default for the > PDF extension is Acrobat Reader 8.
I would guess that something needs to tell WEBSHARE that PDF files are binary (it appears to be correctly setting the MIME type to application/pdf). Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
