>From my experience, the "Content-Disposition" header works when you are saving >directly to disk. If you open it in a reader first, then it is up to that >reader how it saves. Based on the info presented, he is probably running in >an Apache environment, so I am not sure how what I am about to suggest >applies. I run in a controlled Windows (IIS, IE, etc...) environment and we >use Adobe Reader. Reader uses the end of the URL as the default name of the >file. The way I resolved this was to set up a HTTP handler such that it >intercepts anything with something like "http://server/printable/"; in the URL. > You could then set the URL to be >"http://server/printable/filenameiwant.ashx";. When you hit the save-as button >in Reader, it would then auto-fill the file name with "filenameiwant".
So I would recommend Googling "Apache http handler". ;) I hope this helps! Thanks, Brian -----Original Message----- Message: 9 Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:49:21 +0200 From: 1T3XT info <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] How to set the pdf's name dynamically when using servlet To: Post all your questions about iText here <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Zhu, Yunpu wrote: > I wanna decide pdf's name dynamically when I generate the pdf file using > a servlet and Jsp. The pdf is shown in browser. When I click save as, > the pop-up name is different during the different scenario. That's not an iText question. The name of the file is defined in the HTTP header (Google for "Content-Disposition"). -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
