Thanks Sctott,

That might explain some problems I have had in the past.
Occasionally someone complains about it not working, when they update to the
latest version of the Acorbat Reader, the code I have works fine.

Troy

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From: Scott Cadillac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:13 AM
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Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: PDF stored in db?


Great work Troy,

Something to add, that I discovered the hard way, is that some versions of
the Adobe Plug-in for PDF may not initialize properly because the plug-in
needs to know the size of the document before hand.

So you might want to add "Content-Length:" to the HTTP Response header,
something like:

<@ASSIGN NAME=ENCODERESULTS VALUE=FALSE SCOPE=LOCAL>
<@ASSIGN NAME=HttpHeader SCOPE=LOCAL VALUE="Content-type:
application/pdf<@CRLF>Content-Length: <@LENGTH STR='<@COLUMN
<@DQ>articles.art_blob<@DQ>
ENCODING=NONE>'><@CRLF><@SETCOOKIES><@CRLF>"><@COLUMN "articles.art_blob"
ENCODING=NONE>

Of course it might be more efficent to capture the <@LENGTH> on the upload
and store it a separate field next to the PDF content.

Hope this helps. Cheers....

Scott Cadillac,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Sosamon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: PDF stored in db?
>
>
> Here is the trickey part that you need.
> Use a javascrip and open a new window and call a search
> action that returns
> a blob and use this code:
>
> <@EXCLUDE>
> <@ASSIGN NAME=ENCODERESULTS VALUE=FALSE SCOPE=LOCAL>
> <@ASSIGN NAME=HttpHeader SCOPE=LOCAL
>    VALUE="Content-type: application/pdf<@CRLF><@SETCOOKIES><@CRLF>">
> </@EXCLUDE><@COLUMN "articles.art_blob" ENCODING=NONE>
>
>
> <@comment>other content types-- VALUE="Content-type:
> image/jpeg, text/html
> </@comment>
>
>
> Troy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Sosamon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:32 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: PDF stored in db?
>
>
> I have done it using R:tango, IIS5 and W2k.  R:tango is
> Tango2000 and an
> R:base database.
>
> I am not sure about how your DB handles the blobs, but to
> load the files, I
> upload the the file to a temp file on the server and then do
> a directdbms
> command to put the file into the database.
> Pulling the pdf out if you write it to a temp file on the
> server and link to
> that file it is very easy.
> It is a little trickier, but can be done where you pull the
> file and send it
> directly to the browser w/o needing to put it in a file on the server.
>
> Troy Sosamon
> Denver, Co.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilcox, Jamileh (HSC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:08 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Witango-Talk: PDF stored in db?
>
>
> Tango2000, W2K server, IIS5, SQL2K
>
> I'm building an application to search and display lots of PDF
> files.  My
> preference would be to store the files in the database,
> rather than try
> to organize and keep track of all the separate files.  Does
> anyone know
> if this method will work with PDF files?  If so, has anyone done a
> similar app?  I'm having problems getting the files loaded &
> displayed -
> I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong, or if it's just not going to work.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> jamileh
>
>
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