[Zope] Opening PDFs

Danni Efraim danni@galdrion.com
Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:15:14 +0200


Are your PDF-files stored as file objects in Zope?

In that case, you have to set the Content-Type to "application/pdf", either 
through the management interface or programmatically:

filename.manage_changeProperties(content_type="application/pdf")

I hope this helps.

/Danni

> Dear All
>
> Firstly, thank you to everyone who helped with my questions on table widths
> and css. The table width problem was solved when I found a table class
> definition in the css with width=100%. Removed this and all is happy. The
> css font issue is still an issue but I can live with it for now.
>
> On to a new question. Usually when a PDF is opened from a web site the
> Acrobat Reader opens in the browser. But when opening PDFs from our zope
> site a File Download box appears not once but twice and sometime three
> times and the Acrobat Reader is opened outside of the browser. The PDFs are
> added as files (not external files due to other issues). Can this behaviour
> be changed? I would like it so that if a PDF is clicked it is opened within
> the browser without the really annoying file download dialog boxes.
>
> thanks in advance
>
> tina
>
> MineStar
> Mincom Limited
> Brisbane, Australia
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