Allow PDFs to be viewed in the browser

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 10/01/2014 11:33:50

Hi there,

I have an Ecommerce template with code like this:

<a href="/Files/Files/ProductSpecSheets/.pdf"><i class="fa fa-file-text"></i> Spec Sheet (PDF)</a>

However, when rendered in the browser the path is changed to:

<a href="/Admin/Public/DWSDownload.aspx?File=%2fFiles%2fFiles%2fProductSpecSheets%2fW4120.pdf"><i class="fa fa-file-text"></i> Spec Sheet (PDF)</a>

Note the inclusion of the DWSDownload.aspx file. This in turn forces the browser to show the Save As dialog for the PDF document.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening?

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 16/01/2014 12:03:24

Bump..... Any way to accomplish this?

Imar

Lars Sørensen

Posted on 16/01/2014 12:33:47

Store the PDFs in the Images folder instead. Doing so should force DwsDownload to open it instead of downloading it. At least, it used to be like that in the old days;-)

Br.

Lars

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 16/01/2014 13:54:28

You can change your link to this:

<a href="/Admin/Public/Download.aspx?File=/Files/Files/ProductSpecSheets/<!--@Ecom:Product.Number-->.pdf&download=false"

BR Nicolai

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 16/01/2014 14:10:02

Cool, thanks.

One more thing: how can I do that when generating a PDF using PDF=True? I tried adding it to the query string but I still get a Save As dialog....

Imar

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Allow PDFs to be viewed in the browser

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