I'm trying to download a pdf file using a link in react and when clicking on the link the pdf is opening in the browser instead of download.
I have enabled a setting in the browser to download the pdf and that works but is there any way where we can do in the code without manually changing the browser setting?
I have tried this,
<a style={{textDecoration : "none"}}download href={url}>YES</a>
but in this also i have to enable the setting manually in the browser.
It is working fine for all the other file types execpt pdf which is opening instead of downloading.
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I have an hyperlink to a pdf form that can not be opened by the browser's pdf viewer. If clicked, the browser tries to show it but I get the error message like "it is necessary Acrobat Reader 8.x" etc. Is there a way to force an hyperlink to such pdf form file to only allow its downloading? In this way, the user could open it with his local Adobe Reader.
Let’s say you have a PDF that you want to let people download. The file will be like this:
Download Receipt
In most browsers, clicking on the link will open the file directly in the browser.
But, if you add the download attribute to the link, it will tell the browser to download the file instead.
<a href="/path/to/your/receipt.pdf" download>Download Receipt</a>
The download attribute works in all modern browsers, including MS Edge, but not Internet Explorer.
In the latest versions of Chrome, you cannot download cross-origin files (they have to be hosted on the same domain).
To make the hyperlink to download the pdf file when clicked, you should use download property inside the anchor tag. For example you can see the code below:
Download the pdf file
You can also give your own name to the downloadable pdf file in the download property that I provided as 'Document' in the code above.
Yes, it is possible. First download the file and then you'll see a link when it downloaded(it disappears quite quickly) just copy it and use:
hyperlink
When using the Microsoft Edge browser, by default when you open a PDF it will open the PDF in a new tab using the built-in PDF viewer. To avoid this, you can adjust the browser's settings: Toggle on the "Always open PDF files externally" option. This works great. However, it presents a separate issue. Our internal applications use embedded PDFs in iframes. When the external toggle is set to on, these PDFs will not show in the iframes. This doesn't happen in Chrome. Has anyone else experienced this and know a work around?
I've tried removing the type="application/pdf" from the iframe tag to no avail. I can't find anything else online.
It looks like an expected result because you have enabled the option Always open PDF files externally.
So MS Edge browser is giving you an option to download the PDF file and open it using the desired app.
You said this doesn't happen in Chrome browser.
If you enabled the Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome option then you will notice the same result in the Chrome browser.
Output in the Chrome browser:
If you click on the Open button then it will download the PDF file.
I did not get any solution or a workaround for this issue.
If you think that there should be an option to load the file in an iframe if Always open PDF files externally option is enabled then I suggest you click on the Send Feedback button in the MS Edge browser and try to provide your feedback about it to the Microsoft.
I posted feedback suggesting that an exclusion/inclusion list be in included but the simplest way would be to treat the frame as part of the session. But this is not Microsoft it is the Chrome projects issue.
We have an app which launches Electron browser. In the Electron browser we load a third party website which has a link.
When we view this site in the Chrome or IE browsers, clicking on this link it renders a PDF in an iFrame but for electron browser it shows a save file dialogue. We want to display this PDF in the electron browser just the same way it works for Chrome and IE. As it is a third party website we don't have control over rendering or loading PDF file or we are not getting any events related with loading of this PDF.
For this scenario, if there is no way to display PDF in electron then it is OK to block it so the Save file dialogue will not show.(This app is actually in the KIOSK so we don't want to save a file if it doesn't render in browser.)
Thanks in advance for your comments!
Here is a discussion on an issue almost identical to yours. The answer does a decent job explaining why the download option is appearing. As for preventing the pdf from being downloaded, try using the <embed> tag as it detects compatibility. So embed the pdf using that tag and then load the html into the <iframe>. Here is some example code and description of how to set that up.
When I click on a link in a page, a PDF opens. I need to validate the contents of this PDF file using Selenium in C#.
I'm able to handle this in Firefox 25(using pdf.js). In firefox, the contents of this pdf are displayed in html and hence, using isTextPresent, I am able to validate if the pdf contents are correct.
But, though Chrome opens the pdf in my browser, it does not show the pdf contents as separate elements. Is there any plugin/ setting change that can be done for me to view the pdf as html in Chrome browsewr
PDF.js is also available for Chrome - see PDF Viewer in the Chrome Web Store.
I suggest to load the PDF using the following URL: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/content/web/viewer.html?file=<URL-encoded version of PDF file's location>.
The reason for explicitly putting the URL as shown before is that if the PDF url is visited before the extension is loaded, then the default PDF behavior is triggered (in Chromium, the file is downloaded, in Chrome, it's displayed using Chrome's built-in PDF Viewer).
After the PDF.js is loaded, you can directly type the URL for a PDF file in the omnibox, the extension automatically detects PDF files and renders the result (based on MIME-type).
I'm trying to link a pdf document from a static html file.
What I'm using is:
My pdf File
the open/save dialog comes up in firefox but not in IE7 or IE8.
I believe I have to change the MIME type but I don't know where to change it...
Since it works in Firefox I assume the file is actually there and accessible. In that case it depends on the browser settings how the download is handled. It might be that the download happens in the background because you setup that it should automatically download everything into a predefined folder (e.g. My Downloads/).
Check the IE settings to see where it puts downloads and check the folder to see if downloaded the file.