Hi I have a large pdf file that if I create an anchor link to, the
browser will try to open the file, which takes quite a long time. Is
there a way to force the browser to download the file rather than try
to open it?
Thankss
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ron1972 wrote: Hi I have a large pdf file that if I create an anchor link to, the
browser will try to open the file, which takes quite a long time. Is
there a way to force the browser to download the file rather than try
to open it?
If the user's browser is configured to open the file by default, there's
nothing you can do about it. That's as it should be. After all, if it's
too large to open, why should the decision be up to you that it *isn't*
too large for the user to want to download at all?
The courteous approach is to annotate the link with the size of the
document. If you want to be extra helpful, you can suggest that the file
is really large and the user may want to download it instead--for
example, by choosing "Download this link" or a similar command from the
context menu available on some installations (a.k.a. "right-clicking",
but that isn't available to all web users).
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browser will try to open the file, which takes quite a long time. Is
there a way to force the browser to download the file rather than try
to open it?
If there is, it in your browser, not html. Consult your
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ron1972 wrote: Hi I have a large pdf file that if I create an anchor link to, the
browser will try to open the file, which takes quite a long time. Is
there a way to force the browser to download the file rather than try
to open it?
The only surefire way would be to put it into a .zip file and link to
that instead.
Browsers are configured differently, depending on installed software,
installation standard settings and user preferences, and will handle
certain file types differently. Personally, I use Opera as my standard
browser, which is set to download everything that isn't presented as
HTML/XML, images, plugins or Java (the display of the latter two also
depends on my browser settings at the time, I usually leave them
disabled unless I really need them).
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ron1972 wrote: Hi I have a large pdf file that if I create an anchor link to, the
browser will try to open the file, which takes quite a long time. Is
there a way to force the browser to download the file rather than try
to open it?
Firefox users may choose to install the PDF Download extension which
allows them to easily decide for themselves. https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...firefox&id=636
Other browsers may have similar options/extensions available to them, or
at least the ability to choose Save Link As... (or equivalent).
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Kim André Akerĝ wrote: The only surefire way would be to put it into a .zip file and link to
that instead.
Nope. One of my browsers opens .zip files in a viewer.
Alan J. Flavell wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Kim André Akerĝ wrote:
The only surefire way would be to put it into a .zip file and link to
that instead.
Nope. One of my browsers opens .zip files in a viewer.
No offense intended, but if you have a browser that opens zips as a text
file instead of downloading them, then something is either horribly
miscponfigured, or if it's stock, it's probably either out of date, or
probably one no one used... I can't imagine such a broken browser ever
being popular, and yes, any graphical browser that doesn't know how to
treat such as well known binary (even just by ".zip" extension) is
considered broken.
For non graphical browsers, like Lynx, I can understand, but there just
isn't any excuse for graphical browsers.
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