Open Acrobat Reader with javascript

[Michael]

A webpage has the following js:
function openPDF(PDFdoc)

{

// Open a blank window and target PDFdoc into it.

// PDFdoc = web address (URL) of the PDF document to present in a pop-up
window
var new_window = window.open("","pdf",parameters);

new_window.document.location = PDFdoc;

}

The issue is it works OK on Win2kSP4 IE 6.0.2800.1106 Acrobar Reader 6.0.0,
but on Win XP SP1 IE 6.0.2800.1106 Acrobat Reader 6.0.2 it pops up the
window without starting AR. Security settings are the same on both IE.

Please help.

Thank you all.

[Vincent van Beveren]

Did you try new_window.location.href = PDFDoc?

Michael wrote:

A webpage has the following js:
function openPDF(PDFdoc)

{

// Open a blank window and target PDFdoc into it.

// PDFdoc = web address (URL) of the PDF document to present in a pop-up
window
var new_window = window.open("","pdf",parameters);

new_window.document.location = PDFdoc;

}

The issue is it works OK on Win2kSP4 IE 6.0.2800.1106 Acrobar Reader 6.0.0,
but on Win XP SP1 IE 6.0.2800.1106 Acrobat Reader 6.0.2 it pops up the
window without starting AR. Security settings are the same on both IE.

Please help.

Thank you all.

[Richard Cornford]

Michael wrote:

A webpage has the following js:
function openPDF(PDFdoc) <snip> var new_window = window.open("","pdf",parameters);

new_window.document.location = PDFdoc;

It is bizarre to be doing that (assigning to a location object) as:-

var new_window = window.open(PDFdoc, "pdf", parameters);

- should do much the same without the potential timing issues that
follow from the fact that window opening is asynchronous (so the -
document - could not necessarily be expected to exist mere milliseconds
after the - window.open - call).

Also, - document.location - is usually a reference to the - location -
object on the window's global object, and it is generally considered
preferable to be using that global - location - object directly:-

new_window.location = PDFdoc;

- but not when the URL is used as the first argument to the -
window.open - call.

Richard.