Unable to open the pdf file

[gayak]

Hi all,

A pdf file is already open which launches in a frame..When I try to open another Pdf file I am unable to open it..
I get a Javascript error as " no such interface is supported".Kindly advice to resolve this issue...

Many thanks in Advance..

gayathri

[acoder]

With a cryptic error message like that, it seems like an IE error message. Do you get errors in other browsers?

How do you open the PDF file?

[gayak]

Hi

I haven't tried with other browsers..
I launch the pdf file using the Menu item..
Let me explain the scenario. I have a Menu tab under which i have two menu items. Both is to display different manuals which is of PDF type.
When I click the first one it gets displayed within the window frame. But when I try to launch the other pdf I get an error msg like "no such interfaces supported"..

So I tried this way by Changing the Adobe settings
"Display PDF in browser"---- unchecked it so that it would be displayed externally from the browser .But when I try this it is forcing to save the pdf file before opening it.. Could there be any other solution to overcome this issue


Many thanks in advance

Gayathri

[acoder]

Can you show the code that you use to launch the PDF files?

[gayak]

Hi
// jsp file which calls the servlet . The Manual name is send as a query string

 String filename = getDocumentFileName(request);
            // get file by filename
            int fileExtIndex = filename.lastIndexOf('.');
            if (fileExtIndex > 0) {
                String fileExt = filename.substring(fileExtIndex);
                if (fileExt.equalsIgnoreCase(".pdf")){
                    mimeType = "application/pdf";
 

// Menu .js
menuList.addLink(new Link("wndParent.showURL('/'+ wndParent.sAppContext +'/FileServlet?filekey=Manual')","User Manual"));

[pronerd]

When I try to open another Pdf file I am unable to open it..
I get a Javascript error as " no such interface is supported".Kindly advice to resolve this issue...

If your code is trying to access any elements inside the frame tag after the PDF has been opened you will get JavaScript errors. One the PDF reader plugin starts the contents of the frame stop being HTML elements, and can no longer be accessed by JavaScript. So you will want to make sure you are only accessing the frame tag it self.

As acoder suggested if you want to get help debugging your code it would be a good idea to post the relevant portions.

P.S. Don't for get to use code tags.

[pronerd]

Hi
// jsp file which calls the servlet . The Manual name is send as a query string

String filename = getDocumentFileName(request);
// get file by filename
int fileExtIndex = filename.lastIndexOf('.');
if (fileExtIndex > 0) {
String fileExt = filename.substring(fileExtIndex);
if (fileExt.equalsIgnoreCase(".pdf")){
mimeType = "application/pdf";


// Menu .js
menuList.addLink(new Link("wndParent.showURL('/'+ wndParent.sAppContext +'/FileServlet?filekey=Manual')","User Manual"));

This would be JSP/Java code not JavaScript. Do you have a JavaScript related question? If not you will want to post your question in a forum that supports JSP topics.

Also just as a tip if you do post the code in a JSP/Java relaged forum it would be a good idea to post the error message and related stack trace.