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I need to output a dynamically generated PDF document to a web browser.
Can some tell me if Id be better to use a separate window for this, or 
will it work OK if i just use the current window for this.
ive noticed that the View Source option is removed after a PDF is displayed

-----Original Message-----
From: FOP Newsgroup [mailto:fop@basebeans.com]
Sent: 03 July 2002 19:40
To: fop-user@xml.apache.org
Subject: RE: Browser Issues


Subject: RE: Browser Issues
From: Davor Cengija <dc...@inet.hr>
 ===
Deri Cronin wrote:

> I am using very similar code which I have took directtly from the
> FopServlet example in the 0.20.3 download. I get the same behaviour as you
> describe. I know that the servlet is generating the output PDF correctly
> because I save it to a file on the server and PDFs generated with
> glossary.fo and glossary.xml and xsl are identical. I think it is an IE5.5
> problem because the same servlet code works OK for Netscape 6.2 and fails
> in a different way with !E5.0. I have tried setting the url to have an
> extension .pdf - it makes no difference!
>  
> This looks like show-stopper unless 0.20.x will work any better.
>  
> Anyone have any successful experience with this?

I had a similar problem: we were using XEP for dynamic PDF creation and it 
worked just fine with some browsers, but IE 5 failed to display the 
content. I did quite a lot of investigations and finally concluded that IE5 
has a nasty bug: it is not able to display a dinamically created PDF while 
that same PDF, when stored on the server's disk instead sent directory to 
IE, is shown just fine.

The solution is to disable Acrobat plugin integration within IE. Open 
Acroread, Options and then look for the checkbox. We have an official 
statement on the site which suggests just that. Everything works, customer 
happy :-)

Additionally, some combinations of IE/Acroread might work just fine, and 
some fail sadly.

-- 
Davor Cengija
dcengija_remove_@inet.hr
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"Nicht in die Augen bringen!"

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