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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Yao Zhu <zh...@yaozhu.com> on 2002/01/02 07:27:31 UTC

print pdf in weblogic linux and solaris server?

Hi,

I have encountered a strange problem.

I am writing codes that dynamically generate pdf and display in IE. I use
Sitraka's JC Class pagelayout 4.5.1 to generate pdf. I set contentType to
"application/pdf" and set actionForward to null.
It worked fine in tomcat test environment 3.2.3 on Windows platform.

Then, I try to run the codes in weblogic 5.10 in linux. It generates pdf
fine, but cannot display it in IE browser. I then changed contentType to
something wrong to force the IE to save it into a file. It turned out to be
a perfectly good pdf file. But, when I use the correct contentType, it just
cannot show in IE.

Has anyone encountered this kind problem before? What's you solution?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

-Yao Zhu



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Re: print pdf in weblogic linux and solaris server?

Posted by "David M. Karr" <dm...@earthlink.net>.
>>>>> "Yao" == Yao Zhu <zh...@yaozhu.com> writes:

    Yao> Hi,
    Yao> I have encountered a strange problem.

    Yao> I am writing codes that dynamically generate pdf and display in IE. I use
    Yao> Sitraka's JC Class pagelayout 4.5.1 to generate pdf. I set contentType to
    Yao> "application/pdf" and set actionForward to null.
    Yao> It worked fine in tomcat test environment 3.2.3 on Windows platform.

    Yao> Then, I try to run the codes in weblogic 5.10 in linux. It generates pdf
    Yao> fine, but cannot display it in IE browser. I then changed contentType to
    Yao> something wrong to force the IE to save it into a file. It turned out to be
    Yao> a perfectly good pdf file. But, when I use the correct contentType, it just
    Yao> cannot show in IE.

    Yao> Has anyone encountered this kind problem before? What's you solution?

I have not had to deal with this, but I believe you have to fool IE with the
extent on the original URL.  IE will respect the file extent more than the
content type.  I've seen people add things like the following to the end of
their request to fool it:

      &dummy=.pdf


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