I'm pretty sure this isn't possible but thought I'd check with you guys.
I've just had a bizarre query from a client who wants to know if it's possible to give the user the option to either download a pdf or open it in their browser.
They have a thumbnail for the PDF. Single click to open it in the browser or double click to download it. I know I can catch the single or double click with jQuery. I just want to know if it's possible to force the behaviour of the link.
Thanks
This is possible, if for example you are using PHP you can create 2 methods, once will be a simple direct link to the pdf file (if a customer has adobe reader then it will open the pdf in the browser otherwise it will force a download), the other method would always force a download.
You can find a PHP force file download example here: How to force download of a file?
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I'm using OS X and I see on chrome that I can Save as PDF in the print window if I set the destination to "Save as PDF". Does this functionality exist in Windows?
Is there any way I can take advantage of this and have it save to PDF with just a click of a button? How can I open up the print page and save that as a PDF? Can I set the default destination to "Save as PDF" and then programmatically click the "Save" button?
Edit: I have tried to use jsPDF but was unable to pull the CSS.
there is also an option to print PDF on Windows 10.
This javascript code opens a print dialog:
window.print();
I have used PhantomJS before to render PDFs from webpages programmatically. You'd have to write a PhantomJS script to accomplish that but they have helpful examples documented.
jsPDF is a good tool for this.
This question is a possible duplicate of Download a div in a HTML page as pdf using javascript, which provides a demo and sample usage for jsPDF.
I got a webpage where members can download different kind of files on. I wan't to get information about which files and how many times each member have downloaded. when the user want to download a file he get browser pop-up where he gets 3 choises: "Open", "save" and "Cancel".(file dialog box in browser). i want to update the download status only if open/save button is clicked
Is there a way to detect which button was clicked on "save/open/cancel" dialog?
You can't know that. Some browsers even start the download before the user decides what to do with the file. But perhaps you can get your webserver to log if the download has been completed. That's probably the most reliable result you can get.
There is no way to know which button was clicked.
I dont think you can. The site just streams the file to the browser. What the user does
with the file is not known by the website as there is no more server side
interaction.
I would like to print my webpage as an pdf with the window.print(). Right now I just get the dialog box up as default. I was wondering if I could make it select print to pdf and then proceed by it self.
I have tried classes like dompdf etc., but this print to pdf is really what I need here. So if it is possible to set some default printing settings and maybe make it automatically, then let me know.
As mentioned in the comment no you cannot do this. Also not sure if you have custom print button or you are using Ctrl+P shortcut.
In cases you may see a PDF is opened in a new tab and you can download from there.
Otherwise in operations like bank account summary download , generally handled by a kind of form submit , and the pdf is created by controller/service layer by using PDF Generator like iText.
HERE is a link for information on PDF open source library.
I have a website, but I need a button which I want to print a specific .pdf file from my webpage database.
As an example, this site
has a print button, which gives you option to print some pdf files
Any idea how can I do that?
I've tried this one, but it's not working:
<a href="../Documents/ScrittoGraffito/Scritto_Customers/Nicolaides_Optical/Nicolaides_webpage/Shop1_Banner.pdf"
onclick="window.print()"/><p class="test">link</p></a>
That code will tell the browser to open the print dialog for the current page.
If you want to force the browser to print the linked pdf then that is not possible, as it will be completely controlled by the application or plugin that handles pdf documents.
EDIT;
Apparently it is possible, but you have to make use of a pdf toolkit.
I am really having some problems in that I want my visitors to open a certain PDF from a link on my site, however, I can get it to display on a separate tab next to my website, but what I would really like is for it to be forced to open in Adobe Reader.
Is this possible? Has anyone managed to do this?
I have my links set up, they open in a separate tab, but I just feel its more professional if it were to open in Adobe Reader.
Ive been looking for the same thing, and the answer is very simple : add download to your a href code : < a href="document.pdf" download>
It prompts a box which asks you if you want to save or just open the document
Normally the browser will detect that the link with holds a .pdf, and it will open up the PDF in the browsers viewer, and I have seen this in just about all browsers. Then you will be able to use the given functions like size, print, and save.