Re: [SLUG] How to get a PDF file in memory to a users Web browser

[Michael Lake <mikel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick Welykochy wrote:
> 
> Michael Lake wrote:
> > I wish to create some PDF docs using pdflib on the server and send them
> > to a users browser.
.....

> Suggestion 1: make the script output the PDF as the content, no HTML:
> 
>   print "Content-type: application/x-pdf\r\n";    # or whatever the content type should be
>   print "Content-length: $pdflen\r\n"
>   print "\r\n"
>   print $pdfbuf;

GREAT ! This works now....

# Send the doc to the users browser.
my $length = length ($document); 
my $filename = "out.pdf";
my $q = new CGI;               # create new CGI object

print "Content-Type: application/pdf\n";
print "Content-Length: $length\n";
print "Content-disposition: inline; filename=$filename\n\n";
print $document;

And it is quite fast too. Netscape renders the image of the PDF
immediately, so much faster for the client too !
It seems strange to me thought that it needs a filename. I dont quite
understand why its required.

Thanks
Mike
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