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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Mar 1, 2001 11:11 pm Subject: QUESTION: Why don't PDF's download? | ||||||||||||||||
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SignWriting List March 1, 2001 QUESTION: I do not seem to able to download PDF-files. I can read them all right by using Acrobat reader, but they will not download. Any solutions? ANSWER: I suspect your problem has nothing to do with the PDF files themselves, but instead with the way your web browser is configured...In Netscape or Internet Explorer, there are different ways to choose to view PDF files. Your browser may be automatically setup with a PDF plug-in, which forces the PDF file to open inside your web browser, while you are still on the web. And in my experience, such a plug-in does not allow you to actually download the file. Instead you are forced to read it on the web only. I have had that happen before too, and found it quite frustrating. A PDF file compressed with Winzip or other compression software on the web has no problem downloading. The compression software creates a shell around the PDF and doesn't let it open with the PDF browser plug-in. So the only PDFs that will refuse to download are those that are NOT compressed. There is another way around the problem, besides getting rid of the Acrobat PDF-plug-in in your browser....and that is to download the uncompressed-PDF directly by a link to the file itself, rather than trying to download from the web site page. Try clicking on this url below, which will download an uncompressed PDF directly, avoiding the web...see if this works and get back to me: SignWriter 4.4, Instruction Document 9 https://www.SignWriting.org/acrobat/software/SW44-9-Create-SW-PDF.pdf Thanks for the question! -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l To post a message to the SW List: | ||||||||||||||||
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