I am trying to open a pdf file from vb using:
Diagnostics.Process.Start("file:///H:/Filename.pdf")
It opens using the PDF application.
I want it to open in the default browser using the browsers pdf viewer.
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I have my resume hosted on resume.momohossa.in
My issue is that when I try to reach this site on my computer, it just opens in a new page. However, when I try to open it on my phone, it has to download the file. Then, I have to open the downloaded file on a PDF viewer such as adobe. I would like for it to not immediately download on my phone. Does anyone have any advice?
Thank you in advance!
By default, on iOS devices, its safari browser can view PDF file directly, and for android deveices, its chrome browser also can do that.
make sure you pdf file is not a stream output file. just make it a static file, e.g. http://host/target.pdf not http://host/pdf/target
I want to download a file from the website:
http://www.trademap.org/Country_SelProduct_TS.aspx?nvpm=1|||||TOTAL|||2|1|1|1|2|1|2|1|1
no filename and extension in the URL. on webpage, excel icon (up-left) has to be on-clicked and then the browser savedfiledialog opens. how to automate this and save the file in pc without browser, from vb.net?
can it be done by webclient.downloadfile?
thanks
Is it possible somehow to force my pdf documents to open always with the Adobe plugin for opening pdf's in a browser?
The problem is that I have some forms that have to be filled and saved(made with Adobe LiveCycle Designer) but with the Chrome PDF Viewer or others different than Adobe's it fails and the filled pdf can not be saved or saves but without the entered data.
you cannot force pdf to be viewed by acrobat by default. Default pdf applications set by browser will be there. You need to go through browsers in order to change the plugin. No code can invoke this functio
Can a pdf file or a doc/docx file be opened in a browser? I have a link which when clicked opens up the document as such in pdf and in MS word. But is it possible to open them in browser using Coldfusion?
thanks in advance
ColdFusion has little to do with how they are opened in the browser. That depends on how the user's browser is configured. If it is configured to open in a standalone app, then it will do so, if it is configured to open in the browser then it will do that. You have some influence if you are serving the file via ColdFusion using the <cfcontent> tag, but since you have provided no code or any explanation of how you are serving these files I will assume you are just doing something like pdf which will just load the file in the browser and the browser determines whether to download it or view it directly.
If you are using <cfcontent> to serve the file then you can also use <cfheader> and send the file as either inline or an attachment which can help tell the browser how it should load it. That said, it is still up to the browser's configuration.
Something like:
<cfheader name="Content-Type" value="application/pdf" />
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline;filename=mypdf.pdf;" />
<cfcontent type="application/pdf" reset="true" variable="#myPDFBinary#" />
would serve a PDF binary, telling the browser to load it inline, which should, if properly configured, open the PDF in the browser.
This is not something that ColdFusion can address. This has to do with the particular web browser being used and what related software a user has installed locally.
If the user has a browser that supports PDF natively (e.g. Chrome) or they have the Adobe Acrobat browser plugin installed, then the PDF will open in the browser. Otherwise, it will open in the Acrobat program or any program they have that can view PDF documents. There is no MS Word plugin for browsers, so the browser will always try to open a .doc file in MS Word (if they have it installed) or any other program they have that can read that type of file.
I would like to programmatically open an app in windows phone.
i found the following code to open an excel file:
var wbt = new WebBrowserTask();
wbt.URL = "http://example.com/file.xlsx";
wbt.Show();
could I use this code to open an .exe file?
Your code does not programmatically open an app. Instead, it opens a web browser, navigates it to the xlsx file URI. Then, Internet Explorer recognizes file type from either extension or MIME type, and launches Excel.
With exe file, you’re only gonna get a message saying something like “Unsupported file format”.