PDF embedded opening in new window

On 11/3/2009 7:51 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

Andrew Poulos wrote:
rf wrote:

It's a browser setting.
Could you please give me an idea what setting that would be in, say, IE 8?

Regardless of the browser one very plausible scenario is to now have a
browser plugging installed and have PDF set to open in an associated
reader[1] or download only.

[1] The reader does not necessarily have to be Adobe's product, I use
Foxit and there is Evince and others, even OO.

With web design you need to understand that you not have absolute
control of how or with what your content will be displayed.

BTW I do not think I am alone in *really* detesting embedded PDF
content. Information in PDF is always larger than as HTML and for folks
like me with metered access a link with content type and file size noted
is far preferable. Then I can decide whether or not I wish to download
the data. The same goes for all those sites is auto-starting videos as well!

I use PDF on my Web site in only two cases: Either I have scanned a
hard-copy document into a PDF file or else I have copied a PDF file from
another source.

On rare occasions, I might temporarily use a PDF file generated by
"printing" to Acrobat from Word, Excel, etc. This is because other
users might not have computers that can open an actual Word or Excel
file, while PDF files are much more universally readable.

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David E. Ross wrote:

I use PDF on my Web site in only two cases: Either I have scanned a
hard-copy document into a PDF file or else I have copied a PDF file from
another source.

On rare occasions, I might temporarily use a PDF file generated by
"printing" to Acrobat from Word, Excel, etc. This is because other
users might not have computers that can open an actual Word or Excel
file, while PDF files are much more universally readable.

That is fine, no issue there, all good uses for PDF. Just offer them to
your visitors via a link and not embedded.

See <a href="someDocument.pdf">Specifications</a> [PDF 650KB]

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David E. Ross kirjoitti:

And then there are cases where the same link to a PDF document opens
variously in the existing browser window, a new browser window, a new
tab within the existing window, or in the window of a PDF reader
application. These variations depend on how various users have
configured their computers.

And then some. My FF is set to ask me what to do with a PDF. Formerly it
was set to automatically download them to a specified location.

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