Simple and easy. I must correct myself! It does not work on IE. I tested it on a virtual machine, in which no pdf reader was installed yet. In that case the file is always downloaded. This is a good solution for people who don't want to make changes to their server config.
The download attribute was added in HTML5. Bird Bird 1, 7 7 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. This needs to be done in the server side. You can't do this at the client side.
How to do it depends on the server side language in question. NET: Response. BalusC BalusC 1. For IIS: Put all files you want to force to download in their own folder. Add a new header with the following info: Name: content-disposition Value: attachment All files in that folder, when accessed, should prompt the save as dialog box for the appropriate browser. Justin Emlay Justin Emlay 8 8 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges.
Works really well and don't have to create a page specifically for forcing files to download. Jacob Relkin Jacob Relkin k 29 29 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Alex Alex 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Note: Make sure to save both notepad. See below the snapshot for the execution of the script and the sample PDF and Image file.
I hope you liked the solution. Let me know your feedback in the comments section. This can be a public file-sharing service like Dropbox or Mega, or even restricted ones like cloud.
The essence of the idea is to distribute the link rather than the file to either access and view the file online or download it to their own computers and mobile devices. For example, if you are using Adobe Document Could services, you can follow the steps here:.
Apart from public or private file-sharing options, you can also consider uploading it to your own website as a media file. If you do that, the link can be displayed on your site, and people can click it to view or download the PDF by simply clicking on it. Let's see how the process works:. The first step is to get your PDF document ready as well as open a file-sharing service. If you don't have an account, visit the Google Drive website and create one. Once you complete that step, click on "New" on the left side and select the "Upload files" option from the drop-down menu.
Attach it by ticking the option in the superior area of your screen. The next step is selecting the Image option, which will appear in the list of options to upload one. Finally, click " Apply ," and you'll be done.
One Final Point to Consider: As we briefly touched on at the beginning of this article, a PDF file is intended to maintain the original's static layout no matter what device it is viewed on. That makes it easy for distribution, but it doesn't address the need for dynamic content that most web users are now accustomed to. For example, just uploading a PDF file to a file-sharing service and generating a URL that way will only give you a shareable link to the original document.
On the other hand, converting it to HTML5 will make it highly responsive so the layout can be adapted to the available screen space, the required resolution, and so on.
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