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Acrobat Plugin should first open, then I want to stream a PDF

 
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Hi,

when I stream a PDF (which is packaged in a ByteArrayOutputStream) to the Browser, the Acrobat Reader plugin opened not until the whole document
is loaded. Is there a header, or anything else I have to set in my servlet to make sure that first the Acrobat plugin open and then the streaming starts. I need this behaviour, because if my user have a slow internet connection, he should have the chance to see the first page of the document during the rest of the document is still loaded in the backround.

code:

//document = PDF as ByteArrayOutputStream

ServletOutputStream servletOut = response.getOutputStream();

response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setContentLength(document.size());

document.writeTo(servletOut);
response.flushBuffer();

servletOut.flush();
 
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he should have the chance to see the first page of the document during the rest of the document is still loaded in the backround.



Do a google search on "Linearized PDF" or "Linear PDF".
The PDF itself has to be generated in a particular way to get this behaviour.
 
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thank you now i have understood
It's a pity that iText not supported "Linearized PDF's", so I have to look for an alternative possibility to create a linearized PDF.
[ March 18, 2005: Message edited by: Chris Jackal ]
 
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