I have the following problem. I have my j2ee application installed in an Unix box.
I maintain a folder in the unix system which has got some PDF files.
Now in my application,I have a hyperlink which opens any one of these PDF files in a new window in a browser.
Iam not able to view the PDF in the browser.I used a plain ahref on the filepath in unix and its not working.
Does the unix system on which the J2EE app is hosted has to have a "Acrobat Reader" installed so that I can use Runtime.getRuntime().exec("") method to view the PDF file?
Thanks Ragav
Ulf Dittmer
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The client system (i.e., yours) needs to have a PDF viewer (most often Acrobat Reader) installed. The server doesn't need one (it simply streams the file to the client).
Iam getting the following error though when I try to open the PDF.Other applications are opening perfectly though like word,excel etc.
The error message is
"Adobe reader could not open the file because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been corrupted(for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)".
The file is not corrupt as Iam able to open it.But when I upload the pdf file to the server and try to read it in my application(a jsp page with a href link to the document from the server),its giving me this error.
Thanks Ragav
Ulf Dittmer
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Maybe the file gets corrupted during the upload and download process? Have you verified that what gets downloaded is exactly the same as what you uploaded?
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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