Many browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome have the default behavior of viewing the file in the browser window instead of prompting the user to save the file to a location.
As long as you have the ability to edit the HTML code of the page, you can use a simple HTML tweak that will allow you to control when the file download prompt appears if the user clicks a link or a button. In some cases, the name of the file that is stored on the web server is not the most useful to the user.
As of this post, all major desktop browsers excluding Microsoft IE support the download attribute. It is likely that people who use these browsers would likely rather view the document rather than saving it to their phone.
New to HTML 5. This markup is easier to understand and is supported by all modern browsers, but may not be supported by all content management systems. Thanks for the help, i could solve the problem doing a different thing. By clicking show thumbnails, then print, then save as PDF i can now download it. You don't need to do all that. If you're using FireFox, just use the download button, that's what it's for!
Apparently there are ways to lock down the download feature. I've attached the example I am currently struggling with for your information. I am sorry the right click menu is in German, but trust me when I say that there is no download option there either. Let me know if you have any other ideas.
That doesn't look at all like that. And Chrome doesn't allow any other PDF viewer. From this we can conclude that this is not a PDF at all. It's a web site designed to offer something in pages, and so it's easily mistaken for a PDF. It might have been a PDF back on its web site in China, but that isn't what is delivered to you.
Hence, this discussion does not apply. I have no idea if you can save it, because I don't know what facilities you have for saving something on a secure web site that isn't a PDF.
Thank you for clarifying! I still don't believe that "just hit the download button" is a good answer to the question "[how can I] download [a] PDF from a website that has no such option to download that PDF". Obviously FyTg is not a "techie" user and getting into the intricacies of how that PDF file he is viewing is not being served to him a PDF is not gonna solve his problem.
I never use Chrome, but I just opened it and checked settings. To set Chrome to download pdf files rather than opening them in the Chrome viewer, open Settings, click on Privacy and security, then Site Settings.
Find Permissions and click on Additional permissions at the bottom of that section. Scroll way down the page to Additional content settings where you'll find PDF documents as the fourth entry. That's cleverly hidden setting deep in the bowels of Chrome will solve your problem in that browser. Firefox makes this easier.
Go to General settings and scroll a little more than halfway down the page to Applications. Choose your desired outcome for that item in the right column. I'm not sure of the diffence between the left column choices, so I'd set them both. Edge seems to be the easiest of all. Click on Cookies and site permissions.
Scroll way down to PDF documents and click. Then toggle Always download PDF files on or off. Hi, I have the same problem. Can you plz help me to download this file? Mikel, please show a complete screen shot of your browser window, if you can. Active Oldest Votes. Original Answer Outdated, from Viewing the PDF file in the browser without download requires an add-on to the client's browser. There are two other approaches: Convert the file to HTML, image, or any other format that can be directly viewed in the browser.
Improve this answer. Aziz Aziz I think this answer has the closest solution to my problem. Thanks Aziz — woninana. In , a Flash-based anything is never the best.
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VishnuMoorthy VishnuMoorthy 41 3 3 bronze badges. Oleksi Oleksi He means he wants it to display in the browser, and not downloaded and viewed by Adobe Reader. Judging by the other answers and votes, you're right.
But then his question should read something like "how to have a PDF open in a browser window, not in another app". It is not that obvious what he means. You're right, it's not obvious. I've edited the question to elaborate.
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