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Topic: Problems transferring pdf-files via internet?
Conf: (P-PDF) Acrobat 6.0, Msg: 89868
From: Sancho
Date: 6/14/2003 02:09 AM

On 6/13/2003 12:05:36 AM, tiemus wrote:
>ok, situation is this: I'd like to transfer pdf-file
>(created with id2 & exported to pdf, links made in acrobat)
>via ftp to my company web page so my clients could
>view/download it from there. Then happens what I described
>earlier.
>
>-there are plenty of disc space (on hd and server)
>-I doubt that there is problem with permissions on server
>-tried to copy from cd to hd, no problem

OK. I'm not quite sure about the last item, as you don't state whether you copied from CD to HD, removed the CD, and viewed the copy, as I suggested, or whether you simply copied from CD to HD.

Anyway, to rule out corruption of the file from your machine to the server, do a DOS "DIR" on the file before posting, then, in FTP, do a "DIR" of the file on the server. The file sizes must match exactly, down to the last byte. (If your FTP client reports in KB, that's not good enough. Use a command-line FTP client.)

Now, when the customer's client retrieves the file from the server, is it coming back via HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP? This is indicated in the URL you give him (as through a web link).

If you are using HTTP or HTTPS, be sure the web server is set to send the correct MIME type for files named *.PDF or *.pdf. (If a Unix server, this may matter; my Apache knowledge is rusty, so I don't remember.) I believe the HTTP server needs to tell the web browser that the MIME type is "application/x-pdf". Again, I am not sure, and you will need to research that if your web server's manager doesn't know about MIME types.

If you want to send the URL of the PDF file to spamtrap1@topcog.com, I will be happy to look at it over the weekend and see if I can offer any insight.

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