There are a couple of different things that could be causing this problem. Try using a File Manager app to open your downloaded file. You can find it in your Downloads folder. If you can open the file using a File Manager, you'll want to reset your browser.
Reset your browser by opening your Settings app, selecting "Apps" or "Applications", finding your browser in the list of apps, and then tapping the "Clear data" button. PDF attempts to open in the wrong app. Open the Settings app. Select "Apps" or "Applications". Select the app that attempts to open your PDF files.
In the "Launch by Default" section, tap "Clear defaults". Try opening the PDF file again. You should be prompted to select the app you want to use. Method 4. Tap the PDF that you want to open. Tap the open PDF to open the menu. This will allow you to select another app to handle the PDF. Tap "Open in. This will display a list of apps that support PDF. Select the app that you want to use.
The PDF will open immediately in your selected app. Method 5. Transfer the PDF file to your Kindle. There are a couple of different ways that you can do this. You can connect your Kindle to your computer and add the file to your Kindle's storage. Click here for detailed instructions.
You can wirelessly transfer the PDF file using your free Kindle transfer email. Open the file on your Kindle. This looks like a hack for some legacy browsers. Always use the correct mimetype if you can. NOTE: I prefer setting the filename on the server side as you may have more information and can use common code. If you are using HTML5 and I guess nowadays everyone uses that , there is an attribute called download.
Here filename is optional, but if provided, it will take this name for the downloaded file. If you don't want the browser to prompt the user then use "inline" for the third string instead of "attachment". Inline works very well.
The PDF display immediately without asking the user to click on Open. I've used "attachment" and this will prompt the user for Open, Save. I've tried to change the browser setting nut it doesn't prevent the prompt. I had the same issue and most of the above answers should resolve your issue. After brainstorming and trying for many hours. The Culprit was firefox , well in a way it was me. Nervous Laughter. By default , when you open a pdf file in firefox, it will provide you with a popup to either save the pdf file or to open it directly and there is also a check box which says do this action automatically from now on and guess who selected it.
Due to this mistake, my pdf was being downloaded rather than viewed , even if had all the required headers in response. This is a simple mistake but cost me a good amount of time. To resolve this, just go to settings and search for applications and change pdf setting to whatever you need. If the PDF file is inside some folder and that folder doesn't have permission to access files in that folder directly then you have to bypass some file access restrictions using.
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Andrey 15 Oct Reply. Lucas 18 Oct Reply. Is it possible to add text to the blob? Marcelo Sampaio 17 Nov Reply. Francis 26 Feb Reply. Thanks a bunch man, it works in React. THanks you so much man…it works on React. Bibi 12 Apr Reply. Ani 4 Jun Reply. Sam 16 Jul Reply. Hello Ani, have you found a solution to this, I am having the same problem in Vue js. Jason 17 Jun Reply. HansM 26 Jun Reply. Anders Poulsen 26 Jun Reply.
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They may even print documents to read long form to avoid the problems of extended screen use. UK does nothing to address this - trying to print the html pages results in comically large text with no attempt to format content in page form. It also wastes reams of paper. The ethos for the site seems to focus on accessibility first - whilst forgetting just how unusable this can make content.
Text size way is too big - this hampers readability rather than improving accessibility. Better yet, have a choice of style sheets to render the content at normal size rather than like an infants reading book.
HTML, and worse, coupled with poor design choices like here, is nowhere near this level The PDF haters need to think about why people find them so useful. There are definitely times when paper is best, and there is a place for PDFs where there is a proper reason for them we only listed the common ones. We have a responsibility to make GOV. UK available for everyone, and we work towards making it accessible for the greatest number of people.
Large text is easier to read, but does require more scrolling. On balance, it helps more people than it hinders. Comment by Harry Lund posted on on 17 July It's quite cumbersome to work through an intermediary on a document undergoing frequent revisions, so people tend to wait until the final version is ready before looking into creating an HTML version - at which point you can be timed out, so just go with the easy PDF version.
I'd love to see lots more people trained up to be publishers. And indeed I've been trying to sign up for the training myself, but have been told no courses are currently planned.
Comment by Neil Williams posted on on 17 July Thank you for all of these comments. I agree with many of the pro-PDF points being made here. They have their uses, and where that's the case we would recommend publishing both in HTML and PDF and we will at some point add a feature that happen automatically from our publishing software. The problems come when PDF is the only format on offer - that's the behaviour I would love to confine to history.
Agree also with points on version control. I should have made it clear in my post that GOV. UK has features to track versions of HTML content, through the 'page history' at the foot of each page which includes notes about what has changed. We store the entire content of all past versions of HTML pages in our database and intend in future to make that whole rich history available through our API.
The same is not true of PDFs, which can be overwritten using the same file name, without retaining history of changes other than by comparison with offline copies.
Comment by David Tallan posted on on 19 July We are starting to hear more and more frequently from librarians and archivists who are concerned about the long term impacts of this in terms of preserving the government record.
They share the concerns that Nathan raised above that "HTML is not in any way a long-term archival format. What is GOV. UK doing to support long term preservation of the record? Is the assumption that everything will always be accessible to researchers and scholars of the future through the current platform or its descendants? Or are materials regularly copied for long term preservation elsewhere?
If the latter, do you find HTML a challenge for that? Comment by R K Hayden posted on on 26 July As noted by others, PDFs are good for reading offline. And by offline, I still mean on-screen, not on paper. For documents that if published as html would be spread over many html pages, a single PDF file also provides an easily searchable document. You should be providing users with the option to access documents in a range of open formats.
They're only not designed for reading on screens because the designers of the documents have chosen to make them so. Whilst it is true that, as you say, "A PDF document that was created for offline use will not suit the context of the web and is likely to result in a poor user experience.
Comment by Ian Taylor posted on on 17 July Our company did the same thing. However, it has taken away one crucial feature that PDFs support: offline reading. Until you address this problem you have to accept that you've removed one route to accessing your material.
Printing multiple web pages to PDFs hardly solves this, as you're assuming the user could collect all the material they need before they go offline. So yes, PDFs have their disadvantages but like many content and technology providers, your decision is based on convenience to yourself, and not the user. Comment by Adrian Barker posted on on 17 July From a user perspective, pdfs are often a lot easier and more convenient, particularly for longer 'published documents'.
Slow internet connections can slow down reading html. A well designed pdf can have good navigation. For offline viewing, saving web pages with multiple small files can be a pain.
Shouldn't there be good, clear version-control information easily accessible on both html and pdf? Clearly html is appropriate for most web content but sometimes a pdf is better from the user point of view. For reading on other devices, why not consider other formats like epub though there are problems with non-text. Comment by John Norman posted on on 17 July My perspective as an end-user is that I have no particular interest in PDF per se, but I do want to be able to capture the state of a web page at a particular time especially if I am acting on the advice of that web page.
So I would urge you to continue to improve the printability of pages, which has the side effect of allowing many users to create PDFs from the print dialogue. I checked this page and things are definitely improving. Print margins may be an issue still. Comment by Andy posted on on 16 July Bad idea. Version control is essential for government documents and official forms, which you can't do easily in HTML. PDFs print far better too. Comment by James posted on on 16 July Maybe people don't remember the time when all the world required Microsoft Word Documents.
PDF was the thing that broke that monopoly. PDFs arn't perfect but they provide a way of publishing something and people being able to actually have a copy of that information. Comment by Cyril Randles posted on on 16 July Many of your arguments for html seem to be based on your own needs for data and analysis.
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