Posted by Steve Lefevre on 10/21/12 11:27

Philip Hallstrom wrote:

>
> We finally figured out that IE was beginning the download of the PDF
> itself, but if it downloaded more than about 1mb, it would pass it off
> to a helper application to do the rest. The thing was the helper
> application remade the request. But it wasn't passing along the form
> parameters used to generate the PDF so he was always getting a blank
> PDF (blank in the sense of generically empty).


If that is what's happening here, I can offer a solution -- I am using
R&OS ( www.ros.co.nz/*pdf*/ ) to dynamically generate pdfs, which I
first write to the server, and then I have just a regular link available
to the user. That solved a lot of issues for me.

Steve Lefevre

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