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How to make PDFs open in browser window (Safari, IE)

Posted by antiorario on November 16, 2009 at 3:34pm
Project:FileField
Version:6.x-3.2
Component:Miscellaneous
Category:support request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (fixed)

Issue Summary

I suppose this question has been asked somewhere, but I can't seem to find a solution.

In the websites I manage, PDF files uploaded via FileField are downloaded instead of displayed in the browser window. Of course I'm talking about the browsers—like Safari and IE—that support in-browser PDF display. The Upload module allows this, and it seems strange that FileField doesn't.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Comments

#1

Posted by quicksketch on November 16, 2009 at 4:19pm

Are you using private or public downloads (set at admin/settings/file-system)? There's the opposite (force a file to download) instructions at http://drupal.org/node/417866 for public downloads. For private downloads you need to set a hidden variable "filefield_inline_types" by putting this in your settings.php:

<?php
$conf['filefield_inline_types'] = array('^text/', '^image/', 'flash$', 'application/pdf');
?>

#2

Posted by antiorario on December 2, 2009 at 4:02pm

Sorry for the delay, but for some reason I'm not receiving e-mail notifications of issue updates.

Thanks for the input. I'm using private downloads, and I'll definitely try that and see what happens.

#3

Posted by quicksketch on December 20, 2009 at 2:26am
Status:active» closed (fixed)

#4

Posted by antiorario on January 26, 2010 at 9:56am

I finally tried it, and it worked perfectly. Of course I realized that the same can be achieved, in the appropriate context (such as a module install function), with:

<?php
variable_set('filefield_inline_types', array('^text/', '^image/', 'flash$', 'application/pdf'));
?>

I'm mostly writing this as a note to myself—and to anyone who might be interested.