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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quicksketch
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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:

$conf['filefield_inline_types'] = array('^text/', '^image/', 'flash$', 'application/pdf');
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antiorario commented

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.

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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)
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antiorario commented

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.