Directly open a exported pdf

[Rainer Goos]

I export a report directly to pdf and send it to the browser in that way:

private void ExportReport(Telerik.Reporting.Report Report)

{

string MimeType = string.Empty;

string Extension = string.Empty;

Encoding Encoding = null;

byte[] Buffer = ReportProcessor.Render("PDF", Report, null, out MimeType, out Extension, out Encoding);

Response.Clear();

Response.Buffer =

true;

Response.ContentType =

"application/pdf";

Response.AppendHeader(

"content-disposition", "attachment;filename=Report.pdf");

Response.BinaryWrite(Buffer);

Response.End();

}

In the IE i can directly open the pdf or save it. When i save it and then open it everything is okay. But when i click on open in the dialog my acrobat reader is executing but the message "file not found" show. What can i do. On an other client it works. I think it must be a client setting.

[Rossen Hristov]

Hello Rainer Goos,

We assume that the problem is with the actual browser and not the produced PDF file, since it opens correctly on other browsers. We found an article describing a case exactly like yours and it seems that IE6 has problems with caching the file at certain occasions. One suggested workaround is removing the content disposition. Can you try that and see whether it will solve the problem. Also, you might want to look at an official Microsoft article concerning a similar behavior. Please, examine those pages and try the different suggestions there.

Another possible way to work around this might be changing the content disposition from "attachment" to "inline".

Greetings,
Ross
the Telerik team

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