Preview pdf in window instead of downloading

TransmitFile Response. The first step im interested to know more. The second step is not practical in my program. Using the first step can i redirect the file to another window? You can not open a new window from server side. You will have to open the download page in a new window, and in that window use TransmitFile to return the file to the user. Why can't you add a target to it? You can add it with JavaScript if for some reason you can't change the a tag's source e.

You can serverside like this. Unfortunately, this only works if you have an actual file stored somewhere. If you have a byte array that has been generated for example, there is no 'path' - rendering Response. TransmitFile useless. At least that's what I'm running into. Write "window. Karthik Karthik 2, 6 6 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 65 65 bronze badges. How will i call that downloading file into this?? I should create it for reading and later it can be saved too.

The problem is i cannot give the original name of the file or path too with the file. So i must do the above step to download it and then open it with another name. Can you make a temp copy on the server? Yetimandaddy Yetimandaddy 49 4 4 bronze badges. GetInstance pdfDoc, Response. OutputStream ; pdfDoc. Add Text ; pdfWriter. SetCacheability HttpCacheability.

Asked 1 year, 7 months ago. Active 1 year, 7 months ago. Viewed 3k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Vishal Vishal 1 1 gold badge 8 8 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. It is the web site that instructs the browser to download the PDF instead of viewing it: Web sites usually controls this using the "Content-Disposition: attachment" header which is sent by the web server to the browser.

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