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ASP.NET pdf file download

Unable to open adobe pdf files downloaded from an asp.net 2.0 page. "the file is damaged and cannot be repaired" says adobe acrobat (7.0.9). The same file opens alright when opened in the browser with a Response.Redirect(FileURL). But when downloaded either through Response.WriteFile(Path) or Response.TransmitFile(Path) -- the entire file gets downloaded alright but adobe cannot open it.

Brett Crawley

You need to set the content type of the http response before streaming the data to application/pdf

Regards

strickdd

Try this:

string DownloadedFileName = "PDFName.pdf";
string PathOfFile = "/PDFName.pdf";

//Get the file from the server and store it
byte[] temp = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(Server.MapPath(PathOfFile));

Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = "application/PDF";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/PDF");
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=" + DownloadedFileName);
Response.BinaryWrite(PDFimage);
Response.Flush();
Response.End();

shaileshmark

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Okay, I should have posted my code

Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AppendHeader ( "Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"" + FileName + "\"" );
//Response.WriteFile ( FilePath);
Response.TransmitFile ( FilePath);

strickdd

What is PDFimage in Response.BinaryWrite(PDFimage) in your code above? Is that temp byte[]?

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