Is it possible to have a dialogue box pop up to ask the user to save or open the file rather than have the PDF pop up? I created a form with a lot of interactive elements that work just fine--but the user needs to SAVE the file before it can function properly. I see Word documents automatically have that dialogue box that forces the user to either open the file or save it to their computer rather than work with the file that is on the web. We use Plone for our webpages so it's a bit limited. Thanks
This is hard to control from the server side, because it also depends on the user's configuration settings.
One thing you may do, but you have to be aware that there may be side-effects, is to give the form another suffix (for example .pdy), and an unknown or no MIME type. In this case, the browser does not know which application to use to open it, and it will most likely download the document. The side effect is that after downloading, the user's machine still does not know what to do with the document, and the user will have to open it manually from Acrobat/Reader.
Another, less wonky approach would be to create a zip archive from the form, and provide this archive. Archives are usually downloaded to the client (and then maybe opeened immediately).
HTH.
Max Wyss.