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Make sure form opens in browser, rather than downloads?

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2010-01-02 09:56:15
grlintheworld
Registered: Dec 21 2009
Posts: 66

I have a form that is going to live on my server, and there's a link to it on my web page. How can I make sure that when you click on the link, the form opens up inside the browser, and doesn't just download the form to my desktop? Because it loses it's submit functionality if it's not in a browser, correct?

Safari seems to be doing this just fine but firefox just keeps downloading it to my downloads folder no matter what i try...

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.2, Macintosh
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2010-01-03 04:14:13
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pddesigner
Registered: Jul 9 2006
Posts: 858
Read this Adobe manual

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf
Page 8
or
Try this JavaScript on a button click:

app.launchURL(“http://www.mycompany.com/file.
pdf”, true);

My favorite quote - "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

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2010-01-03 06:23:48
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grlintheworld
Registered: Dec 21 2009
Posts: 66
That manual is great and had lots of info I hadn't seen before, but it all seemed related to how the PDF acts when it's opened - not how's it's opened. I couldn't seem to see anything in there related to making sure the PDF opens within my browser...

I will try the button suggestion you made next...

Although since I am linking to this PDF from my website and not another PDF form, would I need to use a piece of HTML rather than a Java Script?

Thanks!
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