Re: PDF pain

Thanks for that, I'll leave O'Reilly alone. For the record, I was using Konqueror and Mozilla (and xpdf) on RedHat 7.2, standard installations. Michael On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Thanks for your pointers Richard, you've given me plenty of ideas for when > > things go wrong as I continue to explore PHP and PDF. > > > > As it turns out, my problem was a typo copied faithfully from 'Programming > > PHP'. For anyone else trying the example (Hello world in PDF, on p 234), > > make sure you use "application/x-pdf" in the Content-Type header, not > > "application/pdf" as printed in the book. > > > > If this really is a typo, could someone let me know and maybe I'll > > register it with O'Reilly if they don't already know about it. > > > > Typos happen in all books, especially technical books. Apart from this > > small error (?), the book is great and has really filled out the holes in > > my PHP knowledge. > > Well, I wrote that, and it is not a typo. Your browser is simply > misconfigured. If you install Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which these days is > the de-facto standard PDF browser plugin, it will register itself as > application/pdf. Same for every other PDF viewer on every platform I have > ever tried. > > So, if you want people to be able to view your page, you better use > application/pdf and not application/x-pdf and fix your browser config > while you are at it. > > -Rasmus > > > -- -------------------------------- n i n t i . c o m php-python-perl-mysql-postgresql -------------------------------- Michael Hall ninti@ninti.com --------------------------------