Re: Die Page, Die! (Was: Preview button to show PDF without submittingpost data?)

Dave M G wrote: > Ashley, > > Thank you for responding. > >> I think you do, or where else would you show the PDF? Unless you force >> the PDF to download when the user clicks the preview button, you are >> left with the default option of the users browser, which will most >> usually be to display the PDF in the browser window. > > No, that's not what's happening. I'm not showing the PDF in a browser > window. It's being given to the user with the option to download or view > in a separate application. > > So I am fine with the download option. That's what I'm doing now, I > suppose. So since the user is downloading the PDF, they don't need an > in-browser window to view it. > > Once the PDF is downloaded/viewed, I want the new window to die by any > means necessary. > > Surely there's a way. > yup.. forget the new window all together, if you have it set to download as an attachment then the user won't be taken away from the page; so no need for a new window at all.