pdf/fdf popup problem

[rob_ganly]

i am outputting a prefilled pdf form and sending a header to the browser to this effect:

header('Content-type: application/vnd.fdf');
echo create_fdf($form, $strings, $keys);
exit();

everything works beautifully except that on some machines the pdf form pops into a different window (i think this is what is happening) and leaves an empty window behind, thus there is a spare empty window floating around, which the client isn't going to like.

i've tried using javascript self.close at the bottom of the above code but that doesn't seem to work...

the bit that is foxing me is that it only does it on some machines, leading me to think that it might be a pdf/plugin/browser configuration issuer rather than the code itself.

any help on this would be massively appreciated.

best regards,

rob ganly

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[slave138]

If the second window you were talking about is an Acrobat window (not a browser window with Acrobat embedded in it), it could be related to a setting in Acrobat itself.

Go to Edit > Preferences > General (or just Edit > Preferences in Acrobat Reader) and check the Options settings. To have it load directly into the browser window, make sure you have "Display PDF in browser", "Check browser settings", and (possibly) "Use page cache" selected. Uncheck "Display in browser" if you want it to open outside of the browser (you may get a downloaded file type warning doing it this way).

I have also found that by unchecking "Fast web view" causes PDFs to load in the browser window without opening a blank Acrobat window.

This may or may not help in your case, but you left out some of the more detailed info which would be beneficial in narrowing down the issue (browser types and versions, acrobat type and version, etc...)