Error: File damaged and could not be repaired

[novasoy]

I know one cannot keep a user from saving a web-distributed (Acrobat 5.05) PDF to his/her hard drive, but I'm trying to make it as hard as I can. To that end I have altered the document properties to hide the toolbar and menubar, which works great. Not satisfied with that, rather than refer to the PDF file directly with a regular hyperlink, I want to do a ASP redirect to the file. That has the added bonus feature of hiding the PDF filename and preventing the user from doing a "Save Target As..." on the hyperlink.

Everything seems to work great, except for one detail. I get the above error as the PDF is opening in the browser. The redirect seems to be working fine because I can see the address bar and title bar change, and Acrobat obviously is starting up.

Any ideas?

 

[derren]

I am not sure, but I think you will need to change the response.type to "application/vnd/pdf" (this is an estimation - I can't get to my normal workstation for clarification) or something like that, as you may already be writing the response in the standard format before the response.redirect. Derren
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