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Please help me.

I am a novice at jsp and java. i need to display a pdf file in browser.
Even though I set contentType to "application/pdf", i see garbage on the
screen.

Can some one please help me or suggest some ideas?

All help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!

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novice via JavaKB.com <> wrote:
> I am a novice at jsp and java. i need to display a pdf file in browser.
> Even though I set contentType to "application/pdf", i see garbage on the
> screen.
>
> Can some one please help me or suggest some ideas?

Use a servlet. JSP pages are generally only suitable for text results, and
PDF is not. In the servlet, set the content type on the response object.


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I REALLY need to display pdf doc without using servelets. I don't create
the pdf docs. These are existing docs.

Please someone help!!

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news:.. .
> Please help me.
>
> I am a novice at jsp and java. i need to display a pdf file in browser.
> Even though I set contentType to "application/pdf", i see garbage on the
> screen.
>
> Can some one please help me or suggest some ideas?
>
> All help will be greatly appreciated.

do you have a pdf helper application, or a pdf plugin?

novice:
You wrote that you are using JSP. Did you know that JSPs are compiled
into Servlets? Any application server / Servlet Container that can host
JSPs should be able to host vanilla Servlets just fine.

Your handle is "novice" and you're posting to the
comp.lang.java.programmer group, not the "help" group. Oscar was giving
you good advise. If you want to produce PDFs, you should do it with a
Servlet - that's the typical / standard way to produce PDFs over the
web using Java.

I just re-read your original post and can inerpret it two different
ways:

1. You already have static files of PDFs on your web server.
2. You already have data files you wish to use to create PDF files.

If #1, then all you need to do is somewhere in your JSP create an HREF
link to the PDF files and let your web server serve them. I don't see
how / why you would serve static PDFs *thru* a JSP.

Good luck,
Noah

Noah, Oscar, Dotty - Thank you for your responses.

Noah - Yes I already have static files but they are not located in the www
path. the files are in a data directory. I can search and display the file
list from that directory but the webserver does not recognize the datadir.

So how would i display the file that is not in the webpath?


Heeeeeelp

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Anyone??????

How do I display a file from a dir that is not in the www path?
A pdf file?

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Novice,
You're posting to the comp.lang.java.programmer group - a group
for serious java questions. Your question is far more related to
beginning web hosting / web mastering.
Here are some answers for you, and please don't ask about JSP
again - everyone has already told you that it doesn't make sense.

1. If it's a UNIX machine, create a symbolic link from within
your www path and to the pdf files or directories.
2. Create a script (can be done in windows, macos, unix, etc)
that copies the pdfs to an appropriate location in your www root. You
can run this manually, or set-up a recurring task (windows) or cron-job
(unix/macos)
3. Learn how to properly configure your web server, and you
should be able to serve-up pdfs from anywhere on your system by making
a second document-root for only the pdfs, with a directory alias (I
know this works with Apache, and am pretty sure it works in Microsoft
IIS).

Good luck to you.

[borgymanotoy]

hello there,

you might want to try this sample line...

<iframe src="URL_OF_PDF_FILE_HERE.pdf" style="width:800px;height:600px;border:1px solid #000000;z-index:1;" />

you can change the src value to the address of your pdf file [i.e. src="pdfs/sample.pdf"]

goodluck.