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[Brian D.]

Your problem is that you're actually outputting the PDF content twice.
readfile() actually reads the file into the output buffer, so it's the
equivalent of:

echo file_get_contents($file);

See http://us2.php.net/readfile

- Brian D.

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Check the error log. Its possible something in your code above that
> smippet (perhaps in an include file) is sending body text and you are
> not seeing the error.
>
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Kristina Anderson
> <ka at kacomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
>> ahh... I see one thing, I should be using attachment rather than
>> inline...
>>
>> let me see if that helps :)
>> ------------- Forwarded message follows -------------
>>
>> Hi Everyone --
>>
>> I'm almost there with my PDF download application and everything is
>> working great except that instead of downloading the PDF, it's printing
>> it out on the screen like so:@ 8 ("µrœ;q(R)ª7èLö œy¥•&†Q ëñ q¶4±jž½ç|æ9ÚÄ
>>  V ³)g B£0ñiœW× •8#(c)8wÕ(c)•õ8_Å٥ʨQãüÜ «QÊj @é&»A)/ÇÙ gº>'K‚ó ÈtÕ;\ú  "
>>  Ó¥$ÕºF½ZUnÀÜå ˜(4TŒ%)ë«" ƒ0C&¯"é ˜¤Z£"i  ˜¿óœ8¦Úbx'ƒE¡ÁÁB  Ñ;…
>> ú¯›¿P¦ÞÎÓ"̹žAü om?çW= €x ¯Íú·¶Ò-Œ¯ Àòæ[›Ëû0ñ¾ ¾øÎ}ø¦y)
>> 7 ta¾¾õõõ>j¥ÜÇTÐ7úŸ ¿@ï¼ÏÇtÜ›ò`qÊ2™±Ê€™ê&¯(R)ª6ê etc.
>>
>> Here is the code that I have right now...something is wrong.  At one
>> point I got it to give me the file save/download dialogue box but with
>> the pagename not the filename...
>>
>> //=======
>>
>> $filename="333.pdf";
>> $filesize=filesize($filename);
>> header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
>>    header("Content-Length: ".$filesize);
>>    header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=$filename");
>>    header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
>> $file_contents = readfile($filename);
>> print $file_contents;
>>
>> //======
>>
>> -- Kristina
>>
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