Downloading PDF files

[popeye2sea]

Perhaps I am missing something obvious, but I can no longer download .pdf files attached to posts.  I am currently using Chrome.

 

Regards,

[Nirvana]

Henry, are you looking for true pdf files or the topic of how to create pdf files.
Attached you will find a good tutorial of creating your own pdf files.

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[GGibson]

4 hours ago, popeye2sea said:

Perhaps I am missing something obvious, but I can no longer download .pdf files attached to posts.  I am currently using Chrome.

 

Regards,

 

Based on how Henry phrased his question, I am assuming he is referring to PDF files that are attached to posts.  For testing purposes, I looked at the following post (found using "pdf" in the Search box), where EdT has numerous PDF files in his post.  I am using Microsoft Edge, not Chrome, but I had no issues opening and/or downloading a handful of the files in that post.

 

[popeye2sea]

Gregg,

 

Thanks for the reply.  I just attempted to download that specific PDF in the post.  Clicking on the hyperlink does nothing. Not even an attempt to retrieve the file.  I am wondering if a recent upgrade to chrome may have changed some security setting on my PC, but I can not find anything that works to reverse the problem. I even tried after disabling security features completely.

 

Regards,

Henry

[palmerit]

First thing I'd do is try a different web browser (and/or reboot the computer).

[Dr PR]

Henry,

 

This could be a browser problem. I'd do a Google search for problems receiving PDF files with your browser.

 

Several years ago high-zoot programmers had a convention to discuss how to "improve" the Internet. One of the problems is that the file type (name.type) for the file names can be anything, thanks to the less than brilliant programmers who created this crap. Anyone can rename a text file type to be a picture file type, or anything else. Computers use the file type to determine which programs should open the file, but in fact, because there is no security built into the system, file types are meaningless. Hackers use this bug to plant software "bombs" that can take over programs that open the files.

 

So the later day geniuses decided that file types would be used no more. The file type must be embedded in the file header (part of the information in the file). Returning from this convention, one of these less than brilliant programmers changed a popular email program to reject all PDF files that did not have the file type embedded in the header. And in one incredibly stupid stroke this idiot denied the program's users access to virtually all the collected wisdom in the world that was in PDF format because this new "standard" had not been implemented yet!! And, of course, most of those old files will never be updated, nor will much of the software that generated them.

 

This is the sort of stupidity that passes for intelligence among the folks who manage the Internet and develop software, web pages and such. And it is quite possible that one of these bozos created an update for your browser that rejects old format PDF files - or any other file created before this convention of idiots.

[CDR_Ret]

You might try these fixes:

https://pdf.minitool.com/news/cant-download-pdf-files.html