How to open a PDF within a PDF viewer embedded in a html page

Question

Hi. I'm trying to modify a jsp that opens a runtime generated pdf. Originally, the pdf is opened by prompting the Adobe Reader program, but now I need to open the pdf within the jsp (which also have other content, not just display the pdf). I tried to embed the pdf in an iframe (similar to this: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/iframe-pdf.html ), but not works, it still prompts the Adobe Reader program. Actually the pdf content is generated on runtime and output through a servlet's output stream (this servlet is written by someone already left), what i did is try to open this servlet url in an iframe. If the iframe src is really a pdf file, it really works. But now the url is a servlet that output a pdf, is there anything special needed to do in the servlet in order to fulfill my requirement?

Answer 1

i'm a bit confused...sounds like you don't like the adobe reader welcome screen poping up....or perhaps even the quick buttons that would surround the document. i believe these are unavoidable.
It also sounds like you have a servlet that returns a application/pdf mime type. ( or is at least capable of) you should be able to mark that as the source of your iframe and have no issues. i personally don't use a servlet...i use a jsp...its very easy...here's the code:
<%
     response.setContentType("application/pdf");
     MyDataBean db = new MyDataBean();
     try {
          /* pass parameters and outstream for return */ 
          db.generatePDFFile( request, response.getOutputStream());
     } catch ( Exception e ) {
          response.setContentType("text/html");
          out.print( "there was a problem with your request..." );
%>gl, hope that helps.