Viewing PDF files in IE with pop-up windows
I have a web page (see attached) that loads a PDF file in an iframe and also launches a pop-up window in the onload event (via javascript) and then closes that window in the onunload event. If I go from one page that does this to another, or I reload that page the PDF does not display - I just get a blank iframe. This problem does not occur in any version of Adobe Reader begore 9.0 - but appears to happen consistently on multiple machines running Adobe 9.0 or above. If I don't close the window in the onunload event it works fine. Has anyone experienced anything similar - is there any fix for this?
Please try the attached sample: Load the page (view the pdf) then click on the "Refresh this page" link and see what happens - the PDF file should disapear.
Please let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks,
Ami
This sample is just for demonstration purposes - so it might not make a lot of sense to do, but we have a live web site that has a need to pop-up additional details for the PDF file being viewed and we run into this problem where the first PDF works, but when you move from one to the next, the PDF does not display in Adobe 9. If you are running Adobe 9 and you click on the refresh this page link you should get an error or a blank area where the PDF would normally display.
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