PDF Download Problems

[JFro]

Can anyone figure out why the Order Form download on this page works fine, but the Brochure/Pricelist download does not & tries to load as HTML??

These downloads operate using HTML in the text field of fragments, as follows:

Price list (not working)

!!<<span style='font-size: 16px; color: #c10000;'>>!!!!<<strong>>!!!!<<u>>!!
Price List/Brochure
!!<</u>>!!!!<</strong>>!!!!<</span>>!!

!!<<a href="http://www.welshfruitstocks.co.uk/acatalog/GARDEN_2010_11.pdf" type="application/pdf" TARGET="_blank">Click here to download our price list</u> (PDF file).</a>>!!  You can see all of the varieties listed on the website in one place, and print for viewing at your convenience.

Order Form (working)

!!<<span style='font-size: 16px; color: #c10000;'>>!!!!<<strong>>!!!!<<u>>!!
Order Form 
!!<</u>>!!!!<</strong>>!!!!<</span>>!!

!!<<a href="http://www.welshfruitstocks.co.uk/acatalog/ORDER_FORM.pdf" type="application/pdf" TARGET="_blank">Click here to download an order form</u> (PDF file).</a>>!!  You can send your order to us via post, and enclose a cheque for payment. Please provide a contact phone number or an email address.

Thanks!

[guccij]

Possibly the numbers in the first pdf url are confusing things. That's the only difference I can spot.

[leehack]

style=" is what i use, not style=', having said that you're setting it bold, size, color and underlined, do it the best way instead, create a class with those attributes:

.pdfLink {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
color: #c10000;
text-decoration: underline;
}

then apply a class instead, like so:

span class="pdfLink"

instead of all the styling in the code, single place to change the style across the site and much better code. Win win.

I never use the type attribute either.

[Duncan Rounding]

The file is not uploaded.
Put this in your browser and you will see it doesn't work:
http://www.welshfruitstocks.co.uk/ac...EN_2010_11.pdf
Are you sure you have typed it correctly?
If so then try adding the file to the additional files list in Actinic.

[JGLIGHTING]

Hi

Looks to me the PDF is not on your server.

But I maybe wrong

If you open up a PDF that is working and then change the PDF file name to something else in the address bar, its try and load the HTML.

Elliott

[leehack]

LOL, rookie error, good spot Duncan.

[NormanRouxel]

Both links have ummatched </u> tags in them but that's not the problem.

File GARDEN_2010_11.pdf seems to not be a PDF. Check that you don't have a corrupt copy in your Site folder as Actinic may be uploading this by mistake.

Also check that it's really a PDF.


UPDATE: It's more likely to be a missing file. If I look for http://www.welshfruitstocks.co.uk/ac..._2010_1xx1.pdf (I've munged the file name with some x's), I get the same lump of HTML returned.

[Duncan Rounding]

It might be worth setting up 404 error page as well to stop the munged pages.

'munged' - great word, almost as good as 'obfuscation'.