How can I, as creator, force my pdf file to open as a document instead of in a browser.

Hello

I created a PDF form that I'll put on my Web site.
If my visitors download this file, I want it to be opened in the adobe instead of the browser application.

How can I force this document to do this?

There is nothing you can do to the PDF file to force a web browser to download the file. You can configure the web server to issue some headers that direct browsers to download, but some browsers may ignore and try to view in the browser in any case. Here is a link by chance from a discussion on the idea: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2598658/how-to-force-a-pdf-download-automatically

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