How to view documents within browser without downloading?

[krono9]

Hi, im not a programmer and only have basic skills..

I put together a basic Jquery Mobile website.. all the pages are within one html document.. I have a few links to guides on how to do certain things within our company.... but these guides are either in pdf or docx.... so if you click the link on the webpage..it will download the documents...

I want to know how do i let the user view these documents within the browser without them having to download it?

Basically its an company internal jquery mobile website running from dropbox so that its accessible also from mobile phones externally.. Everything works and looks great.. I just need to sort out the documents from not downloading etc.. Is this possible without running a full hosted webapp and calls etc to a server backend?

 

[Batista]

You set Adobe to display in browser,its a setting within the options.
Any document viewed is downloaded, regardless of where it is viewed.

 

[House]

Hi, im not a programmer and only have basic skills..

I put together a basic Jquery Mobile website.. all the pages are within one html document.. I have a few links to guides on how to do certain things within our company.... but these guides are either in pdf or docx.... so if you click the link on the webpage..it will download the documents...

I want to know how do i let the user view these documents within the browser without them having to download it?

Basically its an company internal jquery mobile website running from dropbox so that its accessible also from mobile phones externally.. Everything works and looks great.. I just need to sort out the documents from not downloading etc.. Is this possible without running a full hosted webapp and calls etc to a server backend?

You may consider this header:

Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Disposition: inline; filename.pdf

Take a look for more information here:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#example-4475

 

[kripstoe]

For PDF you could also look at http://viewerjs.org/

 

[krono9]

and docx? Almost easier printing the docs to images and linking them.. sigh.

 

[krono9]

For PDF you could also look at http://viewerjs.org/

Thanks, works great...

 

[Fudzy]

and docx? Almost easier printing the docs to images and linking them.. sigh.

Sharepoint

 

[kripstoe]

Sharepoint

Overkill to the extreme

 

[w1z4rd]

Open in Word, File -> "Save As" "html" ?

 

[Fudzy]

Overkill to the extreme

What other platform offers Office file viewing then? As per OPs request.

 

[Fudzy]

Open in Word, File -> "Save As" "html" ?

Would be cool if you could get a script to get that when a .docx file is requested.

 

[krono9]

using that viewer.js on iphone works great.. but on android it still downloads the pdf... any suggestions why?

 

[kripstoe]

What other platform offers Office file viewing then? As per OPs request.

docx.js

But I can't really comment on if it works.

On SharePoint I can comment, and it is overkill for what the OP needs.