Hi I am trying to display a pdf that is in a browse disabled folder on my web server.

Using an FSO Text Stream I can display a text file that is located in the same folder but when I try the pdf it displays it but it doesnt recognise it as a pdf and tries to display text so you get jibberish.

Can anyone advise how to tell the FSO to display it as a PDF. 

Cheers Chattan

yeah, you can't...

PDF is not plain text, so FSO Text Stream won't show anything but the compiled "jibberish"

you'll have to use a DataStream to push it to the client.....

just remember for down the road that the FSO Text stuff will read any file just like it was opened up in Notepad...

so jibberish in Notepad = jibberish to FSO.Text stuff

Ive only been playing with fso for the last week so its all new to me . I managed to get it to work using the following code.

<%
 Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"
 
 strFilePath = "c:/folder/file"
 
 Dim oStream
 Set oStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")

 oStream.Open
 oStream.Type = 1 'adTypeBinary
 
 oStream.LoadFromFile strFilePath
 
 varPdf = oStream.Read

 Response.BinaryWrite( varPdf )
 
 oStream.Close
 Set oStream = Nothing
%>

Know I just need to carry the link name into the fso so it knows which file to display that way I wont have to create a fso page for every indervidual pdf.

Thanks for your help.

Chattan wrote: Know I just need to carry the link name into the fso so it knows which file to display that way I wont have to create a fso page for every indervidual pdf.

is that a question or statement? lol

if its a question:

strFilePath = "c:\folder\file\" & Request.QueryString("FileName")

also might want to make sure the file exists, otherwise FSO will cough out an error

Set FSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If FSO.FileExists( strFilePath  ) Then
    oStream.LoadFromFile strFilePath
    varPdf = oStream.Read
    Response.BinaryWrite( varPdf )
Else
    'Some sort of error handling here
End If
Set FSO = Nothing