Solve : PDF download - how to stop???

1.	Solve : PDF download - how to stop???
Answer» I want to browse a very long document which is in PDF format. The website with this document has a box with "View/download PDF", and I presumed that the option was to view, and if required, to download. When I click this box the opening page duly appears - with a box in the right hand corner of the screen showing a download record bar with the download apparently in full swing. I don't want this download, but I can't figure out how to stop it except to exit the website. Any suggestions please?I should have said - I have Adobe Reader 8 and Windows XP SP2Just out of curiosity, why are you not wanting it to download? If you're worried about space on your computer you could always download it and just delete it when you are FINISHED with it. Or is there another reason you don't want to download it?Thanks for your interest beanhead07 - I have no special reason for not downloading, and I did think of just doing that. The document concerned is a translation of a historical document and, as I said, is very long (3 parts and some 1600 pages, total file size 70 mb), and I just thought it rather excessive for the sake of looking at a few pages. I've not come across this seemingly AUTOMATIC and immediate download feature before.Wow, that is a huge file, I understand why you don't want to download it just to see a few pages. So when you click on the link to download it it doesn't even come up with a window with options to "view" or "download"? It just starts downloading? If you right click on the link does it give you any different options?Quote from: silkie on July 31, 2007, 01:31:33 AM I've not come across this seemingly automatic and immediate download feature before. Are you saying you've viewed other PDF documents on the Internet where the whole document did not automatically download? Can you give an EXAMPLE? I just looked at a 799 page TAX publication from the IRS website. The entire document downloaded as soon as I displayed it in my browser; I had no control over that.To see it on your screen it has to be downloaded one way or another (no such THING as a free lunch) so it's probably best for you to right click and save it to your disk then open later with Foxit of course. Google Foxit, you and your computer will be much happier. Yep. Unfortunately, if he only wanted to view the first few pages of a 1600 page document, there's no way to limit the downloading to what's actually needed.Thanks for all replies. soybean - I must admit that I can't recall ever having looked at a PDF file before - I assumed that there would be an option to download. In this case the download started as soon as the page displayed, as in your own example, with no control. I gather from what you've said that this is the way PDF works. Fed - Clicking r or l anywhere on the page brought no response (except the Adobe options). My interest in the document (a facsimile of a 3 volume book: "History of the English", Online Books) is not very serious - curiosity really - and I would have liked to browse. You need to right click on the link to the page to get the options. Don't forget to check out http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.phpQuote from: silkie on July 31, 2007, 05:15:24 PM soybean - I must admit that I can't recall ever having looked at a PDF file before - I assumed that there would be an option to download. In this case the download started as soon as the page displayed, as in your own example, with no control. I gather from what you've said that this is the way PDF works. Right. It's worth noting here that the document you were viewing is an extreme case; it's an extremely large, even for 1600 pages. The 799-page tax document I mentioned was about 3.6MB. The document you were viewing must be heavily laden with graphics or a lot of some type of content that results in much bigger files than only text. If the document you were viewing had a file size in direct proportion to the one I was viewing, it would be about 7.2MB, not 70MB. Fed - Thanks for the tip. I think I've got what you mean - I save the link to disk and then use Foxit to open and download?soybean - Just seen your post, thanks. I'm now wondering if I've got the size right! I'm sure it quoted 26-28 mb for each of the 3 volumes.Quote I think I've got what you mean - I save the link to disk and then use Foxit to open and download? Download and install Foxit and set it as your default PDF viewer or continue using Adobe, either way the following is the same. The Foxit download is tiny. When you left click a PDF LINK using IE it will open the Foxit viewer. When you right click PDF LINK using IE it will give the you option of opening the PDF file or saving it to disk. I always save them to my desktop first. Adobe is bloatware IMHO.Fed - Thanks for that. Always learning something new (bloatware and IMHO)!

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I want to browse a very long document which is in PDF format.

The website with this document has a box with "View/download PDF", and I presumed that the option was to view, and if required, to download. When I click this box the opening page duly appears - with a box in the right hand corner of the screen showing a download record bar with the download apparently in full swing. I don't want this download, but I can't figure out how to stop it except to exit the website.

Any suggestions please?I should have said - I have Adobe Reader 8 and Windows XP SP2Just out of curiosity, why are you not wanting it to download? If you're worried about space on your computer you could always download it and just delete it when you are FINISHED with it. Or is there another reason you don't want to download it?Thanks for your interest beanhead07 -

I have no special reason for not downloading, and I did think of just doing that. The document concerned is a translation of a historical document and, as I said, is very long (3 parts and some 1600 pages, total file size 70 mb), and I just thought it rather excessive for the sake of looking at a few pages.

I've not come across this seemingly AUTOMATIC and immediate download feature before.Wow, that is a huge file, I understand why you don't want to download it just to see a few pages. So when you click on the link to download it it doesn't even come up with a window with options to "view" or "download"? It just starts downloading? If you right click on the link does it give you any different options?Quote from: silkie on July 31, 2007, 01:31:33 AM

I've not come across this seemingly automatic and immediate download feature before.

Are you saying you've viewed other PDF documents on the Internet where the whole document did not automatically download? Can you give an EXAMPLE? I just looked at a 799 page TAX publication from the IRS website. The entire document downloaded as soon as I displayed it in my browser; I had no control over that.To see it on your screen it has to be downloaded one way or another (no such THING as a free lunch) so it's probably best for you to right click and save it to your disk then open later with Foxit of course.
Google Foxit, you and your computer will be much happier. Yep. Unfortunately, if he only wanted to view the first few pages of a 1600 page document, there's no way to limit the downloading to what's actually needed.Thanks for all replies.

soybean -
I must admit that I can't recall ever having looked at a PDF file before - I assumed that there would be an option to download. In this case the download started as soon as the page displayed, as in your own example, with no control. I gather from what you've said that this is the way PDF works.

Fed -
Clicking r or l anywhere on the page brought no response (except the Adobe options).

My interest in the document (a facsimile of a 3 volume book: "History of the English", Online Books) is not very serious - curiosity really - and I would have liked to browse.

You need to right click on the link to the page to get the options.
Don't forget to check out http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.phpQuote from: silkie on July 31, 2007, 05:15:24 PM

soybean -
I must admit that I can't recall ever having looked at a PDF file before - I assumed that there would be an option to download. In this case the download started as soon as the page displayed, as in your own example, with no control. I gather from what you've said that this is the way PDF works.

Right. It's worth noting here that the document you were viewing is an extreme case; it's an extremely large, even for 1600 pages. The 799-page tax document I mentioned was about 3.6MB. The document you were viewing must be heavily laden with graphics or a lot of some type of content that results in much bigger files than only text. If the document you were viewing had a file size in direct proportion to the one I was viewing, it would be about 7.2MB, not 70MB.

Fed -
Thanks for the tip.
I think I've got what you mean - I save the link to disk and then use Foxit to open and download?soybean -
Just seen your post, thanks.

I'm now wondering if I've got the size right! I'm sure it quoted 26-28 mb for each of the 3 volumes.Quote

I think I've got what you mean - I save the link to disk and then use Foxit to open and download?

Download and install Foxit and set it as your default PDF viewer or continue using Adobe, either way the following is the same.
The Foxit download is tiny.

When you left click a PDF LINK using IE it will open the Foxit viewer.
When you right click PDF LINK using IE it will give the you option of opening the PDF file or saving it to disk.
I always save them to my desktop first.

Adobe is bloatware IMHO.Fed -
Thanks for that.

Always learning something new (bloatware and IMHO)!

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