Question

In my controller I want to open a pdf and stream it to the browser. This code works fine if I don’t use the open parameters. However, I need to use an open parameter like #search=”java” after the filename. Using open parameters works fine if it is a url but is there a way that I can use adobe open parameters to open the file.

Code that I am using is:

private static final String DOCUMENT_LOCATION = "C:\\testPDF\\mytest.pdf#search=" + "\"" + "java" + "\"";


@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET)
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { 

    // set some response headers 
    response.setContentType("application/pdf"); 

    InputStream in = new FileInputStream(DOCUMENT_LOCATION); 
    OutputStream out = response.getOutputStream(); 

    // Copy the bits from instream to outstream 
    byte[] buf = new byte[1024]; 
    int len; 
    while ((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) { 
        out.write(buf, 0, len); 
    } 
    in.close(); 

} 

Answer 1

well it turns out that adobe no longer supports open parameters, so what I ended up doing was passing the search url parameter which opens the search function in Adobe automatically. Unfortunatley this does not work in Firefox only in IE.