Auto Download PDF

I have a PDF file that I am trying to link to and I need to have visitors automatically download it instead of it opening inside the browser. Is there a way to do this without zipping it.

I was thinking that there may be some php headers or something that will do it. I can pre-make it into a pdf, or I can generate one in php on the fly, if it matters.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Here's a copy and paste of a section from http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/4906 :

Using the Content-Disposition header correctly should force IE and
other
browsers to treat the file as an attachment/download. I do it all the
time. Make sure you specify attachment as the type. ex:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.pdf"

Obviously this is easiest if you are dynamically outputing the contents
of the PDF from a server script script (like Perl, PHP, ASP, etc).


So yeah, have a sniff around the content disposition header...

 

That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks a bunch.

 

Ok, I found a way to do it within php. Works well in Mozilla and IE.

   header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
   header("Content-Length: $file-size");
   header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
   header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file-name");
   header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

PHP: