Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:29 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Nigel Henry
<cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:

I was trying to read an online tool catalogue, and noticed a PDF button at the
bottom of the webpage. Clicked on it, and it opened the dialog box to
download. What has been downloaded though is a .php script (27.3MB).

The properties shows that it contains a pdf document, but I've no idea how to
run it, open it, or whatever needs to be done, to get to see the PDF.

Any suggestions folks.

Try to rename it:
mv FILE_NAME.php FILE_NAME.pdf
and open it with Evince
Athmane Madjoudj


No need to rename it, just run
	$ evince FILE_NAME.php

Of course
	$ file FILE_NAME.php
will always give you a reasonable guess about what the file format
really is.

jon

What you may have is a PHP page that contains a link to, or an embedded, PDF document.

Open the file with a text editor and see if you get PHP code. If you do, then just extract the PDF or the link.

If you can't read it, you may just have a PDF file with the wrong extension and just have to rename it.

If the renamed file does not open with a PDF reader, you probably have a compiled PHP file (used to secure PHP pages as it purportedly prevents people from pilfering PHP products <deep breath>). In this case you will have to view the file in a browser and hope it doesn't contain anything malicious. Do it as an unprivileged user to be safe.

Cheers,

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Paul