On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:13:22AM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 21:29, 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.
Nigel.
Try to rename it:
mv FILE_NAME.php FILE_NAME.pdf
and open it with Evince
Renaming it has done the job, and it has opened with no problems.
Many thanks.
Nigel.
There is a simple way to check a file to see if it really is a pdf. Open it in a text editor. If the first four characters are '%pdf', then it is safe to rename it.
On unix-like systems the offical method is to do:
file filename
see "man file".
These first four bytes are the magic number in Unix based systems. This is a much more reliable and flexible way to mark files with a type than the extensions used by Microsoft. I believe the 'type' command will also tell you what this marker means. i.e. 'type FILE_NAME.php'.
Bob McConnell N2SPP
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