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fayrehouse
Frequent Contributor
12 years ago

Bit of an outside hope for help here (and not directly TC related per se, but...)

Hi All, I won't go into the details of WHY I need to achieve the following here, but: We have a web app under test, that contains a number of links that open PDF docs. I have existing TC...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    12 years ago
    Hi Steve,



    Just a quick idea: what if you will not click the link (well, all at all you are not testing that the given browser opens pdf reader when you click the link that references pdf file, are you?), but instead:

    a) (Optionally) analyse that the link has correct structure (this is to be on the safe side and guarantee (more or less) that for the correctly set browser the pdf reader should be opened);

    b) Download and save to the disk file from the link (http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/8999/)

    c) Explicitly start Adobe Reader from your test code;

    d) Open saved file in Adobe Reader;

    e) Proceed with your existing code :)



    Thoughts?
hlalumiere's avatar
hlalumiere
Regular Contributor
12 years ago
You don't actually need to download the file manually before opening it in AcroRead. You can feed Acrobat Reader an URI directly! Although for some reason this doesn't work from the command line. If however you open up AcroRead, press Ctrl-O and type in the web address, the file will download silently and show up when it`s done. I think this also works with FoxIt reader.