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(a)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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