Opening PDFs from an email?
 

Using Outlook Web Access to check email and I'll often get PDFs that I'll want to read on the N800. When I try to open the attachment it prompts me to save it to memory somewhere. When I do this it doesn't save in a way that the system recognizes it as a PDF. If I try to open it it will open in a web browser and not be readable.

If I first save the file to a desktop computer and then transfer to the N800 using USB the file opens up fine with the default PDF Reader. (I haven't downloaded Evince yet, although I've heard it is better, hopefully will get to that soon)

So is there an easy way to open PDFs from an email attachment without having to get another machine involved?

Thanks much.

Dylan

Re: Opening PDFs from an email?
 

So as a way of a thread bump here...just wondering if no responses means that no one else has seen this issue...or people have seen this, but don't know of a work around?

Has anyone been able to open a PDF on the N800 from any webmail based program (or from the built in email client)?

Re: Opening PDFs from an email?
 

From GMail, all the time. I expect your problem is specific to Outlook Web Access.

Re: Opening PDFs from an email?
 

Thanks I'll see if forwarding them to a gmail account works.

Re: Opening PDFs from an email?
 

I have no problems opening pdf files with Outlook Web Access
and N800 OS2008 PDF reader.
When I tap the pdf-file attachment link in OWA
I get File download dialogue:

Name: pdf-file-name-is-here.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: unknown
Address: https://pathtomyexchangefolder...
Open with: PDF reader

Below that are Open, Save and Cancel buttons.

When I tap Open button PDF reader opens the pdf file
(no Evince here).

It just works.

Re: Opening PDFs from an email?
 

Seconded. I've just tested this with my employer's OWA server, and it worked just as lsm wrote.

Re: Opening PDFs from an email?
 

So I just tested again with a new PDF. When I click on the attachment link I get a JavaScript alert:

Could this be something weird with how my IT department set up OWA?

Re: Opening PDFs from an email?
 

So I disabled Java Script on the N800, and then clicked on the link. A new browser window opened, and then I was prompted with the download window. The open option was greyed out, but I tried to save and then navigate to this file. The system now recognizes this as a PDF file and it opened just fine.

Thanks all.