Barrie:

There is a similar problem with older versions of Firefox  (I don't recall 
which releases, but it crosses http and https) and PDFs that are greater than 
5MB.   That's something that we encountered at Cornell University.

One thing you may want to consider is setting the "Content Inline Disposition 
Threshold" in the dspace.cfg to force the users to download the bitstream 
instead of viewing it inline.  That wouldn't fix your problem, but at least the 
content would be available to anyone no matter what browser they are using.  

At Cornell University we have set this value to:
webui.content_disposition_threshold = 5000000
xmlui.content_disposition_threshold = 5000000

so that anyone trying to view a PDF greater than 5MB gets a message asking them 
if they want to view the item or download it.

You could set that  number lower to handle all your PDFs.  I know that's not a 
perfect situation, but it could give you a temporary workaround until some 
better solution comes up.

Best wishes

George Kozak
Digital Library Specialist
Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT)
501 Olin Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-8924


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I dont seem to be getting any feedback.

I presume nobody has experienced this yet?

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