Rather than open a pdf in a browser window albeit the same window or a popup, I prefer that a pdf is either saved to the filesystem or opened by a program external to the browser like Acrobat reader. This behaviour depends on what headers the webserver responds with.
In php you can serve a file with: header("Content-type: application/pdf"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment"); readfile('test.pdf'); this will usually cause the browser to ask whether to save to disk or select a program to open the file with. If you use the following it will load the pdf viewer into the browser window: header("Content-type: application/pdf"); header("Content-Disposition: inline"); readfile('test.pdf'); So I'd recommend a link with a pdf icon and the file size and then set the headers as in the first example Chris Knowles ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************