# Open a link to launch  PDF

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/open-a-link-to-launch-pdf/22918>\
**Category:** SLED Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [August 1, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-a-link-to-launch-pdf/22918 "2012-08-01T23:53:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![scottjsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@scottjsn](https://forums.suse.com/u/scottjsn)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-a-link-to-launch-pdf/22918/1 "2012-08-01T23:53:16Z")

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A link references a PDF file. When tried to launch it, the opened page was blank.

Example: [http://ftp.novell.com/partners/oracle/docs/11gR2\_sles11\_install.pdf](http://ftp.novell.com/partners/oracle/docs/11gR2_sles11_install.pdf)

What could be wrong?

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-a-link-to-launch-pdf/22918/2 "2012-08-02T00:40:52Z")

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> [@scottjsn](#):
>
> A link references a PDF file. When tried to launch it, the opened page  
> was blank.
> 
> Example:  
> [http://ftp.novell.com/partners/oracle/docs/11gR2\_sles11\_install.pdf](http://ftp.novell.com/partners/oracle/docs/11gR2_sles11_install.pdf)
> 
> What could be wrong?

Hi  
Might be something to do with the actual file, do you have the actual  
url that links to it?

You can get the file with wget and open manually;

```auto
wget -c http://ftp.novell.com/partners/oracle/docs/11gR2_sles11_install.pdf
```

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**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/open-a-link-to-launch-pdf/22918/3 "2012-08-02T00:54:36Z")

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Opens fine for me in Evince, which is what I have Firefox set to do with PDFs by default. I tried letting Firefox use the Adobe Reader plugin and it opened fine in that too.