Opening linked PDFs works in Chrome, not in IE

[Matt]

I was an avid user of classic but on hiatus for a while and recently decided to upgrade.  Sadly, I'm so far out of date that I have to recreate my little personal wiki.  This is just something I use to keep my engineering documentation, recommendations, tips and tricks, etc. collected in one place.

One of the big advantages is linking to a file, such as a PDF.

Using the latest version, I have this link set up in a tiddler.  When I click it after opening the wiki in IE (ver. 11.0.31), nothing happens.  The PDF does not open.  But when I open the file in Chrome, the link works and the PDF pops right open.  I specified the tiddler type as "TiddlyWiki 5".

I installed the TiddlyIE Helper extension as instructed on the home page.  I've tried this both with and without the Adobe Toolbar/Helper/Create extensions enabled and disabled with no change.

Thoughts?

Here's the link:

[[API 6D|file:///C:\OneDrive\Work\!Engineering Calcs\Standards\API\API SPEC 6D.pdf]] - Specification for Pipeline Valves

See any syntax issues?

Thank you for your help!

-Matt

[RichardWilliamSmith]

Hi Matt.

In my experience it is likely to be an issue with IE itself and how it is set to handle pdfs. Not being an IE user, though, I'm afraid I can't tell you where the setting is. Can you open PDFs from other places with it? 

I assume that you are using the latest version of IE? (and you are compelled to use this instead of a more reliable browser?)

Regards,

Richard

[Matt]

I'm pretty sure it's the latest version, version 11.

Yup, went to a vendor website and IE 11 opens PDFs just fine.

Any other suggestions?  Thanks for responding.  There's a lot of high level stuff going on in this forum.  I feel kinda sheepish posting this question, heh.

[RichardWilliamSmith]

Hi Matt,

No, don't feel sheepish for posting your questions - tbh, we should probably be using the dev channel for some of the recent discussions here.

The long and short of it is that if it works in chrome (and your syntax appears to be correct) then there's some issue with the way ie is set to handle locally stored pdfs. If you enter the address for your pdf manually into the address bar (file:///C:\OneDrive\Work\!Engineering Calcs\Standards\API\API SPEC 6D.pdf) what does it do?

You could try making a simple file with just a regular html link, like this 

<a href="file:///C:\OneDrive\Work\!Engineering Calcs\Standards\API\API SPEC 6D.pdf">open file</a> 

save it with the .html extension and see if that works.

Regard,

Richard

[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi folks!

Just a quick guess: I noticed spaces in the document name … maybe a problem for ie?

Good luck!
Thomas