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Downloading a pdf file, saving it, won't show the full name of the saving file when the name contains a space, stopping the file name.

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Downloading a pdf file, the name of the file contains a space in the middle of the file. The name showing on the 'Save' popup is the first few letters up to the space. Works fine on IE8. For instance, a file named "old snail_12345.pdf" would only show "old" (ignore the "s). This is on Firefox 30.0, WinXP Pro.

Downloading a pdf file, the name of the file contains a space in the middle of the file. The name showing on the 'Save' popup is the first few letters up to the space. Works fine on IE8. For instance, a file named "old snail_12345.pdf" would only show "old" (ignore the "s). This is on Firefox 30.0, WinXP Pro.

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Apparently there is an extension to work around this. I haven't tried it myself. See:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Filenames_with_spaces_are_truncated_upon_download

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Is this a problem when you are viewing the file in Firefox's built-in PDF Viewer and using its download button, or when you are using a download button in a web page?

I've seen this problem occur when the server is pushing a different file name than the actual file name (for example, the file name is pdf.asp?id=12345 but the server is sending the name Annual Report.pdf in the headers sent with the file). I'm not aware of a workaround for the user, but for what it's worth, it is easy to fix on the server by replacing the spaces with %20 (the standard substitution used in web addresses).

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No, its not that. If you know Charter Communications MyAccount, you can download a pdf of your current statement and the name has a space in it. That 'Click' goes to what looks like is a Windows 'Save" PopUp routine with the filename and where to save it. Under Internet Explorer, the name is completely showing, including a space in the file name. Under the Firefox, only the first few letters showing, up to the space. I've used that routine in C++ a decade ago myself, but I don't know why its parsed differently.

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I don't know if this will help.

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I tried your pdf-download addon, but ,sorry, didn't fix to problem. I don't think that the .pdf is the problem, but the parsing of any file Save. Thanks, I've been printing a web page with CutePDF. I'll check out the Web-to-PDF.

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Apparently there is an extension to work around this. I haven't tried it myself. See:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Filenames_with_spaces_are_truncated_upon_download

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Thanks very much. The truncfix worked and saved the file's full name with the space.