Really surpised that the dialog does not provide a way to open the pdf directly in a PDF reader.

The dialog is just the typical Windows Save As dialog. It looks like it hasn't picked up the PDF mime type.

I think it would be best to save the file to a temp directory, or a download directory, and to follow up the file writing with ShellExecute(0, 0, L"FILE_URI", 0, 0 , SW_SHOW );

@cjohnsto-nz Which exact zim file and article do you test with?

http://x3200.media/kelson.zim

Go to page Pro C9100/9110 and click the Point to Point Diagram link.

It's a Mediawiki I've drafted as a POC for a knowledgebase, dumped to .zim with mwoffliner.

Mime-type seems correct, so yes we have an improvement potential here:

path: I/M205_m238_ptop.pdf
»       title:           M205_m238_ptop.pdf
»       idx:             46
»       type:            item
»       mime-type:       application/pdf
»       item size:    2171551

@asashnov @juuz0 Do you know if Qt provides a way to open a known (by the OS) mime-type by an installed application, before offering the opportunity to save the file to the fs?

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdesktopservices.html I think?

http://x3200.media/kelson.zim

This is not available anymore though, cant test

Oops. Moved the web server. It should be there again now.

@juuz0 sure? The file is still there for me.

There is a zim with pdf and epub content here as well http://download.kiwix.org/zim/other/lesbelleshistoires_fr_2020-05.zim

@juuz0 Does your code test has been conclusive?

@kelson42 I can reproduce the issue, yes. But haven't figured out a way yet. Will see again

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Added a PR, that downloads the pdf file in the downloads directory and opens it using the pdf reader.