Force to open “Save As…” popup open at text link click for PDF in HTML

Question

I have some big size PDF catalogs at my website, and I need to link these as download. When I googled, I found such a thing noted below. It should open the \"Save As

Answer 1

Generally it happens, because some browsers settings or plug-ins directly open PDF in the same window like a simple web page.

The following might help you. I have done it in PHP a few years back. But currently I'm not working on that platform.

Error 404: File Not Found: 
$file";
    }
?>

Save the above as download.php.

Save this little snippet as a PHP file somewhere on your server and you can use it to make a file download in the browser, rather than display directly. If you want to serve files other than PDF, remove or edit line 5.

You can use it like so:

Add the following link to your HTML file.

Download the cool PDF.

Reference from: This blog