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I am trying to build a PDF file out of a binary stream which I receive as a response from an Ajax request. Via XmlHttpRequest I receive the following data: %PDF-1.4.... ..... ....hole data representing the file .... %% EOF What I tried so far was to embed my data via data:uri . Now, there's nothing wrong with it and it works fine. Unfortunately, it does not work in IE9 and Firefox. A possible reason may be that FF and IE9 have their problems with this usage of the data-uri . Now, I'm looking for any solution that works for all browsers. Here's my code: // responseText encoding pdfText = $.base64.decode($.trim(pdfText)); // Now pdfText contains %PDF-1.4 ...... data...... %%EOF var winlogicalname = "detailPDF"; var winparams = 'dependent=yes,locationbar=no,scrollbars=yes,menubar=yes,'+ 'resizable,screenX=50,screenY=50,width=850,height=1050'; var htmlText = '<embed width=100% height=100%' + ' type="application/pdf"' + ' src="data:application/pdf,' + escape(pdfText) + '"></embed>'; // Open PDF in new browser window var detailWindow = window.open ("", winlogicalname, winparams); detailWindow.document.write(htmlText); detailWindow.document.close(); As I have said, it works fine with Opera and Chrome (Safari hasn't been tested). Using IE or FF will bring up a blank new window. Is there any solution like building a PDF file on a file system in order to let the user download it? I need the solution that works in all browsers, at least in IE, FF, Opera, Chrome and Safari. I have no permission to edit the web-service implementation. So it had to be a solution at client-side. Any ideas?

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