On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:32:09 -0800 (PST), "Tom Rux - tmr0195 at comcast.net
(via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance Traveller:

>Hello again Jeff Zeitlin,
>
>I click on the usual download link. The file downloads and opens the
>magazine in my Firefox browser which has I believe a icon for google drive
>in the browser window. The document shows as a PDF which the icons for
>downloading and printing. Opening the file in Acrobat Reader the save
>button is grayed out. The buttons one that looks like a cloud with an
>upward pointing and print are active.

OK, this appears to be a change in the way Google Drive handles things.
Instead of directly downloading (which is what I recall as the behavior of
the links it produced), it opens the document in the Google Drive PDF
Viewer. Once it's open, you can use File > Download, or click the Download
icon in the toolbar (looks like a downward pointing arrow sitting in a
squared-off 'U' shape, or a '[' rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise). That
will initiate the download. I've tried this in Chrome, in Edge, and in
FireFox (all on Windows); in FireFox, it will both download and open it in
the _Firefox_ built-in PDF viewer; in Edge and Chrome it will simply invoke
the default download behavior (on my system, Chrome just saves it in the
Downloads folder; Edge prompts for a location).

If you open the link directly in Adobe Reader, try "Save As..." instead of
just the "Save" button; Adobe defaults to trying to save to the same place
it was opened from, which you DO NOT have permission to do.

Note that this is a Drive function, not a change in the link, or in the
PDFs - if you go back to the older issues, the behavior will be the same.
I've been using Affinity Publisher for a few issues now, and this is the
first time there's been a report of a problem; neither earlier
Affinity-generated PDFs nor Microsoft-generated PDFs from before the switch
exhibited the behavior being reported here.

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