No Download for PDF Reader

danjo13

I go to a PDF URL (like this) on Orion for iOS and I see no overlay to download the PDF, nor an option to save it to files or otherwise download it in the menus.

I would expect to have an option to download the PDF, but I don’t see any.

iOS 18.3.2, Orion 1.3.19

jeanetienne

Hi danjo13, thank your for reporting this issue.

Is what you're after the "Save to files" option in the share sheet?

Let me know if you meant something else.

Cheers!

EDIT:
I can see the option with my test PDF document, but not with the one you linked. We'll investigate further, this is definitely not ideal.

Thank you for your help in making Orion a better browser!

jeanetienne

FYI: danjo13 , Yannick, zaaf, laiz, Sirlaughalot
I've merged 3 conversations about the same issue as I finally found a fix for it today!

Yannick

Hey, You're right.
If it can help you temporarily, you can use this:
Share sheet -> print -> share -> save to files

danjo13

jeanetienne yeah, that’s what I’m looking for. I’m new to Orion so I wasn’t sure if it was an overlay on the PDF or the “Save to Files” option like in Safari. I was trying to download several last night and none of them had either option. Thanks for looking into it!

zaaf

When I download a pdf from my salary website, or from my pension website or from various other websites, on iOS , they open in a new page, but they are not downloaded. This is the same in safari. What safari offers and what Orion lacks is the action to save the pdf to files.

This means I have to use safari to download pdfs like my payslip and my pension statement.

I expected to save the pdf to my iCloud documents folder.

iOS 18.6 Orion 1.3.26 (9) (WebKit 8621.2.5.10.10)

laiz

zaaf
Hey! I believe the team is working on this. The current implementation indeed isn't without problems. You can circumvent this issue by doing the following:

Tap share
Select Print
At the top of the screen, there's another Share button, tap it
Save to Files should now be available

jeanetienne

I am not aware of work in this area, however this rings a bell, and we had a similar issue raised here:
https://orionfeedback.org/d/10605-no-download-for-pdf-reader (I don't fully understand why it got closed).

I had a look and I think I found the root cause of this issue and am working on a fix today.

Thanks zaaf for taking the time to report this bug and for helping make Orion a better browser!

Sirlaughalot

Similar to Safari, I’d like to have the option to save PDFs that I’m viewing thorough Orion. This happens two ways in Safari when the Share button is pressed.

In the list of apps to open the file with (like Messages, Mail…etc) I’d like to see other PDF readers as an option, like the native Books app.
In the list of actions to take I’d like to see a “Save to Files” option.

This is the current list of options I see:

This is the list of options when the same PDF is viewed with Safari:

Arkanjil

I do a lot of downloading, so a thing that sends me back to Safari is a link that uploads a PDF (this should work without an account:
https://ianstrange.itch.io/highland-vice), I get no share option that will save the file: Print repaginates, Capture Page goes into Photos, and Download File downloads the underlying web page (good capture tho)

Id ask for a Save To Share option (and Mark Up would be nice)- it’d go far in getting me to drop Safari once and for all

Keep up the good work

Trey

An additional option in the Share option that allows a Save As option when the current tab page content is PDF/document/image/(audio?/video?) object.

laiz

I am able to reproduce this issue. On Orion, there is no Save to Files option that is present on Safari.

Sirlaughalot

This feature is planned. I submitted something similar last year.

https://orionfeedback.org/d/9038-options-to-save-a-pdf-and-add-it-to-books-app