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15 June 2006 Testing PDF Objects
More and more websites have features that take you to a PDF file -- the .PDF file suffix is the indicator for such a file. We often hear from users, "How do I record and/or validate information when there's a PDF page in my browser window?"

Remember, the eValid engine is optimized for testing and analysis of web pages, and while PDF pages do show up in the browser, PDF pages are actually interpreted by the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Because of this, they are "opaque" to eValid's ability to dig into the page. The implication is that testing of PDF pages has to proceed by a slightly different route than normally used for HTML-type pages. Here is a writeup on PDF File Recording that gives you the answers on how to do this.