Combining ideas from both of you, I now have this (putting the file in a directory above the docroot so Apache can't serve it.): 
$r->content_type('application/pdf');
$r->err_headers_out->add('Content-disposition' => ("attachment; filena
+me=$filename"));

my $fh;
open($fh,"</var/www/eddie/owner_release.pdf");
binmode $fh;
while(<$fh>) { $m->print($_); }
close $fh;
return;

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And I get the same error message from Acrobat about the file being damaged. I do notice that the file is larger now than it should be. 14K -> 25K. Any other suggestions?

In reply to Re^2: File download from BLOB by wolfie7873
in thread File download from BLOB by wolfie7873

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