Open a hyperlink to a pdf file from excel

I inserted a hyperlink to a pdf file in my excel table using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel; write_url() method. But when I want to open the link, it displays the pdf file as text rather than an image. Any ideas of how to o开发者_JAVA技巧pen the link with original pdf image? Thanks.

Your problem sounds very much like the one I posted a couple of days ago - except mine was trying to hyperlink from excel to .jpgs in my website. You click on the Hyperlink and instead of getting an image you get a long page full of characters. This started to happen about March this year. Except it is fine with Firefox and Explorer. I have spent most of my afternoon first with Mac - Safari and then with MS Excel group. Their conclusion is that it is a known bug between XL and Mac and they are still working on it. I uploaded a .PDF to my web site (link is: http://www.hkirbydesigns.com/PIDB/RocknGrass.pdf) and I was able to view the image with firefox but not with Safari - I got the characters with Safari. So, MS said to use a different browser until they have fixed the bug. Hope this is useful.