<p>I am developing a Joomla component and one of the views needs to render itself as PDF. In the view, I have tried setting the content-type with the following line, but when I see the response, it is text/html anyways.</p>

<pre><code>header('Content-type: application/pdf');
</code></pre>

<p>If I do this in a regular php page, everything works as expected. It seems that I need to tell Joomla to use application/pdf instead of text/html. How can I do it?</p>

<p>Note: Setting other headers, such as <code>Content-Disposition</code>, works as expected.</p>

Since version 1.5 Joomla has the JDocument object. Use
JDocument::setMimeEncoding()
to set the content type.
```
```
$doc =& JFactory::getDocument();
$doc->setMimeEncoding('application/pdf');
```
```
In your special case, a look at
JDocumentPDF
may be worthwile.