I know there have been some posts about this but none seem to suggest a working answer.
I'd like to be able to write a documents body directly to the browser and set the content type so that the contents are treated correctly by the browser.
So far I have for an image:-
apex:
public string theBody {get; set;}
public const(){
Document d = [select body from document limit 1];
theBody = d.EncodingUtil.base64encode(d.body);
VF:
...
<img src="data:image/jpeg:base64, {!theBody}"/>
...
Which works ok.
For a document e.g. application/msword this approach won't work.
I have tried writing out the body directly and body.toString() but none work (even with setting the contentType correctly). If the contentType is set then word just decides to open the data as text inside the document.
