PDF Problems

loucosmic · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

Hope someone is able to help me as this is out of my capabilities and it's driving me to frustration now!

I have a pdf file which when I view it, it enables me to adjust the size of the % size of the page - I want to put the file on my website like this so that when people click on the picture it takes them through to adobe and allows them to enlarge the % size to read the full article. See an example here http://www.harvestblues.ie/Home - the newspaper article at the bottom.

I have tried to achieve this idea on my website but have failed as you can see by looking here
http://www.smokinhogs.com/press-and-reviews/ The text is too small and it only links back to Photobucket when clicked.

Any ideas how I can get this working?

Many thanks,

Lou

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4289 Location: MS

The article is an image and it does link to:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v58/ladycosmic/?action=view%EF%BF%BDt=northernstandard.png

Which is also an image. It is not a link to your pdf file. Isn't that what you want? The link back to PhotoBucket is just their error page.

Standard links:

Making an image a link:

loucosmic · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

I didn't want the article as an image at all - how I have done it on my website is my failed attempt at getting it to work.

I wanted to do it exactly as they have done on http://www.harvestblues.ie/Home so that you see a small version of the article on the webpage and then you click on it to view it larger and read the text.

I tried hosting the pdf on line, changing it to flash etc but nothing I do gets close to what I'm trying to achieve! I am fine with adding jpeg files etc to my website but have never done a pdf before.

loucosmic · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

And apologies, I meant to say thankyou for taking the time to reply to me.

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4289 Location: MS

Well, you can't have the PDF file displayed to read directly from a web page. It has to be read with the Adobe Reader so it must remain as a PDF file. Now, if you want it readable online without using Adobe's Reader, then you can convert the PDF to an html file and put it in an iFrame properly sized. Is this something you may want to do?

loucosmic · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

Yes, that sounds like it might be what I want to do - how would I go about doing that please?

loucosmic · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

Ok, so I have found out that the code that achieves this http://www.harvestblues.ie/Home&search=2009lineup is

<a href="/f/2009lineup/northern standard.pdf">download a pdf here<br />

</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="/f/2009lineup/northern standard.pdf"><img width="257" height="306" src="/f/2009lineup/northern.png" alt="" /></a></p></div>

So how do I now do the same on my own website - I am confused as to where I need to save the file in order to link to it....help!!

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4289 Location: MS

loucosmic · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

Sorry to be so awkward but what I am still getting confused about is where you host or save the PDF - from other posts I have read I know it can't be saved and linked from the hard drive path but have no idea where I should be putting it to great the URL link.

loucosmic · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

I have managed to work out the bit where you display the small picture on the website but still can't get it to open in adove when I click on it as it is just the where to host the PDF file I don't understand now

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4289 Location: MS