embedding a pdf in my website

gfargo

I have searched dgrin and pdf just doesn't register. I want to put a PDF in my website so users can access it with a link and download it. Anyone know how?

Thanks,
George

Hikin' Mike

You'll have to use a 3rd party source. Some use DropBox.

jerryr

Hi - Mike is correct - here is an example of what i did for Smugger.
http://www.cindijonesphotography.com/Business-Info

Click on either icon on the page and it will take you to a document on Cindi's google drive.

Hikin' Mike

Just as a side-note, my SmugMug site is a sub-domain. My "main" domain is running WordPress. I can upload files, like PDF's to my main domain. Depending on your hosting company, you may be able to create a sub-domain and upload files there.

Jtring

gfargo wrote: »

I have searched dgrin and pdf just doesn't register. I want to put a PDF in my website so users can access it with a link and download it. Anyone know how?

Thanks,
George

I used the following not-quite-perfect work-around a little while back to put a pair of contractor's drawing for a re-landscaping project up in a gallery along with some associated pictures. The drawings were PDFs representing 11 x 17 printouts. I used pdf2jpg.net to generate JPG versions of the PDFs. I used the 300 dpi setting and got 5100 x 3300 images that came it at just under 1 MB and just over 1.2 MB. They looked pretty good. Lower resolution versions did not. I then uploaded the JPGs to a gallery along with other pictures. Users could then download the JPG created from the PDF. I prefer to keep the gallery in question password protected, so I don't have an example to share.

If you really wanted to point a user to the source PDF, you could create a single photo content block with the sort of JPG described above and set the "action on click" to a URL of some site other than SmugMug that was hosting the PDF.

gfargo

Thanks, Moke

gfargo

Mike

gfargo

jerryr wrote: »

Hi - Mike is correct - here is an example of what i did for Smugger.
http://www.cindijonesphotography.com/Business-Info

Click on either icon on the page and it will take you to a document on Cindi's google drive.

Thanks, great example!

gfargo

Jtring wrote: »

I used the following not-quite-perfect work-around a little while back to put a pair of contractor's drawing for a re-landscaping project up in a gallery along with some associated pictures. The drawings were PDFs representing 11 x 17 printouts. I used pdf2jpg.net to generate JPG versions of the PDFs. I used the 300 dpi setting and got 5100 x 3300 images that came it at just under 1 MB and just over 1.2 MB. They looked pretty good. Lower resolution versions did not. I then uploaded the JPGs to a gallery along with other pictures. Users could then download the JPG created from the PDF. I prefer to keep the gallery in question password protected, so I don't have an example to share.

If you really wanted to point a user to the source PDF, you could create a single photo content block with the sort of JPG described above and set the "action on click" to a URL of some site other than SmugMug that was hosting the PDF.

Thanks, Jim. I was wondering if I could fake it with a jpeg version. I appreciate the instructions.