PDF & HTML

[piasabird]

On the internet when you go to a link with a Abode PDF file and it just loads up do you have to make a specail web page for that or do you use a link to ***.pdf or what?

I want to save something in the *.pdf format so I can share it, but I want to post it on my website.

[kram 2.0]

To make it a PDF file, you'll need a special program - the best software is of course, the PDF native Adobe Acrobat which costs around 400+ USD. Sometimes, printer softwares with multifunction available, will allow you to export a certain file as a "PDF" as if it's an image. You may want to look around.

kram

[piasabird]

I have a program called Callendar Creator 10, by Broderbund, that I am using to create a Calendar. It can Export the Calendar in PDF. I was just wondering how that works in HTML. If I post it to a web page other people can see it and we can discuss it. It can also export it as HTML but it makes 12 JPEG images and 12 HTML files which a bit of a pain.

[AaronG1980]

One way to do it, is just create the page that you want to display to the world, save it as a PDF. FTP it to your site (or however you transfer files there) and create a hyperlink to that page in a page in your site.

If your site has a sub directory for forms that's seprate from the site directory it would look something like this;
(leave out the ~'s. It's the only way I could show you the actual text)
ex: <~a href="Forms/Calendar.pdf">Calendar<~/a>
Which will display as Calendar

If all your documents are in the same directory leave out the {Forms/} part.

This will open up the pdf document as a new window. If you want to get into using javascript to open it in a designated area of the page, or as a particular sized window you should check out these sites.

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
http://www.devshed.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/

If you want to just use a prefab script you can try using DHTML

http://dynamicdrive.com/

[nubbler]

If you need to make save it in PDF format, you can use openoffice for that. Just click File > Export to PDF.

If you do not have openoffice, let us know

[mairving]

Keep in mind that a pdf is not web friendly since pdf's can get fairly large with graphics. Many things that can be done on a web page don't work well with pdf's like searching, copying text. Unless you had a product manual or a document that needed to be in fixed format, you should use HTML instead. You can also generate pdf documents on the fly using php.