I needto put a PDF file to be viewed on the web. Whats the best way to do this? for example. its a magazine being made and he wants people to see the exact PDF on the web by the click of a button.
yea i know i can use that and it is my fall back option but i wanted to see if it can be done inhouse and with a code of our own.
Why not just link to the PDF directly? On the page with the link you can put the PDF icon next to the link along with the filesize. Somewhere near that you should include the badge to get Acrobat reader.
The point of a PDF is to be portable. Anyone on any OS can view a PDF. Just link to the PDF, no need in wasting time converting it to text.
Yup ... most people should have Adobe Reader. . . so you can just link to the file and say view PDF and they will download it and open it. But you want it to be in the website, the coding for that will be too time consuming IMO for a single PDF. I would suggesting using something like scribd if you really want it in your site. Skinny
Even if you don't have adobe reader, which I don't use because it's bloated and slow. Every OS comes with some type of PDF viewer. PDF is an open standard. I use Foxit on Windows, Preview on OS X, and Evince on Linux. But anyway, an alternative to Scribd.com is http://www.docstoc.com/
If it absolutely HAS to be part of the normal site page, you might be able to use frames (ewww!) or link into a iframe.