How to Upload a PDF to a Website
A Portable Document Format (PDF) is type of file that typically contains a text-heavy piece of content, such as a document or a brochure. As a manager of a website or blog, using PDF is advantageous over Word documents since they are accessible to anyone with a free and common PDF reader like Adobe Reader--unlike a Word document, for which the user will need to have Word installed on the computer. To link to a PDF is an extremely simple process.
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Instructions
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Copy the PDF file onto your file management system. In some cases, this means dragging a copy of the PDF into a directory folder on your site. For example, if your site is www.linkpdf.com and you want to put a PDF on your content page (http://www.linkpdf.com/content), then you move it to your /content/ folder.
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Note the link that it creates when you copy the PDF onto your site. For example, in the example in Step 1, if your PDF is named coolpage.pdf, then thelink that will point users to that PDF will likely be http://www.linkpdf.com/content/coolpage.pdf.
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Open your Web page in the HTML editor where you want to put the PDF. Find the text, button or image that you want to link and highlight it.
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Click on or activate your hyperlink tool. In several HTML programs, the icon for this tool is a small chain with a one or two links or a small sphere that looks like a globe.
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Put the URL that you created in Step 2 in the field that asks for the link location. For instance, if your link is http://www.linkpdf.com/content/coolpage.pdf, put the entire URL in the field and close the tool.
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Find the text, button or image where you want the link in your code if you are working directly in the HTML. Type "<a href="(URL created in Step 2)">(content to be linked)</a>" (without the quotes). For instance, if your URL is "http://www.linkpdf.com/content/coolpage.pdf" and the text to link is "Cool Page," then your code will be: <a href="http://www.linkpdf.com/content/coolpage.pdf">Cool Page</a> .
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Save and publish the page that you just edited with your new PDF link.
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