Dreamweaver - Create a link to PDF

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Create a link to PDF

Jonamur

2006-02-12, 6:43 pm

I am trying to add a link from my home page to a PDF file. The PDF file has
been put in the same folder where all the other links are stored. Those other
links can be seen from Dreamweaver, but the new PDF file cannot, and so the
link will not happen. What do I have to do to correct this?

Tim G

2006-02-12, 6:43 pm

"Jonamur" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dsllcs$3hf$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I am trying to add a link from my home page to a PDF file. The PDF file has
> been put in the same folder where all the other links are stored. Those
> other
> links can be seen from Dreamweaver, but the new PDF file cannot,

Have you tried? From Insert > Hyperlink, I can see my pdfs.

tim

Helpful Harry

2006-02-12, 6:43 pm

In article <dsllcs$3hf$1@forums.macromedia.com>, "Jonamur"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> I am trying to add a link from my home page to a PDF file. The PDF file has
> been put in the same folder where all the other links are stored. Those other
> links can be seen from Dreamweaver, but the new PDF file cannot, and so the
> link will not happen. What do I have to do to correct this?

There shouldn't be any great trick to it, just the usual type of link /
URL along the lines of:

http://MyDomainName/MyFile.PDF

or since it's in the same folder just:

MyFile.pdf

As long as the person visiting has the PDF Reader plug-in it will work.

Make sure it has .pdf on the end of the filename so that Windows and
Mac OS X knows that it is a PDF document.

One thing to be careful of is strange characters in the filename.
Things like these can often cause problems: spaces, commas, fullstops /
periods, colons, semi-colons, / or \ slashes, quote marks, etc. Try to
stick to normal letters and numbers with hypens or underscores if need
be. This is also true for the names of your HTML pages, images and
anything else you're linking to.

Helpful Harry
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