How To Let Viewer Download a PDF File?

[Bell Atlantic]

I have a website with an Adobe Reader .pdf file stored on the web host. I
want to display on a page: "Click here to download the file in .pdf format".
When the viewer clicks on this message the .pdf file will be downloaded to
his computer. How do I implement this in FrontPage?

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

If you want it to download rather than be displayed in viewer's browser
window (if the user has Acrobat), then just .zip it up instead of having it
as a pdf...of course the user will have to unzip it to view it...and will
still need Acrobat.


|I have a website with an Adobe Reader .pdf file stored on the web host. I
| want to display on a page: "Click here to download the file in .pdf
format".
| When the viewer clicks on this message the .pdf file will be downloaded to
| his computer. How do I implement this in FrontPage?
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[JCO]

Bell,
The problem with that is this. If the user has a pdf read installed on
their system, then the pdf file will open on their screen. After creating a
link to the pdf file, you can set the "Target" as "new". This will force a
new browser to pop open. That way, your website is still open in the
background. Once the pdf is open, the pdf reader has a button on the top
left corner so that the user can save the file to their computer.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

See reply to your duplicate post in the addins newsgroup.
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|I have a website with an Adobe Reader .pdf file stored on the web host. I
| want to display on a page: "Click here to download the file in .pdf
format".
| When the viewer clicks on this message the .pdf file will be downloaded to
| his computer. How do I implement this in FrontPage?
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[Guest]

Yeah, you could still put the urls of the PDF files, but save a space
somewhere on the page so people could download the software. I did that many
times. There is no way we could embed the files yet. Unless, you are talking
about embedding frames of those files? Sounds weird too.

Alice.

 

[Geoffw]

change the info to "right click here and select save as"

 

[JCO]

That works great too.
Great idea. I haven't heard from Bell... if he (or she) has read these
suggestions.