Interactive PDFs

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  hcfamass · Member · Sep 7, 2010 at 8:16 pm

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  Greetings all,

  I’m looking to create an annual report that would be presented on a wordpress.com blog. We currently have an outside company designing the art-aspect of it, but want to host it on WP. I know that WordPress is used as a website for certain folks so I’m certainly interested in something like this.

  My question is, are PDFs that have links and other tweaks embedded onto it viewable on WordPress?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  hallluke · Member · Sep 7, 2010 at 8:54 pm

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  Yes with the Scribd shortcode.

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  naokomc · Member · Sep 7, 2010 at 8:55 pm

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  To embed a viewable document into a post/page, you can try one of these external services:

  Scribd: http://en.support.wordpress.com/scribd/ (best for documents)
  Slideshare: http://en.support.wordpress.com/slideshows/slideshare/ (optimized for presentation slides)

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  naokomc · Member · Sep 7, 2010 at 8:58 pm

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  Oops, @halluke was a minute faster than me but we both recommended Scribd :)

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  sanjidas · Member · Sep 7, 2010 at 9:30 pm

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  @hcfamass,

  You might also like to try Docstoc – Documents, Templates, Forms, Ebooks, Papers & Presentations.

  You can see a working example in a wordpress.com blog here:
  How to embed documents from Docstoc in a wordpress.com blog

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  hcfamass · Member · Sep 9, 2010 at 3:18 pm

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  This was exactly what I was looking for!

  Side question, but what would you guys say is the best theme for displaying full page versions of these pdfs so they can be viewed?

  Thank you!