PDF convert to webpage

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  thecrewelevation · Member · Mar 30, 2022 at 12:50 pm

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  I would like to offer a PDF document as part of a paid course, however I don’t want it to be downloadable so it can be passed onto a third party. Can i have this document available for view only or as part of the website itself?

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  staff-sheva · Staff · Mar 30, 2022 at 4:45 pm

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  Hi @thecrewelevation,

  If you’d prefer not to share your content as a PDF, you might want to consider creating pages using the premium content block to limit access to subscribers only.

  Please keep in mind, to use that block you’ll need a plan upgrade. If you’re interested in that, you can review plan features and pricing here: https://wordpress.com/pricing/

  I hope that helps and please reach out again if you have any further questions.

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  thecrewelevation · Member · Mar 31, 2022 at 6:28 am

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  Thank you for your suggestion.
  Can I convert my existing PDF pages into a site page?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 31, 2022 at 6:49 am

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  Hi there,

  To do that you’ll need to copy the content in your PDF, and paste it into a new page on your WordPress.com site. Some formatting might be lost during the copy-paste process, so you can then use the formatting tools in the editor to re-format the content how you want it.

  PDF files and web pages use completely different coding languages to display content, so there’s no way to just automatically convert a PDF doc into a web page :)

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  thecrewelevation · Member · Mar 31, 2022 at 7:10 am

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  Does converting PDF to HTML help?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 31, 2022 at 8:00 am

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  If you have a program on your computer that can do that conversion you can try that, but that would be making things more complicated than simply copy-pasting the page content:

  You’d still need to then copy-paste the resulting HTML code into a new page on your site, so it still wouldn’t be a direct conversion. But you’ll need to paste that HTML code in a custom HTML block, which means in the editor you’ll always see that content as HTML, rather than seeing the rendered preview directly in the editor. We also block some HTML tags on WordPress.com for security reasons, so if the code you paste in contains any of those tags, they’ll get stripped out when you save the page.

  https://wordpress.com/en/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/custom-html-block/

  https://wordpress.com/en/support/code/

  If your document contains any images, they’ll need to be uploaded to the media library separately, regardless of which method you use to copy the content over to your site.

  So there’s no real advantage in converting the PDF to HTML first.