pdf file from net to blog
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Can that be done? It can be done with pictures but how do I take a pdf directly from the internet to my blog?
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You can just upload it like a regular image in the Upload box. You’d have to download it first. You shouldn’t be hotlinking to images or PDFs around the web, but should upload them in your own space and link back to the source.
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I have all my pictures at TinyPic. That site is made for that purpose. I do not hotlink pictures.
There are hosts for pdf files also.
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There is the embed principle. Like we do with slide shows and videos. The are usually hosted somewhere on sites for that purpose. Same with pictures – they can also come from a third party. PhotoBucket for example. We can also host other files on the internet. Such as pdf files. And link to them the same way we link to pictures. MediaFire specifically permits that. So why go directly from host to blog?
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I don’t understand: you asked how you could get them directly from elsewhere on the web to your blog. You can simply link to them. If you want to take them off the web, upload them to a site like Tinypic or Photobucket or whatever, and use them from there, you can, but that’s not direct.
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What I meant was to ask for a way to upload a pdf without having to download it to my pc first. The document is already hosted on the internet. Just like a lot of videos are on YouTube and places alike. We do not have to save videos to our computer in order to upload them here. That’s what I meant. I’m sorry if I was unclear, – I certainly didn’t intend to…
:-)
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As far as I know, it would only be shareable in that way if it were already uploaded to such a site. Flickr hosts PDFs, and Photobucket I think as well. But it would have to be at a site that allows it.
Unless you have it in your personal webspace, whether at Photobucket or wherever, you can’t use the link to display it. That’s hotlinking and I know that it can kill a photobucket account, as someone did it to me and I lost all my images for a week. You need it to be in your account at one of those sites, or at WP.com, or you need permission of the owner to use the link.
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Videos are a slightly different case, as there are no bandwidth limits on those video sites AND by allowing embedding, the owners are giving specific permission to embed the videos in external sites. Image uploading sites don’t work that way, most of them.
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I did upload it however, but the pdf does not embed i the post. All one get is a link. I do not se the point in that?
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PDFs are generally designed to be printed, or at least looked at as-is, with not even the formatting of putting it in a post. They’re all about control. I don’t think you can make it display as an image on your blog. That’s not how they work. You can use them as a whole web page, but not on a WP.com blog.
If you want to show the contents of the PDF, maybe it’s better to convert it to an image file first and just use that like normal.
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This is not about hotlinking nor is it about accounts. I have no questions about those issues. But thank you for your kindness all the same. I will mark the thread as resolved. I don’t think we will get much further today.
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Here is what I think is the answer to the question: you can embed the PDF in the post so it is downloadable, but you cannot DISPLAY it in the post.
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Google is your best friend. I have the solution now. This is what to do if you want to embed a pdf and DISPLAY it in a post.
1. Have Vod:Pod’s Beta Button installed. Otherwise embedding is not possible
2. Go to the site called Scribd and upload the document from the internet or your pc
3. When uploaded click the Vod:Pod button
4. Done!You can resize in rich editor on your blog
You can download the Vod:Pod Beta button here: http://vodpod.com/wordpress
The is Scribd’s url address: http://www.scribd.com/
This is what is looks like. I have chosen to have the embedded pdf ad small as possible but it can still be read. Scroll down to see the example: http://universalgeni.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/nyt-integrationsprogram-virker/This also works for other types of documents.
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Note: to be able to read the text in the pdf on my blog, you move the little arrow in Scribd’s grey toolbar to the right (in the example that I linked to above).
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I forgot to honor the source of this tip: http://igeog.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/embedding-scribd-in-wordpress/
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