Best way to display a pdf on a website


















The following best practices will help you create a website that uses PDFs in an effective way without annoying your readers or driving them to find the content they want elsewhere. There are many great reasons to use PDFs, here are some ways to use them that won't annoy your readers, but instead will help them:. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content.

Create a personalised content profile. If you wish to make it easy, follow the standard approaches to the task - help them learn how to install the plugin and access a PDF.

Even the ads are made with Flash. Which is why I and many others like me browse websites with Flash off by default, to avoid those ads and to increase performance. Don't make me turn it on. I use a PDF viewer of my choice. One that I am familiar with already, not from Adobe. You also introduce a learning curve, for me to view your PDF.

I now have to learn to use your tool. You should at least present the user with a choice. I would bet that there is way more processing overhead involved. In my opinion you are on the right track but you are going the wrong way.

No need to re-invent the wheel here. As for the indexing, Google can now read the content of Flash files as well. I know it because I recently had the surprise to see the content of one of my Flash movie ranked well above the main page of my site!

The link description was exactly the content of the SWF file. So, one more point to Flash. Demaestro Msg pm on Aug 9, gmt 0 Senior Member joined:Dec 15, posts votes: 8. Are you sure that is right? Seriously if so I will be switching some of the bigger ones I have over. And, 2 Does the user have Flash installed?

Can you sniff for either of these and feed accordingly? Does anybody have any source for analytics which clue us in to the probability of either of those being the case? Anyway, just link to the pdf, I say. I made a mistake and the numbers were wrong. Sorry for that : Still, the SWF files are more than twice smaller. You simply have to check "compress file" in the export options. You can also do it on multiple pages with print2flash's trial version. It shapes the entire decision whether you choose to see it that way or not.

I suspect the opposite is true if you target the youth leisure market. Agree or not? Search Search. Subscribe to our email newsletter and never miss an update. Mail Merge with Attachments. Download Tutorials Video. Save Emails and Attachments.

Download email messages and file attachments from Gmail to your Google Drive. Google Forms Email Notifications. You could then use Headers to separate the sections by topic, whether across the top or running down inside the columns or both. That is exactly what tables are meant for, and in that use they are perfectly acceptable, or rather, recommended. As for your other question, without knowing more about the site it is difficult to answer. NET master pages are not a good mix.

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