How to have a link that lets people download an acrobat file?

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Abhi100 asked:

Ok i know it sounds confusing but like suppose i want a download button on my site and when people click that download button it a small pop up window come saying save or open how can i do that and when they click open or download file comes in acrobat reader format! Please help
I dont get it sorry im a beginner dont understand dont i need upload the file to my webserver?>

3 Comments »

  1. avatar Constructive Visual Says:

    Edit, Copy and then Paste this code where you would like the filename placed onto your website.

    The file must be in .pdf format already and what you need to do is specify where the folder is on your web server.

    name of file

  2. avatar HG Sieber Says:

    Test

    Open
    Download

    All you have to do is to embed it into a popup ;-)
    Edit: mhh seems like Internet Explorer ignores the MIME-Type supplied. Maybe you can somehow change the MIME-Type for a certain file on your Webserver. Please look it up in the corresponding manual. If you don’t have access to the webserver itself, maybe there are other ways i don’t know of.

    A quick and dirty way would probably to zip the pdf for download…

    Edit2: Yes, you need to upload the files to your webserver. If your putting the pdf-files in the same directory as your html-files reside, you can reference them by the filename (as shown above).
    In a sub-directory you can reference to them like this:

  3. avatar Tom H Says:

    If a file is in the PDF format it should automatically open in Acrobat Reader. Just upload the PDF file to your server and link your button to it.

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