How to add an Adobe Acrobat file to your website

Adobe Acrobat is a software package from Adobe that lets you create professional, magazine quality documents for use off and online. An example might be a graphically rich product brochure that your customers might print out or your business plan. Adobe Acrobat converts any document into an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

Then, anyone can open your document regardless of what hardware or operating system they use and it will look exactly as you intended — with layout, fonts, links, and images intact. ZyWeb allows Acrobat files (known as PDF files) to be uploaded into your website for viewing and download by your visitors. If you want to create your pdf file you will have to purchase Adobe Acrobat from the Adobe site at www.adobe.com however the Acrobat Reader is completey free.

The first thing you need to do is to ensure that visitors to your website will have the right tools necessary to view the PDF file. The Adobe Acrobat Viewer is a free piece of software needed to view Acrobat (PDF) files. Wherever you have a PDF file on your site, it's best to put a link to the Adobe Acrobat reader so that visitors who don't yet have it can obtain it easily.

The following code should be inserted to allow a 'Get Acrobat Reader' button on your site, preferably near to your PDF file.

This code should add a button like this onto your page:

Now you can need upload your PDF file into your website. Go to your Filestore and click on the upload button on the left menus. This will bring up the upload form. Click any one of the 'browse' buttons, and then find the file on your hard drive and click it and click OK to return to the upload page. Click on the 'Get Files' button to upload the file into your Filestore.

Once the file is in your Filestore, publish it in the same way you would publish a picture, by clicking on the tick box just underneath the file, and then clicking on 'Publish' in the left menu. This will bring you to a confirmation screen - simply click the 'Publish' button in the top right corner to publish your file to the Web Server.

Make a note of the web address of your file when it is displayed in the confirmation screen - you will need this in the next step.
It is now just a case of adding the file on your web page using a snippet of HTML code in the text, like so:

<a href="http://www.zyworld.com/_zyworld/zyweb-tutorial.pdf" target="_blank">Click to Download Our Tutorial</a>

The above code produces this link below:

You will need to replace the red text in our example with the web address of your published PDF file. Now simply save and publish your web page for the changes to take effect!

Whenever you add HTML to your ZyWeb page, try and make sure all of your HTML code is on one continuous line throughout