PDF versions of content. Count as Duplicate Content?

Will I run into problems

[gdguide]

Hi all,

I have a few hundred articles on my site, and I want people to be able to download PDF information guides on the site as well as read it online. I'll probably be grouping 4 articles together into 1 guide.

As far as I know, PDFs do get indexed, at least somewhat. If they do get indexed, will I have problems with duplicate content for the search engines? Is this a bad way to go?

Are PDFs a bad idea?

What are your experiences on this? Thanks

Brian

[Jon_King]

I use PDFs on several sites and have chosen to be careful of this dup issue. I have PDFs and print versions (esentially dups) in a separate folder that is disallow'd in my robots.txt

No problems with this method for several years. IMHO

[gdguide]

Ah... That makes good sense. Have you found that PDFs add to the value of the site? Is this method appreciated?

Thanks a lot for the reply.

Best regards

Brian