need help updating a pdf file to my site

need help uploading a pdf file to my site

[amythepoet]

HI,

I've got a pdf file which includes some pictures and would like to get it on my site

do not know how to do this.

Would love some help.

thanks

[Leosghost]

just ftp it like any other file ..

[amythepoet]

Oh, but there is a picture along with text and I don't know how to manipulate the picture

[Leosghost]

the pdf should already include the picture ..before you upload ...the pdf isnt compiled from various elements .."on the fly" by the downloading browser ..

sounds like you have made your pdf incorrectly ..

BTW do you mean updating ( as in changing the content an already existant pdf file ) ..or uploading it ..or both ..?

your title and your meta description on this thread are not saying the same thing ..if it's updating and compiling the pdf that's giving you grief ..then you need to be posting this in "graphics" [webmasterworld.com] ..limbo's area ..with details of which app and it's version ..you are using to compile the pdf ..

[amythepoet]

HI,

I have a pdf file which was sent by someone else, I would like to upload this file to my website and create a new page out of it.

Thank you

[Leosghost]

Ok ..if you want to make a web page out of a pdf ..then the first thing you must have is the permission of the person wrote the text inside the pdf and who made the picture s ;-)..

Then you need an app which converts pdf to html or also chm ( chm is the kind of webpage that windows shows you as a helpfile when you hit "help" in windows or many apps that run on doze ..thats right a help file is a special kind of webpage which doesnt need the IE browser..or firefox etc to start up for you to see it ..it's also what most "ebooks" are made as ) ..

there's gazzillions of these apps out there ..varying degrees of sophistication in them ..

look on any search engine for "pdf to html" with the quotes left around the words ..( that will get you one that makes a ready made web page by "ripping" your PDF ) and see if you can find one that also makes CHM files too ( never know when you might want to make an ebook of your poems ..and get rich charging for it ;-)) ..

presumably you want a free one , ..so try the snapfiles site and major geeks site ..and so on ..try also a shareware version ..usually they have a trial period ..get one with no restraints on the output other than the time you can use it for before you pay ..if you like it ..buy it ..

the kind of apps like this that I personally have are expensive and have lots of things you dont need for now ..

[edited by: Leosghost at 2:10 am (utc) on Oct. 5, 2006]

[Leosghost]

Just had thought ..maybe "open office" can do this? ..
i have it ..but have never investigated if it can rip pdfs and lay them out as preformatted html or maybe html/word compatible pages with the images in their original places?

I cant test it for you as I dont have it on this machine and the machine which does is doing sopmething else at the moment and I dont want to bother it for another 5 hours or so ..

you can get open office from source forge ..and you can actually run it from a keydrive ..as you can with firefox ..

even if it cant do the conversion ..it' still worth downloading ..

[amythepoet]

HI Leogshost,

Jut woke up and found the message here.

If you could test it for me, that would be great

I do have permission from the person who sent it to put it on my site

Now, am going back to sleep, please drop another note.

thank you

[Leosghost]

tried ..open office cant do it ..
but PDF2HTML will ..

it's at snapfiles ..freeware ..;-)
see your sticky for exact link

you should also look around at verifypdf dot com .( I left it unlinked deliberately ..it's a commercial site ..but has some freeware apps ..clean ).for stuff with gui's if you are not at ease with commnd line apps

[edited by: Leosghost at 11:51 am (utc) on Oct. 5, 2006]

[amythepoet]

Thanks very much Leosghost

where would I be with out webmasterworld?

I'll look at it and see what I can do wiht it and give you a report

many thanks

[pixeltierra]

The text should be easy to grab. An easy way to get the image "back" is to a screen capture, usualy by holding down the fn key, and then hit "print screen". This will make a jpg and put it in the clipboard (windows). Open photoshop and make a new file paste it in. Then crop and walį.