[snowrider04]

I am looking to publish a magazine that I have as a PDF. Is there a way that I can post the PDF to a website so someone can page through and interact with the zine? I'm familiar with Dreamweaver but haven't figured out how to do this. Any help or guidance would be most appreciated.

Cheers!
Lee

[tooki]

PDFs suck for on-screen viewing. You have zero control over display: the browser can do nothing beyond passing the PDF file to a plugin (if present) or downloading it and then opening it with a PDF viewer application. No amount of HTML can affect any of this.

I suppose you could use an iframe to at least have the PDF load inside your page, but... ick.

If in any way possible, publish the articles as HTML -- no PDF.

See http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010610.html and http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030714.html for why you should avoid PDFs for anything except documents that you require the reader to print.

tooki

[sahnapiranha]

Here is an example of something similar that I've done:

http://haaug.org/Files/AppleBarrels/...el_2004-08.pdf

I assembled the rag in QuarkXpress, printed it as a PDF, then tweaked it using Acrobat Professional.

The results are quite nice IMO (contrary to the opinion in tooki's wonderfully outdated links). I've added hyperlinks back to HAAUG's website, as well as hyperlinks within the PDF to toggle to different pages.

Give Acrobat Pro a try--you'll LOVE it!

[snowrider04]

thanks for the reply tooki. because my knowledge of web is limited i wasn't sure how to handle this. i already have pdf's of the zines so i thought it would be easiest to just publish those. ultimately i want the articles and features to be readable so i guess i'll have to re-lay them out in an editor and create new web pages.

[Chuckit]

It's fine to put PDFs of the magazine up. I really like when magazines and newspapers do that, actually, because then I can print out copies of the page for framing or whatever. The only thing is, then it's not a Web site. So if you want it to be like a Web page that people can browse through, you'll need to do it in HTML (which is basically what "Web page" means). If you just want to allow people to read the magazine, though, I think a page with links to download the PDFs and an explanation of what software is required to view them (yeah, some people don't have it) wouldn't be terribly evil.

[FireWire]

Originally Posted by sahnapiranha

http://haaug.org/Files/AppleBarrels/...el_2004-08.pdf

[sahnapiranha]

Originally Posted by FireWire

Thanks!