WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Options for Displaying PDFs of Articles? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/options-for-displaying-pdfs-of-articles WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Options for Displaying PDFs of Articles? en Sat, 25 May 2013 19:28:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Options for Displaying PDFs of Articles?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/options-for-displaying-pdfs-of-articles#post-906990 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:38:01 +0000 timethief 906990@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ These are your options on a free hosted WordPress.com blog.

The following processes are outlined particularly for users who wish to upload a document and add its download link to a blog post or page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/uploading-documents/

If you want to embed the document itself, you will have to use a third party application like Scribd or Google Docs. Otherwise, the documents will appear as a download link.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/uploading-documents/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/scribd/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/google-docs/

]]> cillian19 on "Options for Displaying PDFs of Articles?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/options-for-displaying-pdfs-of-articles#post-906981 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:20:26 +0000 cillian19 906981@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello there. I'm relatively new. I'm a writer and I need to display .PDFs of my articles on my site. However, I want the .PDF or at least a preview to display in the post itself, and then open up in a window within the same page (I've seen this on a ton of sites - you click on the image preview, then scroll through the PDF without a new window opening).

Is this possible on WordPress.com? Would I need a special widget to get such a reader embedded in my page? And if not, is there at least a way I can preview the .PDF in the blog post itself, rather than just having it as a text link?

I appreciate any direction or help you can give me.

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