Re: displaying a PDF file

At 02:23 PM 6/15/01 -0400, Dana Mackonis wrote:
>I am not sure if this is actually a graphics question or not, but I will
>give it a try.
>
>I have a one page PDF that I want to display. What is the best way to do
>this??
>
>dana

Hi Dana

The best I have found in my experience is to make it a link to the pdf. 
Provide size of the file, and also provide a link to the free Adobe Reader, 
in case the person doesn't have it yet.

A friend once took my graphical pdf file (for a poster), and tried to show 
it as a graphic image on his page. It was a big mistake, as it crashed my 
whole system when it tried to load. That was the first time, the second 
time, it took forever to download and view, and then it didn't show it 
properly. I had even made small gif images he could use to show what was in 
the pdf file, and to use as a link, but he didn't want to use those. Until 
he finally got a few other complaints, that was... then he got it as a 
link, and set it up so it wouldn't crash.

This is a link to my version of what I just mentioned, for an example of 
what I did.
http://home.earthlink.net/~macruimmon/Freebies/ICC-adcreative.html

Thats my thoughts for what it is worth.


Kimiko Drew
macruimmon(at)earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~macruimmon/
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