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Probably a dumb question....but

by Bryan Zimmerman
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I wrote a ebook and converted it into PDF form through adobe's create pdf's online. The pdf came out fine and all the links work fine but I can't seem to get a link for people to be able to down load it from a web page after purchase. I can email it as an attatchment no problem but can't figure out the download link. The link I got from adobe is just the link to "pick up" the pdf file and just takes people to the login page of adobe when they click on it. Any clues?
#dumb #questionbut
  • Profile picture of the author Mike Bogowski
    Hi bzimm,

    You will have to download the pdf file from adobe, and then upload it to your own server for your users to download.

    Once you have done that you can use the following code to create the link:

    <a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/yourfile.pdf">Click Here to Download</a>

    Hope this helps
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    • Profile picture of the author Bryan Zimmerman
      Thanks Mike!
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    • Profile picture of the author Bryan Zimmerman
      Originally Posted by Mike Benkovich View Post

      Hi bzimm,

      You will have to download the pdf file from adobe, and then upload it to your own server for your users to download.

      Once you have done that you can use the following code to create the link:

      <a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/yourfile.pdf">Click Here to Download</a>

      Hope this helps
      Can someone explain to me exactly how I'm supposed to upload it to my server? I don't exactly understand how or what to do that. I can get it on my hard drive in pdf form and I can get the link into a email attatchment but I'm a little lost from there. I tried to upload the link to a blank webpage and get the link using the above code but that didn't work either (i'm using xsitepro2 if that means anything). I don't know if that would even work but I tried it any way. Sorry put I'm new to this and have never done my own pdf before. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dixiebelle
        You'll need to contact your hosting company. They will walk you through loading it onto their server. You do have a hosting account ??

        Hope that was some help to you.
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        • Profile picture of the author Bryan Zimmerman
          Originally Posted by Dixiebelle View Post

          You'll need to contact your hosting company. They will walk you through loading it onto their server. You do have a hosting account ??

          Hope that was some help to you.
          Thanks Dixiebelle

          Yea I have a hosting account with a couple of sites up on it. I've just never tried to distribute pdf before. Totaly clueless on how to do it. I wasn't sure if there was some trick to it or there was something I just wasn't getting.
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