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Xtreme tech
post Aug 23 2007, 09:46 AM
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OK my company wants to take our documentation to the web and I have been elected to get it done.

What we have is a multi tiered adobe PDF document consisting of more than 5000 Pages. We want to take this and convert to a website with the same functionality as the PDF.

The pdf is multible files located in several folder all in a main folder. Then the documnets are linked.

Basicaly my questions are:

1. Can this be done and assign its unique url?
2. Is there a software program out there and will aid me in this?
3. Is there a better way to handel this with out allowing the document to be downloaded (printing out is ok)
4. Can a PDF file have a unique URL (www.MYPDFDOCUMENTATION.com)


Thanks for all the help

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post Aug 23 2007, 10:20 AM
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There ar several programs that convert PDF to HTML (google "pdf to html"). The ones I've looked at output very messy pages, but there could be better ones than those I've tried.

You can't stop things from being downloaded. If they can't be downloaded they can't be seen at all. Simple as that.
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post Aug 23 2007, 04:27 PM
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4. Can a PDF file have a unique URL (www.MYPDFDOCUMENTATION.com)


You could configure your server to use the PDF file as the default file of a directory, just like "index.html" is normally used. On an Apache server this can be done with a .htaccess directive. A disadvantage will be that users may not know they're opening a PDF file (which is annoying at least to me due to the general slowness of the PDF viewer).
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post Aug 23 2007, 04:52 PM
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Could, yes. But what a horrid thing to do. Do you (Xtreme tech) really mean that you want a PDF to act as index file for your domain and do you really want to set up a domain just for this purpose?

All files on the web have an URL and they are all unique. If you stuff your PDFs in a directory called 'docs' their URLs would be http://examle.com/docs/1.pdf , http://examle.com/docs/2.pdf and so on.
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