Show your Pdf documents from inside your webpage

Those who are involved with lot of document exchange will probably agree with me that Pdf’s are great way to distribute your original document. With Pdfonline.com, the conversion of documents from the various formats {MS Word (DOC | RTF)–MS PowerPoint (PPT)—MS Publisher (PUB)–MS Excel (XLS)–HTML (MHT)–Text (TXT)–JPG , GIF,TIFF, BMP,PNG, EMF,WMF } to pdf is just a click away.

However, it has been in the wish list of many bloggers and e-publications , over some procedure to display the contents of the pdf documents by embedding them directly in a web page. Until now, the pdfs would be uploaded to some common file sharing network , and the link to the pdf would be specified in the web page. The person whoever wishes to read, has to download the pdf to his system.

Not anymore… now you can show the contents of the pdf right inside your blog / webpage. Surprised.. below you will see a pdf document that I have created as a test document and its content displayed for all of you to see ( without downloading). Use the slider near the ZOOM tool to get a closer look and the HAND tool to drag the page



This is now possible with the help of services from http://www.scribd.com.Not only with pdfs, Scribd allows us to upload and publish documents in other formats also (check out their FAQ)

You can also customize the document for private – public viewing, Allow – disallow printing, Allow-disallow comments, and even more.. Just explore and you get to know better. I personally find this extremly useful for pdf’s ( for other formats depending on the file size, the conversion might take a little longer).. so.. Liked this… Its simple and easy.. just follow the instructions closely

  1. Register with http://www.scribd.com
  2. Look for a link that says UPLOAD
  3. You may upload a document from your Hard Drive (or) specify the URL of the document
  4. Once upload is completed, it will start converting , so that your document is embedded in a flash player ( which is used in the webpage)
  5. Depending on the number of previous documents in queue, this might take some time
  6. Once the conversion is completed, you just have to click on the file to see it on Scribd
  7. On the LeftHand side of the document page ( in scribd), you will see various options to share the file
  8. There is also an Embed Option ( You may not see this immediately after the file upload.. I had to wait for abt 12 hrs to see the embed code… so just upload the files one day ahead of schedule, to be on the safer side)
  9. You may copy paste the Embed code to your blog to show the pdf
  10. The Advanced option allows you to change the height and width of the display area.. so that you may modify it suit the appearance of your blog / website
  11. Thats it… you have the embed code.. now all you need to do is Copy paste the code at the appropriate position in your blog for your friends to see

So you see… displaying the contents of a Pdf file in a webpage is not impossible after all… it just took us a little longer to know about Scribd. I prefer to use this exclusively for Pdfs .. perhaps, you may find other attributes of Scribd more interesting. Dont hesitate to share your thoughts with the rest of us. If you find this post has been helpful in some manner, do drop in a word at the comments page
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9 Replies to “Show your Pdf documents from inside your webpage”

  1. Deepa,
    just to say hello (hello!) and tell you I liked the new looks of your template.I´ve been contemplating the idea of modifying a few things on mine as well but have to fight some laziness not to mention some irritation with blogger because in the last 2 weeks or so people keep telling me that their comments simply disappear…:(

  2. Hi web designer group
    Welcome, Can you be litle bit more specific what exactly the error you are facing.. may be it can be fixed

  3. deepa,
    thanks so much for your comment! I´ve post a reply dedicated to you.
    Shambo Shankara Namah Shivaya!

  4. Hi Gopnath,
    Welcome here & welcome to blogosphere.
    Glad you found this space useful.
    Feel free to browse around.
    Let me know if you have a problem.

    Regards

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