Displaying PDF files on your website provides added value for visitors. Visitors can read it directly on the website without needing another reader as you can see at the bottom of this article.
PDF documents are widely distributed over the internet, however it requires a PDF viewer to open and read it. It would be very annoying for visitors to read PDFs when required to install a specific reader first.
What is PDF? Portable Document Format (abbreviated as PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in the year of 1993 for digital document exchange needs. The PDF format is used to represent two-dimensional documents that include text, letter, two-dimensional vector images and graphics.
How to display a pdf file on a website so that visitors can read it directly?
By following this short guide, You can easily display PDF files on your website, good for WordPress websites, Joomla and Html.
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Steps to display PDF files on websites without Plugin
To display PDF files on websites without using plugins, You just need to share the PDF file link with Google Drive. Follow these steps:
Total Time 15 minute
Steps 1: Upload PDF files to Google Drive
Uploading a PDF to Google Drive is quite easy. Noise Google Drive Web, then pull the file from the computer storage space, then drop it to Google Drive
Steps 2: Share PDF files
To share PDF files, right click the file then select it Share then select it again Share
Steps 3: Set the PDF file's Access Rights to Public and Copy the link
Click on the option (1) General access then change to (2) Anyone with the link so that everyone can open the file, then click (3) Salink link to get the link to the file that has been shared
Steps 4: Open the PDF file link in the browser
Paste the copied link into the browser by pressing the button Ctrl + V in the Browser address bar. You can see the PDF file has opened
Steps 5: Copy PDF file Embed Code
(1) Click the three-dots in the top right corner of the PDF viewer, then click (2) Pin items… then a screen will appear containing HTML code, (3) copy the HTML code to paste it on the web page
Steps 6: Paste the HTML Code into a web page
If you use WordPress CMS, (1) add a Custom HTML block, Then (2) paste the code into it. If you are a Joomla user, You can search for buttons Insert Code or Edit HTML Source in the Editor then paste the code into it. (3) Optional: You can change the display width to 100% and high to 800 so that the view becomes wider
That's how to display website PDF files without using a plugin.
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