On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Serious_Practitioner wrote:
> Good day -
>
> I have a page from which users can download a number of documents. These are
> all in .pdf format, and I know that some folks will need to get the Reader
> software.
>
> Does anyone know if Adobe offers a code snippet to link to a button and link
> the button back to the appropriate page on the Adobe site? I can blunder my
> way through this if I have to go find the Adobe button and then hook some
> code to it, but it's be easier to get the right thing on the first try. I
> did look through the Adobe site, but even searching the site with Adobe's
> own search function didn't give me anything close to this.
>
> Thank you all again for your help, not only with this, but in the past.
Someone else has already posted the URL for Adobe's "Download" page but
I have one suggestion that could make your site a bit friendlier for
the visually-impaired or others who can't use the Adobe reader.
Adobe has a PDF-to-HTML-or-text converter script on their site.
It has been moved and changed since I last used it.
While their former form used action="POST" (and only converted to HTML)
their script also accepted GET so you could create links to their form
that automatically converted your PDFs. It didn't work for anything that
relied on images for the data but it did a fairly good job with PDFs that
were primarily text.
I haven't tested their new form (which asks for more data than the old
form) to see if it work with GET or not. You *could* create a form of
your own for each PDF file of yours that has the same fields with the same
questions but with the URL for your PDF file already filled in (or,
perhaps, use a drop-down menu to select which of your PDF files to
convert).
The URL for their Accessibility site is:
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/main.html
Their PDF converter is now at (and a user can now select text or HTML):
http://www.adobe.com/products/acroba...linetools.html
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