Multiple Pdfs

[Guest]

I have recently taken over for someone retiring in a local city. Trying to absorb all i can about Dreamweaver. I need to link multiple pdfs to a single text for the year for which the pdfs are about. Am i missing something on how to do this?

[Jon Fritz]

1. Make sure the PDF files are in the Files window of the site

2. Highlight the text in Design View

3. In the Properties window (Ctrl + F3 or Window > Properties if it's not open) click the HTML button on the far left

4. In the Link field you can add the location of the PDF, click the folder icon to browse to it or click and drag the crosshair icon to it in the Files window.

5. Save and upload both the html file and all of the PDFs to the server

[Nancy OShea]

Put PDFs into a folder and ZIP it with WinZip or StuffIt (your computer's compression utility software).

Upload the ZIP folder to your remote server.

Create a text link to the  ZIP file on your remote server.

     <a href="http://yourdomain.com/PDF_folder_name.zip">Link Text</a>

Typically, when people click on a link to ZIP files their browser gives them options to download & save the file.

Nancy

[BenPleysier]

Adding to Nancy's reply, please state the size of the download so that there is not an unpleasant surprise that awaits the user when their ISP sends them the bill.

e.g.

<a href="http://yourdomain.com/PDF_folder_name.zip">Link Text - <small>35MB</small></a>

[Guest]

Maybe I'm asking the wrong question here. I have multiple pdfs of minutes and agendas from our city council. They are stretching down the page so I need to take the minutes and agendas of the same years and compress them into on text like "This City's Minutes and Agendas 2015". Basically archiving them on our website with a link. Thanks again for all the help!!

[John Waller]

Nancy's suggestion would achieve that.

Zip them by year, upload the Zip file (containing multiple PDFs) and add a single text link for each year (2015, 2014 etc) for each Zip file.

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

I have done this in the past with form Select lists & jump menus.  A little clunky but it works.

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