PDF Support
Hello, any idea when PDFs would be supported? It is really difficult to save web pages while keeping formatting, various content, etc. on iPad or iPhone (Share/Save to Dropbox). Many thanks!
We don't plan to support PDFs as a filetype for posts. You can store them in your folder though, and embed or link to them in other posts as static files. Would that work for now?
And no pressure but if you tell us more about what you're trying to accomplish by saving web pages to Dropbox, we might be able to provide a workaround
Answered 3 years ago · Edit answerThank you for your answer!
The idea was that a preview of PDF (first page, maybe) would be displayed inline and upon click either a full PDF viewer and/or download option is shown.
Cheers!
Answered 3 years ago · Edit answerAh, no, you’ll have to do this manually for now, by linking to the pdf in your folder and creating an image for the first page to place within the link. Please let me know if you have any questions about this
Answered 3 years ago · Edit answerCan someone tell me how to link to a PDF stored in the same folder as the markdown file?
Answered 6 months ago · Edit answerFor sure, this stack exchange discussion on the Recommended way to embed PDF in HTML? has some good options:
<embed src="/path/to/document.pdf" width="500" height="375" type="application/pdf">
I'm not sure if you can use a relative path, safer to use the full path to the PDF with your blog's folder as root
Answered 6 months ago · Edit answer