Dave B
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I just found, in my opinion, a major missing feature in the website creator. If you have PDF or some files you want to link to you have to do it with absolute urls and have the directory outside the export folder. It would be nice to have a file picker and a file importer to make this so much easier. It seems pretty common to have files on a website.
Or maybe I am missing an easy way to do this.
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Bob T
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I concur (or maybe I'm missing something too).
Is there any other way to do this other than as Dave B suggested?
Would like to see files (PDF's, or any other file type) handled the same way images are (insert From File.., From URL..).
And I like the idea of a file picker/importer. Perhaps what is needed is a media manager?
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Garry
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Currently you need to do it manually.
Simly right click in the article, select Edit source HTML and add following HTML:
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/your-file.pdf">This as a PDF</a>
You need to upload the pdf file in root of your site using an FTP client.
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Dave B
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I am adding the text first and then making it a hyperlink to the file. Sure would be nice though to not have to do the file upload every time you update the site. Surely this must be in the list of additions. Everytime you export it deletes the files from the directory, assuming you are overwriting the previous versions.
Even better than that would be a Dreamweaver type setup where it checks to see what files have updated and only overwrite those.
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Dave B
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It appears the final version does not delete any files that are not part of the export. This is good.
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Claudia
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Hi Brian and Dave,
I have the same problem, need to link a pdf to the footer of a html template.
Followed your advice, added the absolute URL, uploaded the pdf into the root folder.
the code looks like this: <a href="http://www.domain.co.za/abc-certificate.pdf" title="download our abc certificate">abc Certificate</a>
Still it gives me "The requested URL /xxx.pdf was not found on this server. Plus a 404 error.
Any idea what goes wrong?
Many thanks
Claudia
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Stewart
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I have linked images to pdfs on my website using the link option within Artisteer.
But I have found that once the website is exported, it adds '.html' to the end of each link. so it is now looking for "name.pdf.html" instead of "name.pdf".
Obviously I can go in to each page and delete the '.html' from the end of each document in the html coding but this can be very tedious if you have hundreds of pages.
Is there a way to tell Artisteer that these are documents and not html pages? Or tell Artisteer not to add '.html' to the end of these links?
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Heba
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I have the same problem. i can`t add PDF file to my website..
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Manny
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I had the same problem and was adding it manually. It now works and here is the difference - do not add a forward slash before the folder that the pdf file is in. I did not add an absolute url but simply began with the folder in which the pdf file resides in.
/downloads/pdffilename.pdf ---will not work and adds a .htm extension
downloads/pdffilename.pdf --- will work and does not add the .htm
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peter
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same problem with extension, program add extension html after PDF extension,
do you know somebody, if is possibility set it samewhere in program
if I look in html code inside in Artisteer, I see only /folder/file.pdf - it s good
after export from Artisteer to website template I see in html code /folder/file.pdf.html - wrong
why?????
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john
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wow.. no way to link a file. Waste of money! I have 4.1, you have to have the URL. how sad!
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