Adding Files To Download

[bridge32]

Is there a way to have a file on the server where people can download it?
I have an instruction / guideline so people can download info from, but i have put the word document in the acatalog folder with a link to it, but it wont open?
This worked ok in frontpage but not in catalog?
Any halp would be appreciated.

[garyhay]

Point me to the file and I will click the link. Zip files are usually downloaded but depending on setup Word files may try to open in the browser.

[bridge32]

If you goto www.partsbypost.co.uk then click on LINKS at the top and then goto DOWNLOADS it is there (how to ... parts 1 & 2)
Thanks.

[NormanRouxel]

You have a very long download filename fot the .doc files that includes spaces. I'd use a much shorter name with no spaces to be sure it will work on all likely browsers.

Also, although most people have Microsoft Word, many will be terrified of loading an unknown doc due to the risk of Word macro viruses.

It would be much better to write your doc's to PDF files and have these as the downloads. There are even freeware pdf writers out there.

I wrote this and did a few other jobs while waiting for your first download to arrive. It did but took so long that no-one would be likely to wait. Again using Acrobat PDF format will give you much smaller files, especially if you scale down the pictures to the smallest that will do the job.

Norman

[garyhay]

Sorry I lost this thread somewhere and now see that the files are PDF. Much better but what's wrong with a Web Page?

If you use a web page then at least you can get some advertising revenue from it and if you have next and back buttons then even more. Or a banner exchange, link swap.

NORMAN

We are using Acrobat on a curent project and have JavaScript in some pages so soon PDF's will be running virus programs as well I assume :(