When and How to use a PDF
(portable document file)

• If you need to send a document to a PC user or any computer user who does not have the same software as you.
• If you would like to post assignments, syllabi, study guides, etc. on your website.
• "Saving" copies of webpages with all the graphics and text as shown on the webpage.

How to Create a PDF in OS X

• From the print menu, click the “Save As PDF...” button
  
   
• Choose a folder or location that you want to save into (be sure to pay attention and remeber where it is!)
• Save the document with short name and no punctuation, and include .pdf at the end of the file name
  (Ex. homework.pdf)
• Congrats! You’ve saved a PDF
  

Using Freeway
Because of the method in which Freeway generates web pages in a designated "Site Folder" which purges the old and rewrites new pages in the folder, it is recommended that you place your PDF files in a separate folder. Copy the "pdf" folder into your web folder after you have placed the contents of Freeway's "Site Folder."

• Within your "working" web folder, create a folder named "pdf" to hold your PDF files
• Open your website file in Freeway
• Select a page in your site that you wish to place a link to your PDF file
• Create a text frame (blue box) on your page and type the phrase your visitors will see as a link to your PDF file, such as "Link to PDF here" -- "Click here for Study Guide," etc
• Highlight the phrase you typed
    
• From the Edit menu, select Hyperlink
• Click in the "URL" link box and type "pdf/myfile.pdf" (replace "myfile" with the name of your PDF)
            
  When you place your pdf folder in your "Sites" folder, the link "looks for" that folder, and then the file within. NOTE: You cannot "test" this link in the Preview mode. It will only work when all the files are on the web.
• When you upload to your Sites folder on Patriot, be sure to drag both the web page and the pdf folder into the Sites folder.

Using Mozilla Composer

• Open the webpage in Netscape
• Go to "File"--> "Edit Page" [Command + E]
• Type the phrase you want to use for your link ("Link to PDF here" -- "Click here for Study Guide," etc)
• Highlight the phrase you typed
    
• Go to "Insert" ---> "Link" [Command + L]
  A dialog box will appear.
  • Either:....1. Enter the name of the pdf file in the box provided [ex: studyguide.pdf]
    OR:.........2. If your PDF file is in your working webpage folder, select "Choose file" and navigate to your webpage folder to select your pdf, and click "OK" --(DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE IF YOUR FILE IS NOT IN THE SAME LOCATION AS YOUR WEB PAGE)
• When you upload to your Sites folder on Patriot, be sure to drag both the web page and the pdf file into the Sites folder.
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Using Adobe PageMill

• Open the webpage in Adobe PageMill
• Type the phrase you want to use for your link ("Link to PDF here" -- "Click here for Study Guide," etc)
• Highlight the phrase you typed
    
• Click in the link box below (where you have typed web addresses)
  • If the dock is in the way:
    -- click once on the desktop to get the OSX toolbar at the top (Blue apple)
    -- go to the "Dock" menu
    -- select "Hide Dock"
• TYPE the EXACT name of the pdf file
• Press the return key (the link should be underlined)
• When you upload to your Sites folder on Patriot, be sure to drag both the web page and the pdf file into the Sites folder.
  

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