How To Post PDF Files To Facebook
Facebook is very popular, and for good reason. Personal networking, content sharing, and commercial promotion are all wrapped into one platform on the social network. And it’s because to tools like Facebook fanpages that companies and organizations can interact with their audiences on a more personal level.
As a consequence, administrators of Facebook Fanpages are always searching for new, more effective methods to utilize them. Indeed, one Facebook user had a brilliant idea for her page, which developed into a fascinating question regarding PDF documents and Facebook Notes:
I’d want to share a pdf (or Word) file on my Facebook profile (not my personal page, to my business page). I’d want to make it a “Note” that anybody who has “liked” our company page may see. I’d also want to be able to print the document for people that see it. Is such a thing even possible?
It may seem to be an easy task at first, but after much research, we were unable to discover a clear method to do this. We did, however, come across a couple of intriguing workarounds that we felt were worth discussing.
Posting A Link To A PDF File
The initial approach included sending a link to the PDF document, which was arguably the easiest way to submit a document inside a Note:
… Unfortunately, the only things you can incorporate inside a note are an image and a URL, according to our research. As a result, the only straightforward method to add a document is to provide a URL in your note that links to the document (such as the Share link provided by our conversion apps or by websites like Scribd.com). With the Privacy option, you can simply limit who sees the whole message.
The only thing you’ll have is a link to your paper, not the entire content. On the plus side, you can use HTML elements to turn the PDF URL into an active link: a href=“ Here is your PDF link” > a>Insert your text here/a>, along with a link and hyperlink text:
To see whether your link is valid, click Preview. The HTML tags should be gone, leaving an active link in your Note:
A link may be used to publish a PDF to a group, fanpage, or personal Wall. The only difference is that you must include the.pdf link in your Facebook status like you would any other online link you wish to share.
Static HTML for Your Page: iframe Tabs App
While a little more technical than utilizing a link, the second method we found was more aesthetically appealing:
If you’re comfortable with coding, we discovered that you can accomplish that using the Static HTML: iframe Tabs App —https://apps.facebook.com/static html plus/?fb source=search&ref=ts. It can be used on any Facebook app page and allows you to insert whatever kind of code you desire, including PDF code. Any document uploading site may give the PDF embed code (http://youtu.be/UtBWa8dE36M ).
Using Photo Albums and JPEGs
However, in the end, the user addressed the issue by using a few inventive strategies, providing a third option:
My papers were converted to JPEG and stored in “Photos.” Anyone with access to the website may go to Photos, open an album, right-click on each picture/document page, and choose “print photo.” It’s strange, yet it’s effective.
It does, in fact, work. Even if the PDF material had been converted to JPEG, the PDF content could still be seen. It was a brilliant ruse that enabled her to limit printing access to just fans.
Finally
Let us know if you come up with a good solution to this problem. We’d be delighted to include it on the list.
