Re: embedding pdf files in website

on 26/10/02 4:24 AM, danny (phpdummy@belgacom.net) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a website with lots of stories (each story is about 20 pages long). > The list of stories is in a MySQL database. > I've read somewhere that pdf files can be embeded on a webpage. Not to my knowledge. Results will vary from browser to browser. Some will load an Acrobat plug-in, some will save the file and launch the acrobat reader application, etc etc. > I want my > visitor to use the navigation system of my website. (and don't want them to > leave my website while reading the pdf documents). > I Don't like my visitors to scroll down i rather like to use buttons > <previous> and <next> Yuk... is this what YOU want, or what your visitors want? I *personally* HATE having to click through twenty pages, when I could just scroll one or two pages. Each to their own of course. The only reason I would break an article/story up over a few pages would be to get more advertising banners / spaces per article. A html/php solution would be to split the story at the nearest paragraph breaks every 300 words (or whatever figure you choose), split the story up on those breaks, and generate a mutli-page HTML "book" with next and prev buttons. Justin French