Overview

You can upload PDFs to be linked in your pages. You can also select PDFs that have already been uploaded elsewhere on your site and link to them.

Table of Contents

Steps

Inserting PDFs using the "Link" icon

Step 1: Select Your Text to Be Linked to the PDF

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From within a page or piece of content with a text editor, type and select the text you want the PDF or doc to link to.

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Step 2: Click the Chain Icon

This is the same icon you click when you want to insert a link to a page on your site, or on another site.

Step 3: Click the "Open File Browser" text

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This brings up IMCE, the File Manager.

Step 4: Select Your File

If your file is already in the File Manager, you can click on it and hit the "Select" option at the top.

If you don't see it, you can upload the file from your desktop.

Click "Upload" and "Add File."

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I'm uploading and linking to this Color Guide PDF.

There are file size limits, usually 2 megabytes, so if the PDF doesn't upload, it may be too large.

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Your pdf will need  need to be 2 megabytes or smaller to be uploaded. Here's a tutorial on reducing the pdf file size, if your file is too large.

I actually re-saved the original of this using Adobe Acrobat's "Save as Reduced Size PDF" option. 431kb is small enough.

Click on your newly uploaded PDF and click "Select."

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You'll see the url to the PDF.
'Save' your link.

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Step 5:

View Link

It now appears in the document.

Step 6: Save Your Document

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Test your link.

Your browser settings will determine whether the PDF appears in the browser or downloads automatically.

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Inserting PDFs using the "File" icon

Alternatively, if If you know your PDF isn't on the site already, you can by pass bypass the File Manager altogether.

Step 1: Select the Text You Want to

Link to pdf

Step 2: Click on the Paperclip Icon that Says "File."

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Click on 'Choose File'

Step 3: Select a File from Your Desktop

Step 4: Click 'Save'

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Step 5: Save Your Document

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Step 6: Test Your Link

Getting a

File to

Appear in the

Menu Structure

Let's say you want a PDF or other file to exist in the menu somewhere, not on a page. We'll start a Basic Page and upload a PDF the usual way. We will save the page as published, which is different than the way we would go about this in Drupal 7, where we wouldn't have to save a page). We'll go to the File list, get the url for the file, and go into the menu structure and add the url to the PDF to the menuFollow the instructions below to add the PDF.

Step 1: Go to Add Content and Select Basic Page

You can use any content type with the text editor field, really.

Step 2:

Upload a PDF

Upload a PDF using the instructions above for Inserting a PDF File Via the Link Icon, or the

one Using the File Button

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Step 3: Save the Page as Unpublished

Make sure that the box next to Published is not checked and click on 'Save.'

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Having a

page,

even if

unpublished,

tells Drupal

that the

file is

permanent rather than temporary.

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Step 4: View Files

Go to Content and

click on the 'Files' tab. If you don't see this "

Files" tab, put in a ticket to the web team via helpdesk.franklin.uga.edu.

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Step 5: Under the

Files tab, We See our Recently Uploaded File

Step 6: Get the URL

Click on the file to get the url. We only want the part after the .edu. So starting at "/sites/default/files/etc..."

 Step 7: Go to the Menu Structure and Click "Add Link."

You can access via Structure >> Menus >> Main Menu, or via the Shortcut links in the main menu.

For more information on working with menus, click here. 

Step 8: Paste your url, Give the Link a Title, and Decide Where it Will Go. Save the Link.

Step 9: You Will See Your PDF in the Menu Structure

Deleting PDFs permanently

To remove PDFs and other files permanently, from the File Manager, select a File and click on delete. Or, follow my instructions here: How to delete files in Drupal 8 or Drupal 7