Embedding PDF into Storyline - issues
Jan 19, 2015
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone can help - I have tried all sorts of ways to add a pdf into my project without adding it into the resources menu. I want a user to click a screenshot and have it display in a Lighbox... seems easy enough, but I have tried hyperlinking - storing the file locally and on server, as a web object locally or on a web server, adding index.html file as described here http://pdfobject.com/instructions.php, reading losts of posts. The problem is, it seems to work half way - once the project is published - I get a white screen instead of the PDF displayed, if I use the PDFObject option - it says " I don't have Adobe Reader or PDF support in this web browser. Click here to download the PDF" when I click to download then it works and displays the PDF - I do have PDF viewer on this browser though.. Please help...
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Hi Mazz
here is a crude sample I did in SL2. Click a button to view the pdf - links to a webobject in a lightbox slide. Actual pdf is in the public folder of dropbox (copied that link).
Is it a browser setting that is stopping the popup perhaps?
Hi Wendy,
Thanks for the quick response! Yes that is precisely what I am looking to do,unfortunately I can't open SL2 on my machine as the trial ranout, I will have to look at your project when I get home. Can you please click on this link - test proj
and see if the PDF opens for you? I have attached the test project as well.
Hi Mazz
no it doesn't open the PDF for me. I see it is on Google drive - there has been some posts recently about this with others have issues viewing content. I found this link from a previous thread that might help you with a workaround.
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/embedded-word-document-or-pdf?page=2
I'll check out your .story file now
Hi again
I published your .story file and had no issue - pdf opened automatically in the lightbox
Oh my!! So it must be google drive then, I could try upload it into Dropbox or somewhere else maybe, this is for my portfolio of things that I have done, was thinking of having some screenshots of PDFs and vids and links, and have it all inside SL... :) thank you
Glad I could help - if you upload to Dropbox...put your published files into the Public folder...then right click on the story.html file and 'copy public link'. That's the one you would give out.
Good luck!
Thanks again, newer versions of dropbox don't have Public folder, but I published it in any case here, and it seems to not open but ask you to download, I've attached a screenshot. I did make it public though - what do you think?
Hi ya
here is a link to youtube video on how to enable the 'Public folder' in dropbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5QAbfuWZlc
yes, you need a pro version of dropbox for this which I don't have... thanks anyway
Hi Mazz,
Have you looked at Amazon S3 as a hosting solution? Amazon S3 offers free hosting with generous usage limits. If you go over your limit, you'll be charged a graduated fee and it's one of the other ones we recommend in this article.
Thanks Ashley, I'll have a look
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