Embed a price sheet to display on web page?

mrhoni · May 15, 2016

If I have a nice pretty PDF price sheet, can I make a web page that will nicely display that PDF?

I currently have a web page with all the pricing, but I was thinking of embedding the PDF to reduce the number of places I'd need to keep up to date if I change any prices or add/delete products, etc.

If this can be done, what do I need to know about doing this?
thanks.

denisegoldberg · May 15, 2016

I'm not aware of a way to embed a PDF in a page on your smug site.

You can store a PDF on another site and link to it from your site - but that wouldn't open the PDF in the context of your site.

There is a feature request related to PDFs although it's not clear to me that displaying the PDF is being requested. You might want to add to the request - http://feedback.smugmug.com/forums/17723-smugmug/suggestions/6579387-support-non-image-files-to-be-uploaded-such-as-pdf.

--- Denise

jerryr · May 16, 2016

Hi - Denise is correct. Here is an example of a photographer that created images which link to PDF files stored in google docs.
Before, Cindi continuously e-mailed potentials/current clients price lists, information, etc.
Now she simply sends them a link to her site to access the latest and greatest version of the PDF. This is an incredible time savings for Cindi + it drives traffic to her site (bonus).
Always think of the business problem you are trying to solve

http://www.cindijonesphotography.com/
Example : http://www.cindijonesphotography.com/Sports-Info

- jerryr

ps - Cindi gets inquiries from everywhere on her creative sports banners - check it out :
http://www.cindijonesphotography.com/Sports/Banner-Samples/

denisegoldberg · May 16, 2016

jerryr wrote: »

Here is an example of a photographer that created images which link to PDF files stored in google docs.
...
Always think of the business problem you are trying to solve

http://www.cindijonesphotography.com/
Example : http://www.cindijonesphotography.com/Sports-Info

That's a great example, thanks!

--- Denise

Teetime · May 16, 2016

mrhoni wrote: »

If I have a nice pretty PDF price sheet, can I make a web page that will nicely display that PDF?

I currently have a web page with all the pricing, but I was thinking of embedding the PDF to reduce the number of places I'd need to keep up to date if I change any prices or add/delete products, etc.

If this can be done, what do I need to know about doing this?
thanks.

Different strokes. Last fall I spent some time researching how to create a responsive table that I could use for my price list and have it look good on large and small devices. I found this table generator. Here is the price list I created. I keep all my prices in that one place, but I can create a pdf of that price list if I ever needed to send it in that form.

Embed a price sheet to display on web page?

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