Hello,

Wonder if anyone can help me?

I am trying to get a PDF to display in a webpage in such a way that I can still update the PDF file on the fileserver

ie, PDF is regularly updated, and webpage autorefreshes to display the updated file

any ideas how I can do this?

thanks

Rob

I can't think of any easy way.

You could possibly use frames and might be able to get the pdf viewer to open in one frame only but I'm not sure it will actually do that.

you can do something similar with php scripts

if you have a script on the webpage that displays the contents of a folder then you can update the contents of that folder at will and it will be reflected on the webpage when refreshed

it would only show a list of files eg

file1.pdf

file2.pdf

bigmomma.jpg

cv.doc

etc, rather than the actual pdf opened itself

clear as mud

(also depends if your webhost runs php)

What's the issue with just having the link to the PDF? It'll refresh and open the latest version everytime someone clicks on it?

What's the issue with just having the link to the PDF? It'll refresh and open the latest version everytime someone clicks on it?

Beats me, probably why it isn't something I've ever tried to do and frames is the best guess I can come up with to actually open it.