{"id":2408,"date":"2017-08-16T18:59:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2023-09-13T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:08:10","slug":"pdf-upload-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/2017\/08\/16\/pdf-upload-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"PDF upload problem &#8211; Fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have had reports with a problem uploading PDF files to Glow Blogs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This issue is now fixed, here is an example 3 page PDF uploaded to blogs:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2017\/08\/3page.pdf\">Test PDF file<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PDFs that are uploaded \u00a0to blogs are linked to the \u00a0image thumbnails of the pdf. This looks like the first page of the pdf.<\/p>\n<p>The developers are investigating a fix which we will be implemented as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We have a workaround at rather kludgy workaround.<\/p>\n<p>You can upload pdfs somewhere else on the internet and link to them in your blog.<\/p>\n<p>The O365 OneDrive provide by Glow is a good place to do this. After uploading a PDF to one drive you can &#8216;share&#8217; it. Make it public\u00a0and copy the link. In the blog post you want to add the pdf to you can, instead of uploading the file, link directly to it like this: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/g\/personal\/gw09johnstonjohn4_glowmail_org_uk\/ESt0Et3vwbFEq7944A2-xsoBcAKq2Uffsid0t3L67ymMqg?e=YQ0PmE\">Download Test PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2408-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"332\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2017\/08\/onedrive-pdf-on-glowblog.mp4?_=1\" \/><track srclang=\"en\" label=\"English\" kind=\"subtitles\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2017\/08\/06190624\/no-audio.srt\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2017\/08\/onedrive-pdf-on-glowblog.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2017\/08\/onedrive-pdf-on-glowblog.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had reports with a problem uploading PDF files to Glow Blogs. This issue is now fixed, here is an example 3 page PDF uploaded to blogs:\u00a0Test PDF file PDFs that are uploaded \u00a0to blogs are linked to the \u00a0image thumbnails of the pdf. This looks like the first page of the pdf. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/2017\/08\/16\/pdf-upload-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PDF upload problem &#8211; Fixed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8616,298054],"tags":[851829],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixed-issues","category-news","tag-pdf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}