upload pdf zip files

Hi,

I'm new. I want to help clients to my web site upload a pdf zip file of about 1mb size. Is there free server side software to facilitate this? If not, what do you suggest?

Thanks y-all,

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upload the file to your site?

What I mean is they will purchase and download a pdf file. I've tried just zipping it, but it hardly reduces the file size at all (about 1 mb). When I download software, etc., it comes very quickly but the pdf takes a long time. How do I package it to download quickly for my clients?

Thanks

Where are you hosting your site? You probably have a speed limit on your sites internet connection or you are sharing the same server with many websites, making them all a bit slower to load. If you can't reduce the size of the file theres not much you can do to speed up the download but host the file somewhere else.

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when zipping your pdf file, set it to maximum compression.

and its better to give your clients a zip file for download instead of a pdf file since it tends to open acrobat reader on their browser when they click your download link.

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Why don't you just zip it in your pc and upload it for the others?

Anyway if you want to do this on the server there are many php classes for zip. Try phpclasses.org

zipping the file will provide little to no compression, it also makes the pdf unsearchable if its a paid download then you may want that, but if you are giving the pdf away for free, you would be much better of not zipping it, and allowing the search engines to crawl it.

While the default action is for acrobat reader to open it in the browser broadband penetration is such that this is less of a problem, also acrobat reader does provide progressive download so the user won't wait for the whole document to download to view.
Finally you can always tell your users to right click and save as.

But unless you have a good reason putting single pre-compressed file into a zip is a pointless habit, and is just making your users go through hoops, if you don't want search engines to crawl the pdf's simply add a line in your robots.txt file to not crawl your pdf directory.

One final thought if your worried about the size, split the pdf into 2 parts and upload the separately and then offer a zip download of both parts (you will notice improved compression as well it might compress overall by as much as 2&!) in addition to the 2 seperate pdf downloads then you have the best of both worlds.

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