Why can't I upload a pdf?

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Hello, I am trying to upload a pdf of my resume to one of the tabs of my website. Right now it’s a jpg and the quality of the image is not very sharp. (It looks pixilated.) So I’m hitting Change Image which takes me to the Choose an Image window. I clicked on the Upload Media button and was able to upload the pdf but when I click on it the Choose Image button is greyed out. What do I need to do to Choose the pdf?

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  1. Does the "upload" button with settings "Documents" include PDF's?

  2. Upload pdf files - #4 by psav_wix

  3. Upload pdf public url

Maybe helpful for you.

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So your actual question is how do you embed a PDF document.

Try my tutorial…

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Good morning @codequeen!

First of all thank you for your quick response to my question about how to upload a pdf.

I want to make sure, however, that you don’t think that I’m asking how to enable people visiting my website to upload pdf’s to it. I am a set designer and I have a resume on one of my pages. That resume is currently a jpg but I have been told that the image is pixillated and is not very sharp so I am trying to change it to a pdf – hoping that will be sharper. If you want to look at it – my website is: CosmasDemetriou.com.

I’m looking at your tutorial but still am having trouble with it. I open Wix.com, click on Edit Site and go to the Resume page and double click on the jpg of my resume. I click on Change Image and get taken to the Choose Image dialogue where I have already uploaded the pdf of my resume. When I click on it, though-- the Choose Image button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen stays greyed out. It’s not available to change the jpg of my resume to the pdf.

My question is - how do I get the Choose Image button to become available?

Thank you.

Cosmas

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Good morning @CODE-NINJA!

First of all thank you for your quick response to my question about how to upload a pdf.

I want to make sure, however, that you don’t think that I’m asking how to enable people visiting my website to upload pdf’s to it. I am a set designer and I have a resume on one of my pages. That resume is currently a jpg but I have been told that the image is pixillated and is not very sharp so I am trying to change it to a pdf – hoping that will be sharper. If you want to look at it – my website is: CosmasDemetriou.com.

I’m looking at your tutorial but still am having trouble with it. I open Wix.com, click on Edit Site and go to the Resume page and double click on the jpg of my resume. I click on Change Image and get taken to the Choose Image dialogue where I have already uploaded the pdf of my resume. When I click on it, though-- the Choose Image button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen stays greyed out. It’s not available to change the jpg of my resume to the pdf.

My question is - how do I get the Choose Image button to become available?

Thank you.

Cosmas

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Well!

An → IMAGE ← is not a → PDF <— and a PDF-FILE is not an → IMAGE.

Those are 2 totaly different file-formats.
And this is why you are not allowed to upload a PDF inside an IMAGE-ELEMENT-WRAPPER!

Even the Wix-Editor gives you this hint exactly at this point…

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This is inside your FILE-DIALOGUE…(RIGHT-BOTTOM-CORNER-BUTTON)

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You simply can’t load a PDF inside an IMAGE-ELEMENT, because a PDF is NOT AN IMAGE !

However, how to resolve your issue?

I think you will have 2 different options!

a) You use a SVG-Picture instead of another image-format.
Only the SVG image-format will make sure that the resolution of your RESUME will always be 100% and will not get pixelated if the resolution rises up!

You can serach onle for a IMAGE-CONVERTER, who can manage such a converstion from for example (png, jpeg, jpg, bmp…) to → SVG)

Here you will find one…

  1. SVG-Konverter — Convertio
  2. https://www.adobe.com/de/express/feature/image/convert/svg
  3. https://picsvg.com/

Try one of those or search for another one by your own.

Upload your RESUME and convert it to a SVG-Image-Format.
Then REFRESH your IMAGE on your site.

Option-2:
Instead of opening an IMAGE → you open a PDF-FILE:

How to integrate a pdf file on your webpage?

You can add an iFrame-Element to show a PDF-FILE…

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Entering CODE or simply a website-address (URL)
The URL you will get after you have uploaded the PDF-FILE to your wix-file-manager (which has been done by you already)
Now open the file-manager, find your uploaded PDF-file and click onto the 3-DOTS to open the context-menu of the PDF-FILE. There you will find the URL of the UPLOADED-PDF-FILE.

Then use the URL and paste it to the HTML-Component and SAVE your setup!

Update your Website and run it. Now inside the new added HTML-Component → you should see the loaded PDF-FILE!

And the ANSWER to your QUESTION…

My question is - how do I get the Choose Image button to become available?

You get the BUTTON available again → as soon as you chose an IMAGE-Format one of (bmp, png, jpeg, jpg, gif and so on), because this button will accept only image file-formats.

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Yes, I understand the steps you took to try to replace an image with a PDF.

It is not possible. You cannot change “image” and select a PDF. It is not compatible. They are two different file types.

The only way to “add” a PDF to a page is by using a PDF viewer, embed it as a flipbook or link it i an existing button or existing icon/picture.

If you want the resume to “appear” on the page so people can read it “right there”. The. you need to embed a PDF viewer app or embed a flipbook.

If you don’t want to display your resume on the page, and instead you want someone to click on “an icon” or a button that OPENS the PDf in another Window, then add any picture or icon. After adding it to the page, click on the image and select the LINK icon. It should be a few choices to the right side of the “change image” button that you selected before. Then Wix will allow you link the image to an existing PDF file that you have uploaded already. Once someone clicks on that button or image, Wix will open your PDF file in a new window where people will be able to “read it” or download it.

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Thank you @codequeen. My resume is just one page so I don’t think that I need a flipbook, right? So that leaves using a pdf viewer. Does that cost something? How do I do it?

Thank you, again.

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