If I understand what you are saying then you will never load the pdf
files as I am understanding you are using a URL that will be pointing
to your computer location of these files while these files need to be
accessed from your server.
Why don’t you just create a folder on your server called ‘pdf’ using a
ftp client like Transmit and then upload all your pdf files there.
Lets say these are called:
my_pdf_1.php
my_pdf_2.php
my_pdf_3.php
then if you want to link ‘my_pdf_1.php’ to some text that says ‘PDF
one download’ then select that text, select ‘Hyperlink…’ from the
‘Edit’ menu, in the window that opens select the ‘External’ tab and
type the following:
/pdf/my_pdf_1.php
Then close the window.
What you have just done is to tell the ‘PDF one download’ text to link
to the URL of ‘http://yourwebsite.com/pdf/my_pdf_1.php’, just do the
same with the others and upload your web site, all should then work as
you expect it to.
It is best not to have any spaces in the names of the pdf files, as
you see I have used an underslash where someone might otherwise use a
space.
HTH
On Dec 13, 2009, at 3:42 PM, James L. Ryan wrote:
I’m helping my good friend Nancy Gravley with a website she is
developing in Freeway, and she is having difficulty providing access
to .pdf files via hyperlinks.
Here’s what is currently done…
a) create a number of .pdf files and place them on the web on the
same server as will host the site itself.
b) using Get Info find the source http:// address for the hyperlinks.
c) create the text on the Freeway page that will be the click point
from which the user will access the .pdf.
d) using the link facility associate the http:// address with the
linking text.
The problem is that the resulting .pdf is accessible from Preview in
Browser but not from the uploaded site.
So…
Just what magic needs to be done to get things to work? 
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