I was wondering if you have had any success on trying to auto-update a PDF yet?

I have been looking for some time also, but not as technically experienced as you are.

Thanks.
(You can email me direct if you wish)
Ted

Caroline, you are programmer, I think you should give it a try!

I have never used this software before but i have purchased a few ebooks in the past which have updated me instantly, of course they were not in Pdf format so this is just for consideration.

For e better exolanation you may like to check out this link.
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h**p://www.htmlexe.com/features.htm

Best of luck!
Daniel

You don’t have email addresses of the people who downloaded your eBook, but I would bet 50-75% of the people that downloaded your eBook are repeat visitors to your blog.

Could Design Farmer create a new nav bar that would include a small starburst graphic directly below (and connected to) your “My Books & Guides” link?

The starburst would mention that your eBook has been updated…that way visitors would know to click on the link to download the most recent version if they’re interested.

I guess you could do a blog post about the new version as well…but the starburst would be a constant reminder.

And then after an X amount of time, you could just swap back in your old nav bar without the starburst.

I don’t know how complicated this would be to do, but I bet it would work.

-Ryan

I noticed When we type in “auto-update pdf files” on google this post is showing as N°1 on the results page.

Anyway your post reminds me in my past job on 2004 when I wanted to mix online & offline content into the help file (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help, CHM file) so our customers can always have access to updated informations. The starting point of idea is here

So maybe you can release a CHM version of your ebook pointing to pages on your website.

By the way that’s definitively a niche for internet marketing if someone (maybe you Caroline) develop a plug in for adobe acrobat to auto-update PDF files trough internet. Adobe inc. will certainly pay millions for that, knowing also that ever ebook publisher will do it also.

So who wants to take the challenge :-)

I do this for a medical records transfer application using PDF’s embedded in encrypted XML that’s distributed by a web service but that’s not a viable public solution since it requires an application other than Adobe on the users’ systems.

One way you could do it would be to setup an update page on your site and point to it from your PDF. The nice thing with that is it will make it easy for you to try out new affiliate offers on your update landing page.

Never say never, but even Aaron Wall got fed up with his PDF-based SEOBook. At least, that’s the impression I got from a recent email.

Rather than fret over this issue, just put a big ‘ol “CHECK FOR UPDATES” link at the bottom of every page.

Then, just use revision numbers on each updated edition.

There is another option, which is not as good – expire each edition.
http://www.adobe.com/security/pdfs/acrobat_security_wp.pdf

Cheers,

Mitch

what a great idea!! Never thought of that but it sure would be a clever thing to have.
Anybody out there who could do that?
I would jump on that piece of software right away.

Have a nice weekend
Regards
Kirsten