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Saved by 4 people (-1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-07-16


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on 2007-07-16 by charles

If someone sends you a read-only version of a Google document or spreadsheet and you want to download it as a PDF and link to that PDF from your site, there's an easy way to do it.

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Open Word, File=>Open, Type URL and Enter.

Your document is open !

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A published spreadsheet has an address that looks like this: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=[ID]. To get the address for a different format, you need to append &output=, followed by the extension of the format. For example, http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=[ID]&output=xls for Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Other valid output formats: pdf, ods (for OpenOffice spreadsheets), csv, txt.

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Published documents have a similar URL: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=[ID]. To obtain the address for another format, you'll have to use the docid parameter:
http://docs.google.com/MiscCommands?command=saveasdoc&
exportformat=[FORMAT]&docID=[ID], where [FORMAT] can have one of these values: pdf, doc, oo (for OpenOffice documents), rtf, txt.

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in the case of spreadsheets, the method described above lets you actually link to the file in a different format and people that click on the link don't need to have a Google account. For documents, a visitor of your site has to log in with his/her Google account before clicking on the link

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If someone sends you a read-only version of a Google document or spreadsheet and you want to download it as a PDF and link to that PDF from your site, there's an easy way to do it.

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