Embed Documents in your Blog with Scribd

In one of the previous publications Embed Documents in your Blog with DocsToc I have presented the opportunity to embed the entire documents in your blog posts for easy viewing. Now, I had an opportunity to test it myself, but, for some reason, my Blogger editor crashed and refused to accept the code. It is possible that the problem is just temporary, but as all of you “I need it now!” So, I went back on the market searching for the good alternative. And, there it is - I found a good one! It is Scribd!

Scribd is allowing to anyone for free to upload any documents on their website, to view them later with online viewer iPaper, and to share with community members and with anybody you like. Built with Adobe Flash, iPaper will display documents in the same way regardless of whether you’re using Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Your readers no longer have to download files or extra software to view your documents.


You can convert just about any major document format into iPaper, including Word docs, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, OpenOffice documents, and PostScript files. Supported formats include:

• Adobe PDF (.pdf)
• Adobe PostScript (.ps)
• Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps, .pptx)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls, xlsx)
• OpenOffice Text Document (.odt, .sxw)
• OpenOffice Presentation Document (.odp, .sxi)
• OpenOffice Spreadsheet (.ods, .sxc)
• All OpenDocument formats
• Plain text (.txt)
• Rich text format (.rtf)

Once you’ve uploaded your documents and converted them to iPaper, you can publish them to Scribd - the world’s largest library of user-generated documents. Scribd documents are indexed by major search engines, so you can broaden your audience and share your creative works with the world.

Scribd’s iPaper document viewer is embeddable in any website or blog. Get your HTML code, embed it in your post, and… see how it looks like:

Inside Your Computer - Upload a Document to Scribd

Read this document on Scribd: Inside Your Computer

Embed Documents in your Blog with DocsToc

An interesting announcement drew my attention today. File hosting service Docstoc (http://www.docstoc.com/) is released a nice alternative solution for sending large attachments to friends, family, and co-workers. A small application, called OneClick (http://www.docstoc.com/oneclick), installed on your computer enables a right-click contextual menu, allowing easily send a file located on your hard drive either publicly or securely to your online free storage. Once the file’s been transferred, you will get a link to the Docstoc-hosted document inserted into a new e-mail message that your recipient can open and read.

Sounds interesting already? When I checked the related site, I found that it provides an interesting solution for the blog owners as well for sharing documents in several popular formats (.doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt) with the blog readers. Embedding the document in the blog or Web Site is easy as ABC. The entire process consists from five steps:

1. Upload your document to Docstoc Web Site, or find a document already residing in your Docstoc account, or any other public accounts. You can even upload document anonymously, if you do not feel like register or login.
2. Get to the page where the document is uploaded.
3. Find the embed code on the right from the document display page and copy the code inside the box in full.
4. Change the embedded object settings if needed (for example, box display box dimensions).
5. Embed the code on your blog or Web Site.

Embed Documents in your Blog with DocsToc