Hi,
You’re correct that this is the permalink for the media files attachment page.
A media files attachment page will display a normal page, and depending on what kind of media it is, also display the image, video, audio clip etc.
Since this is a .pdf file, and you can’t display those by default, it only has a page with a link to the actual file on the page.
There is no way to display *the contents* of a PDF in a Page – any page, not just WordPress – PDFs can only be viewed by valid PDF viewers like Adobe Reader, or Preview (for Mac users), or in the Browser if the person has a PDF-viewer add-on for their chosen browser AND they click on a PDF link.
What you CAN do is post a LINK to your PDF, that your site visitors can choose to click on, or not. The easiest way to do that is create a Post or Page, and in the text (content) for that page, include a link by typing some text (like “download my super cool PDF”) then select (highlight) that text, and use the “Link” button at the top to paste in the link to your media file (PDF).
Also, it’s considered good etiquette to tell people how LARGE the PDF file is so they can decide whether or not to download it – this is important to people on slow connections, mobile devices, or limited data plans. I would suggest that your link (either inside or outside of the actual hyperlink) include some text to tell them the file size – typically I would do something like this:
Download my super-cool file!” – (PDF file, 320MB)
I hope this helps!
Thank you very much for your detailed notes, I really appreciate it.
I wonder if it’s possible to customize the link?
For instance, I would like to change
http://mangalamstudio.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Tara-Tsog-Offerings_1.pdf
to a shorter and simpler link like the following
http://mangalamstudio.com/Tara-Tsog-Offerings_1.pdf
Thank you!
