PDF or Zipped

[Barney McGrew]

My new site will have quite a few documents available to download. The docs will be PDF documents.

Is there a preffered way to have these available to be downloaded. Do I zip each one or just make it clickable so that it opens and then allows the user to save it. I do seem to find that less files are zipped these days.

[Ben]

AFAIK you can change the way PDF are handles in the htaccess (mime types?), so they are downloadable rather that just 'opened' in your browser, that's how I'd do it.

[Barney McGrew]

Never thought of that one. Having just browsed lots of sites this morning, I have not come across one that has them actually zipped so I think having the pdf either open or download is the preferred way?

[Chris H]

Let your end user decide whether to open or save. Much more friendly.