Would like to be able for customer to download pdf's with out the cart option turned

[DrByte]

Simple. Since what you've described is that you're not using ecommerce for any of your PDF files, simply upload your PDF files to the server someplace, and then in the product description, or in any other place on your site, simply insert an A HREF link to that pdf file. Very basic HTML. Has nothing to do with Zen Cart or ecommerce at all.

Example HTML:

<a href="the_file_name.pdf">The Document Title To Display For Clicking On</a>

[dekalb]

Simple. Since what you've described is that you're not using ecommerce for any of your PDF files, simply upload your PDF files to the server someplace, and then in the product description, or in any other place on your site, simply insert an A HREF link to that pdf file. Very basic HTML. Has nothing to do with Zen Cart or ecommerce at all.

Example HTML:

<a href="the_file_name.pdf">The Document Title To Display For Clicking On</a>

Thanks, Some times I get to looking to hard and forget the basics. Thank you.

[Orkid]

Hi Dr. Byte,
Can you advise why I got this message? after

<a href="http://www.sunruffles.com/images/cert/ReserveCAPeTestResults.pdf"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color:#000080;">Reserve&trade; CAP-e Test Results</span></span></a></p>


Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /images/cert/ReserveCAPeTestResults.pdf on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Thank you. jean

[DrByte]

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /images/cert/ReserveCAPeTestResults.pdf on this server.

Probably because the /images/.htaccess doesn't have "pdf" file extension whitelisted, since a pdf isn't really an image filetype.
Thus the security protections are denying access.
Add pdf to the list of filetypes in /images/.htaccess