[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":144},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fshare-google-doc-as-pdf-link":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":135,"extension":136,"faq":137,"meta":138,"navigation":139,"path":140,"seo":141,"stem":142,"__hash__":143},"content\u002Fshare-google-doc-as-pdf-link.md","Share a Google Doc as a PDF link",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":127},"minimark",[9,14,18,23,26,30,42,51,55,62,65,92,95,99,102,124],[10,11,13],"h1",{"id":12},"how-to-share-a-google-doc-as-a-pdf-link","How to share a Google Doc as a PDF link",[15,16,17],"p",{},"You wrote it in Google Docs, but the person on the other end should receive a PDF: a clean, portable file that opens anywhere and doesn’t invite comments or edits. There are three ways to get from doc to PDF link. Here’s what each one costs you.",[19,20,22],"h2",{"id":21},"option-1-download-and-attach","Option 1: download and attach",[15,24,25],{},"File, Download, PDF. Attach it to an email or upload it somewhere. You get a proper PDF, but it’s frozen the moment you export it. Edit the doc tomorrow and every copy you sent today is stale. The next update means exporting again and re-sending to everyone, and hoping they open the new file instead of the old one.",[19,27,29],{"id":28},"option-2-make-the-doc-public-and-use-the-export-url","Option 2: make the doc public and use the export URL",[15,31,32,33,37,38,41],{},"Google Docs has a URL trick: share the doc with “Anyone with the link”, then swap ",[34,35,36],"code",{},"\u002Fedit"," for ",[34,39,40],{},"\u002Fexport?format=pdf"," in the address. That URL now downloads a PDF of the current doc. It stays current, which is a real improvement over attachments.",[15,43,44,45,50],{},"The catch: your doc has to be public to anyone holding the link, the URL is welded to one doc ID, and it dies the day you replace the doc or tighten sharing. We wrote up the full failure modes in ",[46,47,49],"a",{"href":48},"\u002Fgoogle-docs-export-format-pdf","the export?format=pdf trick, and when it breaks",".",[19,52,54],{"id":53},"option-3-a-stable-pdf-link-that-stays-private","Option 3: a stable PDF link that stays private",[15,56,57,61],{},[46,58,60],{"href":59},"\u002F","via"," turns a private Google Doc into a stable PDF link. The doc stays private in your Drive, readers only ever get the PDF, and every visit re-exports the current doc, so the link never goes stale.",[15,63,64],{},"It takes three steps:",[66,67,68,76,86],"ol",{},[69,70,71,75],"li",{},[72,73,74],"strong",{},"Connect your doc."," Sign in with Google and pick the doc through the Google Picker, Google’s own file chooser. Picking it is what gives via read access to that one file, and nothing else in your Drive.",[69,77,78,81,82,85],{},[72,79,80],{},"Get your link."," Something like ",[34,83,84],{},"getvia.io\u002Fd\u002Fyour-resume",". Clean, short, yours.",[69,87,88,91],{},[72,89,90],{},"Share it forever."," Every visit exports a fresh PDF of the current doc. Edit freely; the link never goes stale.",[15,93,94],{},"Readers don’t need a Google account. The link serves a plain PDF that opens in any browser.",[19,96,98],{"id":97},"which-one-should-you-use","Which one should you use?",[15,100,101],{},"If the document will never change, an attachment is fine. If it’s a living document, the link needs to outlive the file:",[103,104,105,113,121],"ul",{},[69,106,107,108,112],{},"Sharing ",[46,109,111],{"href":110},"\u002Fshare-resume-pdf-link","your résumé"," in profiles and applications, without making the doc public.",[69,114,115,116,120],{},"Sending clients ",[46,117,119],{"href":118},"\u002Falways-current-pdf-link","a rate card or proposal that’s always current",", never last quarter’s attachment.",[69,122,123],{},"Press kits, handbooks, one-pagers: anything you update more than you’d like to re-send.",[15,125,126],{},"The free plan is one link, forever. That’s enough to retire your most re-sent PDF today.",{"title":128,"searchDepth":129,"depth":129,"links":130},"",2,[131,132,133,134],{"id":21,"depth":129,"text":22},{"id":28,"depth":129,"text":29},{"id":53,"depth":129,"text":54},{"id":97,"depth":129,"text":98},"Three ways to turn a Google Doc into a PDF link, and how to get one stable URL that always serves the latest version while the doc stays private.","md",null,{},true,"\u002Fshare-google-doc-as-pdf-link",{"title":5,"description":135},"share-google-doc-as-pdf-link","x_NBxpFGSAdABWdrrWKqMgkPZFcCQZodsWIT3PSAI0Y",1784301667095]