PDFs and other files

If you need to use PDFs or other types of downloadable files in your prototype beyond images, you can create folders for them within app/assets/.

For example, you could create app/assets/pdfs/ for PDFs or app/assets/symptoms/ for a collection of downloadable documents about symptoms.

Use the folder names when linking to the files in your prototype.

For example if you create a subfolder in assets called downloads and add a PDF named report.pdf, link to it like this:

<a href="/assets/downloads/report.pdf">Download report (PDF, 1MB)</a>

Do not put files directly in public because it’s deleted and rebuilt every time you make a change to your prototype.

We avoid publishing PDFs, however. Read the guidance on PDFs and other non-HTML documents in the service manual.