pdf not loading

[cnut1648]

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• I carefully read and followed the Getting Started guide.
• I read through FAQ and searched through the past issues, none of which addressed my issue.
• The issue I am raising is a potential bug in al-folio and not just a usage question.
  [For usage questions, please post in the Discussions instead of raising an issue.]

Describe the bug

Hi, I have a page in the _posts that looks like this

---
layout: page
title: "A Title"
categories:
 - cat1
 - cat2
nav: true
permalink: /files/1.pdf
---

and I have put a 1.pdf in the files folder. However when I open that post, although the link indeed is redirected to the xxx/files/1.pdf, I receive the error

Failed to load PDF document.

I'm wondering what might cause such issue. I double checked that I can open the pdf just fine using local machine; and I also think my syntax is correct: I tried to do something similar for the CV and it was fine; and I checked that the permission is 777 (not sure if this is important).
Thanks!!!

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: manjaro
• Browser (and its version) Chromium 96.0.4664.110 Arch Linux
• Jekyll version 4.2.1
• Ruby version ruby 3.0.3p157 (2021-11-24 revision 3fb7d2cadc) [x86_64-linux]

[alshedivat]

I'm not sure if the way you are trying to link a PDF is standard for Jekyll. I'm getting the same error and the following message in the console during the local build:

Conflict: The following destination is shared by multiple files.
The written file may end up with unexpected contents.
/Users/maruan/Documents/dev/al-folio/master/_site/assets/pdf/example_pdf.pdf
 - /Users/maruan/Documents/dev/al-folio/master/assets/pdf/example_pdf.pdf
 - /Users/maruan/Documents/dev/al-folio/master/_posts/2022-01-15-pdf.md

what happens is that Jekyll generates HTML blog page that overrides your original PDF. all the generated files are located under _site/ folder. you can check this by looking at _site/files/1.pdf in your case. I don't think you can redirect a blog post page to a PDF file via permalink. one way to go about this is add redirect field to the blog post header and add some custom logic to blog/index.html that handles it.

supporting blog posts that redirect users to arbitrary pages (including PDFs) would be a nice feature. it would be awesome if you could send a PR!

[cnut1648]

Thanks!! I created a PR #550 for this!! This is now working fine in my website