# How can I publish my work/document online, for everyone to see, as a PDF?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-publish-my-work-document-online-for-everyone-to-see-as-a-pdf/784934>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 21, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-publish-my-work-document-online-for-everyone-to-see-as-a-pdf/784934 "2017-04-21T17:30:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mislav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mislav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mislav)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-publish-my-work-document-online-for-everyone-to-see-as-a-pdf/784934/1 "2017-04-21T17:30:04Z")

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What websites can I use to perform that action? Can it be done for free? Can I publish it by uploading a “Word” document as a PDF? Any instructions? Can it also be done on a smartphone? If so, how? Would a Notepad document do?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-publish-my-work-document-online-for-everyone-to-see-as-a-pdf/784934/2 "2017-04-21T17:40:52Z")

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Upload it to Google Docs, and set the privacy settings to “public”. That’s about it.

Now, convincing anyone to actually read it and take it seriously, that’s the hard part.