How do I turn a PDF into a link people can click?

worth knowing the drive link opens google's preview page, not the bare pdf, and on phones it sometimes nudges people into the drive app. fine for most things. if it's going on a flyer or a qr code, open it on a phone that isn't signed into your google account first. some work accounts block sharing outside the company and outsiders just get an access denied page.

Upload it somewhere that gives you a public URL. Easiest is Google Drive: upload, right click > Share, change general access to "anyone with the link", copy. If you have a website, put it in the media library instead and use that file URL, it looks more professional than a drive link and you can replace the file later without the link changing (as long as the filename stays the same).