Ideal development workflow?

[Casey O'Hara]

When developing PDFs using Prawn, I usually write a script that regenerates the PDF and writes it to file on a loop. I then open the PDF in Chrome, and as I make changes to the PDF I will go to Chrome and refresh the page, just as I would if I was developing a webpage.

This only works great if I am working on a single page PDF, because unlike a webpage, Chrome does not remember the zoom or scroll position between refreshes so I need to zoom out and scroll down in order to see anything beyond the first page.

Has anyone figured out a better workflow for developing more complex PDFs where you can tweak the code and preview the change almost immediately?

Thanks,

-Casey

[Thomas Leitner]

On 2017-04-19 12:19 -0700 Casey O'Hara wrote:
> This only works great if I am working on a single page PDF, because
> unlike a webpage, Chrome does not remember the zoom or scroll
> position between refreshes so I need to zoom out and scroll down in
> order to see anything beyond the first page.

Have a look at
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/link-html-pdf-page-acrobat.html
where it is explained how to jump to a certain page or destination.
Tried it in Chromium and works.

Cheers
Thomas