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Dezdan

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Aug 19, 2003, 2:59:36 AM8/19/03
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Hello,

When you use HTML, you can link a certain place in the file by using the 'a name="name"' tag along with a link such as www.something.com/index.html#name as the URL.

I know you can do the same from within a PDF file (bookmarks), but can you link to a particular place/page from outside the PDF file as you can with HTML? For example, I have a 140 page PDF file, and from an HTML document I would like to link to page 57 of the PDF, how would I do that?

Thank you for your help,
~Dan

PS: If I missed a topic on this and/or you know of a website that describes how to do this, please don't waste your breath/time, a link will do me fine! TY

Aandi Inston

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Aug 19, 2003, 4:15:13 AM8/19/03
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Sample URL
http://www.quite.com/books/apu14.pdf#page=10

Aandi Inston

Ian Burton

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Aug 19, 2003, 5:52:02 AM8/19/03
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I tried this link to page 10, using Acrobat 5.0.5 that comes up if I click in the browser on a PDF. I also tried the link with Reader 6 already running. Both Acrobat 5.0.5 and Reader 6 display the first page of the file and not page 10. My browser is IE 6 with all MS Patches. OS is Win 2K Pro with all patches.

Both Acrobat 5.0.5 and Reader 6 were setup to open new windows (not open the file in the browser). If I reconfigure Acrobat 5.0.5 to open the PDF in the browser, then the jump to page 10 works. I assume this would also work for Reader 6.

Seems this is another Acrobat feature that works well if the end user has setup their kit with appropriate options.
FWIW
Ian

Dezdan

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Aug 19, 2003, 1:31:46 PM8/19/03
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Thank you for your help, and your example jumped to page ten for me like it was suppose to. Now the only problem I am having is when I do the same, my PDF doesn't even open. I get the classic 'Cannot find server or DNS Error'. Now, I am doing this off of my hard drive, and everything is linked up correctly, am I missing something? It is funny cause if I remove the page part in the tag, the document opens, but with the page portion of the tag there, I get nothing. My tag looks like (<> left out):

a href="pdfs/California.pdf#page=15"

Thank You!
~Dan

Tobias Hugener

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Aug 19, 2003, 1:48:01 PM8/19/03
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#page works only when the PDF is served by a webserver. It doesn't work locally.

Tobias

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