Link to a PDF, opening at a specific page

[andrew morrison]

Hi

I'm new to tiddlywiki. it looks powerful and agile.

I have a large library of PDF files that I want to be able to jump into at specific pages on a given resource (much like how people might put post-it notes on pages of interest on a paper copy of a book). I've worked out how to link to the external resource, but haven't got to open at a specific page. Is this possible?

[Mark S.]

According to Adobe, you put #page=00 where 00 is your page number on the end of your pdf URL. Just tested and it works with _canonical_uri, so I imagine it works with external links as well.

-- Mark

[andrew morrison]

You're right that this is how Adobe advise to link to a page, but I'm not sure if i can do that from within a tiddlywiki text format 

[ext[Link Text|Filename.pdf#page=4]] successfully opens the file in the PDF reader as I'd like it to but at the first page

[Mark S.]

I just tried this on mine, and it worked as advertised:

[ext[Oedipus Wrecks|Oedipus-Rex.pdf#page=4]]

But there's a lot of issues. What platform are you on? What browser? Are you using a relative path (as in your example) or an absolute path? Are you using a local TW file or one served up by node ?

Good luck!

-- Mark

[andrew morrison]

I was trying to use tiddlydesktop to help me with how to save the file in a manner similar to a desktop program like word. when i launched the tiddly file in chrome, it then worked as it should have. now i just need to nail down how to save in the original folder as I'm using relative paths - i'll RTFM and hopefully it'll outline that there :-)

Thank you for your help.

[Mark S.]

Using from a regular browser, the relative paths start wherever the TW file is located. The tricky part, as you probably know, is how to save the TW file.

I just booted up TD and can verify that the page=xx doesn't work for me either. I suspect that TD has to especially handle the PDF, and in the process the extraneous arguments get scraped off. When running from the browser, there is no special handling and it's all up to the browser and operating system.

Good luck!

-- Mark