Question

I have tried the suggestions in Linking to Pages or Destinations Within PDFs at http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/article.asp?contentid=6426&ra without success. Can this be done in TWiki?

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-- DaveJohnson - 23 May 2006

Answer

Taking GenPDFAddOn as an example it generates destinations in the pdf for HTML headings as well as HTML anchors per default. On top of this you can of course use HTMLDOC syntax in the TWiki topic for adding your own extra destinations in the generated pdf.

So it is indeed possible both to generate a pdf with destinations from TWiki content, and afterwards link to the specific destinations using the TWiki_GenPDFAddOn.pdf#nameddest=known_bugs syntax.

• http://www.twiki.org/p/pub/Support/LinkToSpecificPdfLocation/TWiki_GenPDFAddOn.pdf - direct link
• http://www.twiki.org/p/pub/Support/LinkToSpecificPdfLocation/TWiki_GenPDFAddOn.pdf#nameddest=known_bugs - to named destination
• http://www.twiki.org/p/pub/Support/LinkToSpecificPdfLocation/TWiki_GenPDFAddOn.pdf#page=3 - to page number

If this missed your point, feel free to ask again

-- SteffenPoulsen - 23 May 2006

I have an existing pdf I'm trying to link to. Even when I add #page=121 it still takes me to the beginning.

I didn't think the pdf needed to be specially prepared for a page reference, and that for a named destination all it needed was an existing link. Is that not right?

-- DaveJohnson - 24 May 2006

You'll have to upload it somewhere to allow us to take a look (attach it here, perhaps?). Up front I'd say there should be no problem in linking to page references no matter how the pdf was prepared.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 24 May 2006

The actual pdf I was using is over 900KB but here's a similar one. If I can't link to 'Restoring Messages' as least I should be able to link to page 11.

-- DaveJohnson - 24 May 2006

I wonder what would be wrong with your setup, linking to it using http://www.twiki.org/p/pub/Support/LinkToSpecificPdfLocation/TS_CollaborativePlatform10_Vol2_WorkingWithTheMessageCatalog.pdf#page=11 works alright here (there are no destinations in the pdf, so nothing to link to there).

Perhaps this is related to your browser setup? You don't mention what browser you are using, but I tested the links in Firefox and Internet Explorer here (with a default acrobat reader setup).

-- SteffenPoulsen - 24 May 2006

When I try your same link, http://twiki.org/p/pub/Support/LinkToSpecificPdfLocation/TS_CollaborativePlatform10_Vol2_WorkingWithTheMessageCatalog.pdf#page=11 , I get page 1. So I guess it's not the size of the pdf either. I'll investigate my IE settings. Thanks for the help.

-- DaveJohnson - 24 May 2006

This was resolved by checking 'Display PDF in Browser' in Adobe preferences.

-- DaveJohnson - 26 May 2006