link to bookmark in pdf

aschouten · Joined: 15 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

I'm trying to link from a web page to a bookmark or specific page within a pdf document. Is it possible, if so - how?

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4289 Location: MS

aschouten · Joined: 15 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

Thanks, I was hoping there was a way to insert an anchor into the pdf like you set a bookmark in adobe. It would be convenient if it were possible.

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4289 Location: MS

I think every one wished it was possible as it would indeed be a great convenience. Maybe one day.

smanning · Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 2

You can create a bookmark in a PDF, and then link to it from a web page just like you were linking to a named anchor in a web page:

http://yoursite.com/yourfile.pdf#yourbookmarkname

I'm doing it on a site I'm building right now, and have tested it successfully.

I noticed that it won't work if you create a named destination in the PDF with no corresponding bookmark.

The PDF was created in Acrobat 8.0.

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4289 Location: MS

smanning · Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 2

The URL I provided earlier is fictional. It's just an example of what the URL in your web site should look like, with dummy names - yoursite, yourfile, etc.

Here are the steps.

1. Using Acrobat, create a bookmark in your pdf and give it a name. Its name must follow the same rules as a named anchor in HTML, which basically means it cannot have any spaces in it.

2. Once you're done creating your bookmarks in the pdf, save the pdf and upload it to the web.

3. On your web page, create a link. The link must point to the URL of the pdf file, plus a pound sign #, plus the name of your bookmark. It follows this pattern: http://sitename/filepath/filename.pdf#bookmarkname

The site I'm working on has not been deployed to production yet, so it's not visible to the outside world, but I'll post the URL once it is.

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4289 Location: MS

Thank you. That's a lot more instruction to the Original Poster than what you gave. Now we wait to see if he tries it and it works. Named anchors work just fine, but from web link to embedded PDF link may have its problems.

A lot of that info was given in my links posted earlier about this very same thing.

leadpipes · Joined: 13 Jan 2010 Posts: 1

Hi,

I haven't gotten the bookmark or nameddest links to work yet - possibly due to how those elements were created in the doc I'm targeting and not knowing their correct names, but linking to a specific page number works fine, at least in IE (having some issues in Firefox which replaces %20 in URLs with spaces for some reason).

Format to link to e.g. page 24 in file mydoc.pdf is:
http://www.mysite.com/mydoc.pdf#page=24

That's it!
You can even open the doc to a specific view layout, omit Acrobat toolbar, etc.
For more info see infohttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf#page=5