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Hyperlink to Acrobat Page Test

To the Reader:

When an Abode Acrobat file is opened from a hyperlink, the first page is the default value for the document.

The question posed to me was whether a hyperlink could open a specific page within an Acrobat file.

The answer is yes; Acrobat supports opening a .pdf file to a specific location using an open parameter.

Click here to test the open parameter.

 

The variable #page=n was added to the document URI to create the hyperlink.

The URI for the above example (after adding the domain) is:

/cms/fileadmin/user_upload/academics/CentenaryCollegeCatalog.pdf#page=77

The parameter supports target, title and alt properties.

The source for this solution is found here:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf

 

Please note: This parameter will only work for Web pages, and not MS Office documents such as Word or Publisher. Also, TYPO3 will render special characters in ASCII decimal format when used in a regular text content element. The desired link must be created as a separate HTML content element, as this page demonstrates.