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aschouten
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:25 am link to bookmark in pdf |
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| 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? |
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PayneLess Designs
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
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Location: Biloxi, MS
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:15 am |
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You can't link to bookmarks in PDF. If you're accustomed to thinking of "bookmarks" in the sense that Microsoft Word uses the term, you'll need to make a few mental adjustments in Acrobat.
Adobe and MS use "bookmark" to mean different things. They're both something like a physical bookmark, a bit of paper you stick between the pages of a book to mark a place you want to return to later. But in Word, a bookmark is the place you want to remember, where in PDF, the bookmark is the paper you're marking your place with.
When you look at a bookmarked physical book, you see little slips of paper sticking out from between pages. When you view a bookmarked PDF, you see bits of text down the left side of the screen in the Bookmarks list.
Inside a PDF, a bookmark contains:
- The text of the bookmark - what you see in the bookmarks list
- A destination - the place you wanted to mark with the bookmark
The destination might be a specific page in the current PDF, it might be a named destination in the PDF or it might be some other action like a link to a URL on the web.
PDF's named destinations are pretty much the same thing as what Word calls bookmarks.
So in Word:
Bookmarks mark places you want to jump TO
You click Hyperlinks to jump to Bookmarks
In PDF:
Named Destinations mark places you want to jump TO
You click Bookmarks to jump to Named Destinations
That should help explain why you can't link to bookmarks in PDF. |
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aschouten
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:21 am |
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| 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. |
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PayneLess Designs
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:40 am |
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| I think every one wished it was possible as it would indeed be a great convenience. Maybe one day. |
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