Open PDF at a chapter
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Open PDF at a chapter
Hello all,
I am working on a manual for my application which is a PDF document I build with MS-Word and it has a chapter (and sub chapters) for each application feature.
I want to open this PDF at the chapter that relates to the application feature I place the Help button at.
Is it possible to open a PDF with chapters at a chapter or at a paragraph?
Regards,
Paul
I am working on a manual for my application which is a PDF document I build with MS-Word and it has a chapter (and sub chapters) for each application feature.
I want to open this PDF at the chapter that relates to the application feature I place the Help button at.
Is it possible to open a PDF with chapters at a chapter or at a paragraph?
Regards,
Paul
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Re: Open PDF at a chapter
As a poisonous so-and-so I would first ask:
How do you differentiate (electronically) between a chapter and a paragraph?
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
I would be inclined to mark chapter divisions with some sort of invisible control chaarcter that LiveCode could pick up on.
How do you differentiate (electronically) between a chapter and a paragraph?
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
I would be inclined to mark chapter divisions with some sort of invisible control chaarcter that LiveCode could pick up on.
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Re: Open PDF at a chapter
It will probably depend on the reader app, but Adobe provides a way to do that with a hashtag appended to the URL:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/link ... robat.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/link ... robat.html
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Re: Open PDF at a chapter
Thanks for pointing me to the right direction.
After some testing I found that :
1) placing after the pdf URL makes the pdf go to page 5
2) using does not work yet but might be part of Google Chrome Canary (a beta version is downloadable).
Thanks again and be safe.
Paul
After some testing I found that :
1) placing
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#page=5
2) using
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#nameddest=<destination name>
Thanks again and be safe.
Paul
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Re: Open PDF at a chapter
Pages and Chapters are NOT the same thing.
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Re: Open PDF at a chapter
True, but at least I can point to a page which at this moment is sufficient for me because the pdf is a manual and does not change that much.