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keithroby
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July 20, 2006
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button linking to PDF

  • July 20, 2006
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standard convention to link to a specific page of a PDF document is to do this:

http://www.mydomain.com/myPDF.pdf#page=7

i apply this to the 'open url/file' in the button properties "on success/user clicks button", but all that happens is the PDF opens to page 1. never to the appropriate page in the document.

any ideas as to what could cause this?

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    Captiv8r
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    July 20, 2006
    Hi keithroby

    I stand to be corrected here, but it sounds like you are attempting to do this locally, with the .PDF on a CD-ROM or otherwise locally. I don't believe it's possible to link to PDFs in this manner when they are local. They will always open at page 1. I think one way to confirm this would be to test by clicking the Windows Start button, clicking Run... and entering the syntax into the field.

    Cheers... Rick
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    keithrobyAuthor
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    July 20, 2006
    sorry -- i have a captivate output file (SWF) residing within a Captivateplayer, which resides on our LAN. in the SWF are a series of buttons that all link to unique pages within on PDF, which resides on our intranet.

    i fixed one problem. turns out somebody uploaded a recent edition of the PDF complete with a SPACE in the name. fixed that up and now i've got a little bit closer to fixing the issue.

    now, when clicking one of the buttons in the SWF, the PDF will open to the appropriate page. GREAT! but when i close the PDF (or extra browser session), and click a DIFFERENT button that links to a different page in the PDF, the same previous page opens...as if it's CACHED. thing is, to rule out this being an IE cache/history thing, i forced adobe to open the file itself and to not integrate with the internet explorer. ...and the same thing happened.

    what could cause this?
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