Controlling page display in Web browsers (Chrome/Edge) when displaying a cross reference in a PDF

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August 27, 2025
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In FrameMaker I have many cross references where the target destination is a Figure Caption. When I create a PDF, and view the PDF in Acrobat, when I click the link the full page containing the referenced caption is displayed. This is good in that it allows me to immediately see both the caption and the associated figure (my figure captions are all set to stay with the preceding paragraph). If I view the same PDF using Chrome or Edge, when I click the link it displays the referenced caption at the top of the window, so I have to scroll up further to see the associated figure. What I would like is either:
a) all PDF pages appeared as discrete Full pages in Chrome and Edge, or
b) you could scroll continuously through the pages (with the page breaks moving up the screen) but when you clicked a reference to a figure caption it would display the full page containing the target destination then allow you to resume scrolling continuously.

This may be really basic, but if there's a FrameMaker or Acrobat setting that addresses this, I did not find it.

I found an Adobe Plug-In from Evermap called AutoBookmark that sounds like it might be one way to accomplish this, but I wanted to check first that I wasn't overlooking some existing setting in FrameMaker/Acrobat/Chrome/Edge that would be an easier way to accomplish this.

Because multiple applications are involved (FrameMaker, Acrobat, and one or more browsers) I wasn't sure this is possible, or if it was, which application would be the place to control it.

Thanks,

Geoff

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Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

The link is doing exactly what you are telling it to do: It's showing you the figure title that you've referenced.

While you could rig a solution, the best way to display your content is to put the title at the top so that the title is displayed (as you are instructing it to do) and the graphic following is displayed in a logical way.

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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Winfried Reng

Community Expert

Hi Geoff,

As Rick said this is a feature of the browser which you cannot configure. At least not that I know of.

When I click in Acrobat on a cross-reference to a figure title or table title, the cross-reference target (figure title or table title) is at the top of the page. Not as in your case that the full page is shown.

My figure titles and table titles are below the figure/table, and I do not want to change this.

Could it be that you have set the Page Display to Single Page View (in the View menu)?

The only solution which I know of is to move the cross-reference marker in the figure title or table title to the anchor of your table. Then the cross-reference will jump to the marker at the top of the table.

I do not know, if Evermap AutoBookmark does this. This could be scripted with ExtendScript. It should not be too difficult.

Best regards, Winfried

frameexpert

Community Expert

This is likely a function of each browser's PDF viewer plugin. It may be better to have your figure captions above the figures so that when the caption appears at the top of the view port, you will see the illustration below it.

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