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Darrell M
Darrell M
Inspiring
April 2, 2025
Question

Hyperlinking to a specific zoom level in destination

  • April 2, 2025
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Hello

Is it possible to have a hyperlink take a user to a very specific zoomed in area of a page? For example, if I have a number of small diagrams on one page, can a hyperlinks take me to a view that is zoomed in to one of those diagrams? I've tried "Inherit Zoom" but it doesn't appear to work or I'm just doing it incorrectly.

 

Any help will be much appreciated.

2 replies

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
April 3, 2025

Probably not, without a display platform that supports Javascript or something like it. There's no inherent function in any interactive platform I know of that would support it directly, not even HTML/CSS.

 

Remember that all interactive documents are far more dependent on the document/reader platform than on what creates it.

 

ETA: the only workable method might be to include pages that contain only your destination diagram, and link to those at "Fit Page" zoom.

Joel Cherney
Community Expert
Joel CherneyCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 3, 2025

I don't believe you can do this in InDesign, no. If you make a link in InDesign and export to PDF, then you can edit the link in Acrobat using the Forms tool,  and in the Actions tab you can assign it the Go To a Page View action, which lets you set the desired zoom level.  

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
April 3, 2025

Even assuming the requirement of genuine™ Acrobat Reader, is there any method of zooming to a particular page area? Or would it inherently center on the new page?

Joel Cherney
Community Expert
Joel CherneyCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 3, 2025

Well yes, assuming Acrobat, if you follow the instructions I posted, then when you select "Go to a Page View" then it'll spawn a little dialog telling you to zoom in to the target:

 

 

Works great when the PDF is viewed in Acrobat. I'm certain that it doesn't work in Chrome's native PDF viewer. I think it works in Preview & Foxit but I haven't tested it in a long time, or had either viewer as a target for interactive PDF for a long time, to be honest. Interactive PDF outside of Acrobat is an unreliable format. 

 

 

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