How to: Add Internal anchors to a PDF and then link from an external webpage?

Report · Mar 17, 2008

Hi,

I work in email marketing and create html emails that we send through our own web based system. I am just wondering if it is possible at all to create internal anchors with unique urls that I can then link to from my html email as a hyperlink?

The client has created the PDF and I am wondering if I can create the anchors and when linking to these anchors from my email, it downloads the file and opens to that specific anchor location?

Thanks in advance.

Report · Mar 18, 2008

You can add Named Destinations to a PDF document. You can use this Named Destinations in web links:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf

Report · Mar 18, 2008

Thanks Bernd! It worked exactly as I needed.

Regards.

Report · Mar 19, 2008

I seem to having a new issue with this task. Thanks to Bernd I have managed to create named destinations within the PDF document. From there I have then created the email and linked the pdf url with the destination tag to open to that location. However what we're finding now is that once the PDF has been downloaded once, if you go back to the email and select another link it opens the PDF in the last viewed state.

This client has created one PDF containing many different articles. In the email she has created a table of contents and wants to link from each listed article to that destination in the PDF. But once you have clicked on one link, shut down browser, go back to the email and select another link it just opens what you were viewing last. Is this a cache issues? Are we using the named destination method in the correct manner?

We tried suggesting, linking once to the PDF and then from the PDF creating a table of contents with internal anchors however the client doesn't want this.

Suggestions?

Report · Mar 19, 2008

Try this:
Disable the entry 'Restore last view settings when reopening documents' in the preferences.