Links to PDF's can be made to target specific places in the document by appending a number/pound (#) sign to the end of the URL, followed by "page=[number]:
Example: target page 10
http://server.com/title.pdf#page=10
Example: Target a named destination:
http://server.com/title.pdf#destination_name
Thanks to the PowerPoint FAQ for this tip.
It is also possible to control what happens when the document opens - which view, what zoom, etc. See Link to PDFs from HTML -- The PowerPoint FAQ for more details.
Note: this works most consistently with absolute links, and not at all with file-system links (c:\folder\)
Relative links that target specific pages within a pdf may work in some browsers, but some people will merely be directed to the first page of the pdf.
More information:
Link from an HTML page to a specific page in PDF file (Acrobat 7.x, Acrobat 3D)
Link to PDFs from HTML -- The PowerPoint FAQ
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Posted by ellen at February 17, 2005 05:04 PM