Re: Opening PDF at specified page

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

>> In my testing the PDF always opens at the specified page yet the client
>> insists that in her testing it only ever opens at page 1. I thought that
>> this would be pretty straightforward but I'm stumped as to why it should
>> behave differently. The client is using IE 6.
>
> The client is not using only IE 6. They are also using either the Adobe
> Reader plugin (or an equivalent) or the standalone Adobe Reader (or an
> equivalent). Whether anchors within the PDF document are followed when
> referred to as URI depends on both the browser and the used viewer
> application. Older viewer plugins tend not to support anchors. And
> external viewers tend to not getting anything but the filename from the
> browser, which downloads the resource to a file on the local filesystem
> (temporary directory) first, and then opens the external viewer with that
> file.
>
> Probably one of the former is the case with your client, while you are using
> more a recent viewer as a plugin. Check incompatibilities there; although
> your code is unnecessarily complicated, error-prone and does not degrade
> gracefully, certainly the main reason of the problem is not the code
> because your client said that the PDF document is displayed.

Thanks for the help (lesson?) in JavaScript. Unfortunately I think the
problem is more "serious". I can get a PDF to open at a specified page
from my computer. I have a second computer on which I have loaded IE 6,
with the latest updates, and Acrobat 7.07, which I downloaded today,
installed.

On the second computer any content in the query string of the URL gets
ignored. That is, I cannot set pagemode, destination, page...

Of course it works correctly (or appears to) in FF 1.5. I wonder if it's
some new security feature of IE/Windows?

Andrew Poulos
Received on Mon May 1 05:19:42 2006