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I am using Adobe Reader 8.1.2 for Windows. I am trying to open a PDF file to a specific page on our web site, but I can not seem to get it working. I used the instructions from the Adobe site at http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=317300 , but it still just opens to page 1.
We put an HTML link to a PDF file added #page=[page number] to the end of the link's URL.
For example, this HTML tag opens page 4 of a PDF file named myfile.pdf:
We have tried all the troubleshooting tips on the Adobe link above but nothing works. Are there settings we need to set in our Adobe Reader or something?
If not already "in hand", obtain Adobe's document:
Parameters for Opening PDF Files (Acrobat Version 8.1)
[url]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf[/url]
Look closely at the link syntax.
No spaces - no "unsafe characters" - check character case (important if your web space is in UNIX or Linux).
Acrobat relies on the original HTTP spec for a URL.
See the following specification document http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.php,
which specifies Uniform Resource Locater (URL) syntax and semantics of formalized
information for location and access of resources via the Internet.
Some characters are unsafe because gateways and other transport agents are
known to sometimes modify such characters.
These characters are {, }, \, |, ^, ~, [, ], and `.
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