In Acrobat 9 Pro, you can easily add a link to a PDF document that will open another PDF document in a new window. Is there a way to have the new document open to a specific page?
I've found several topics on how to use open parameters (for example, filename.pdf#page=2) to create a hyperlink to a specific page in a PDF document, but these all seem to deal with hyperlinking from an HTML file. When I add a link to a PDF document in Acrobat, it does not give me the option to add this parameter to the end of the file name.
I had some success entering a custom link using the file location as a URL. This causes Acrobat to open the second PDF in a web browser and prompt for security risks, however, which is not the behavior I want.
It seems like there should be a way to do this without scripting, or at least a way to manually edit the hyperlink so that the parameter can be added to the local PDF file location without causing Acrobat to think it is opening an outside web site.
If it's in the same directory structure as the original document you can use an ordinary "Go To Page View" action. Open both files, add the "Go To Page View" action to your link, When the set link box pops up, navigate to the destination page in the other document and click ok.
If the document is on the web you'll have to use the Open Parameters.
Thom Parker
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