PDF Open Parameter Only Works Once

Hi cstokley,

Acrobat/Reader seems to be storing the last view setting and overriding your Open Parameter. This is a feature, not a bug. When you hit the Back button in the Browser, you are taken back to your web page with the link, right? So, the last view you had of the PDF is page 108, not 112.
There is a Preference named "Restore last View Settings When Opening Documents." Check under your Preferences and see if this is checked. If it is checked, try unchecking it and see if you get the same results- let us know.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
www.pdfscripting.com

Thank you.

No, it's unchecked (both in Reader and Acrobat). Alas.

Katja

Hi cstokley,

Bummer that wasn't the source of the problem. Maybe you have discovered a bug :(

Can you provide a link to the page so I (or others here) can check it out?

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
www.pdfscripting.com

Unfortunately I can't (proprietary information on my corporate intranet), but I will set up a test site and will be grateful if you and/or others will look at it.

Here's a test site that demonstrates the behaviour: http://dev.brokenclay.org/pdflinks/

Thanks again.

Hi cstokley,

Thanks for the test file. I followed your steps and am seeing the same behavior you report. I think what is happening is that even though you hit the back button in the Browser, Acrobat remains open in the background and probably the file too. When I hit the back button and then made sure Acrobat was closed before hitting the link again ( using the Task Manager) then the file opens to the correct page the link is set to. You can do this yourself and see in the Task Manager that Acrobat remains open even after you navigate away from the file, so as far as Acrobat is concerned it is the same session and it just brings up an already open file to whatever location it was on at last view, overriding the link instruction. Acrobat will close after a short while automatically, so I think if you try this again but give it a couple minutes before hitting the link a second time it should go to the page set in the link. Whether or not this is a bug I can't say, but it sure is not acting the way you want it to.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions, Inc
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com

I'm not seeing the same thing you are.

On the computer that has Acrobat installed, I've got an acrotray.exe process running. When I go to the PDF document (in the browser), I don't see any other Acrobat processes start, nor do I see any process exit when I use Back to return to the web page.

On a computer that doesn't have Acrobat installed, no Adobe processes are running at all, unless I explicitly start Reader.