Named Destination Just Don't Work

I have only used the page parameter and haven't used the open parameter for opening a PDF and have it go to a named destination. I checked the documentation "Parameters for Opening PDF Files" and the example given is this.

http://example.org/doc.pdf#Chapter6

It looks like form this example that the name of the destination goes right after the hash mark with out anything else.

I think I do understand what you mean: don't use 'nameddest=" but just the nameddest by itself.
I'll give it a try.

PDF Open Parameters:
The following table describes the parameters. Italics indicate user-specified variables.
Syntax
Description
nameddest='destination' (ie =416__1.51)
Specifies a named destination in the PDF document.
page='pagenum' (ie =3)
Specifies a numbered page in the document, using an integer value. The document’s first page has a pagenum value of 1.

There are more...pagenum works as well as viewrect
viewrect=left,top,wd,ht
Sets the view rectangle using float or integer values in a coordinate system where 0,0 represents the top left corner of the visible page, regardless of document rotation.
Use the page command before this command.

They all work except the namedest.....
problem with viewrect is that pdf-coordinates are internally from leftbottom to upperright, so those have to be recalculated. within the pdf named destinations work fine

Why Thank You StevenD!!! I was reading a bit too literal.... should have known....

Yeah I do the same thing now and then. Glad you got it working. It certainly has got me thinking about named destinations again. I haven't done much with using them.

well. the great thing about them is you can use it to couple data from a main db to a pdf, in the example it are roomnumbers, stored as well in an Oracle db and in Cad-drawings, of which I make pdf's. Every room, it can ofcourse be anything like switches, outlets, pumps, doors with locks, name it, which are registered in a db, you can show where they are by just providing the same 'key' to a pdf-reader.

to my disappointment, there's still a great problem: I need to flush the cache!! what happens: it opens great, but the next time with another key, it opens on the previous one...
Is there a way to do something about that?
I've tried first a #viewrect=0,0,0,0 and afterwards another #416 3.01, that works, but is akward,
there's got to be another way....
I've tried #page1&416 1.10, it takes about 2 seconds to work it out, this nameddest is NOT on that page, and then proceeds to execute the right view!! A real hickup. #page0 doesn't work. My quess is that the process with it's cache is still in memory, I can't think of a way to kill a process with Javascript...I'm opening the pdf with the IE-plugin, to change to another 'key' I have to hit the 'enter' twice on the new adress, the I don't need the page=1 option. That option only worked once...

You are going beyond my experience with opening a document from a web link. As I said earlier I have really only worked with the page parameter to open a PDF to a specific page. Maybe someone else out there who is following this thread will have more to say. What you have going sounds interesting.