[pdftex] reference to remote document

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 07:20:46PM -0400, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On 5/14/05, Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 04:45:20PM -0400, Victor Ivrii wrote:
> > 
> > > Sorry for asking what I could guess by myself: just put after # not an anchor
> > > name but the expressionPage=12:
> > >
> > > http://www.myserver.com/mydoc.pdf#Page=12
> > 
> > Surprised. It seems to be a feature of the browser plugin.
> > Also lowercase works here: ...mydoc.pdf#page=12
> > But it isn't working in AR7/Linux or xpdf3. ("Page=12" can
> > also be a legal anchor name.)
> 
> May be it is plugin feature (AR7 plugin for Safari, MacOSX 10.4)
> 
> My experiment shows that Page=12 takes priority over an anchor:
> even if I have an anchor with a name Page=12 
> 
> http://www.myserver.com/mydoc.pdf#Page=12
> 
> leads to page 12, not where anchor is, and even if page 120 does not
> exist in the document, and an anchor Page=120 exists, still
> 
> http://www.myserver.com/mydoc.pdf#Page=120 leads to the last page of
> the document
> but not to the anchor

By accident, I found the specification: RFC3778:
  http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3778.txt
It summarizes "Adobe Technical Note 5428"
(the link in the rfc is out of date):
  http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf

For anchors, the parameter "nameddest" is used:

\url{http://www.myserver.com/mydoc.pdf#nameddest=Page=120}

(However A.T.N. 5428 forbids the use of "=").

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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