[pdftex] reference to remote document

[Victor Ivrii]

On 5/19/05, Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:58:46AM -0400, Victor Ivrii wrote:
> 
> > On 5/18/05, Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > > >
> >
> > \url{http://www.myserver.com/mydoc.pdf#nameddest=Page=12}
> >
> > does not.
> 
> Despite the forbidden second "=" it works for me
> in the browser, mozilla, pdf browser plugin, both AR5 and AR7/Linux.
> Are you sure, that the target name is "Page=12"?
> Look into the pdf file, the /Names array should contain the
> string "(Page=12)".

nameddest=page=12 (or Page) does not work  for me in 
Safari, Adobe Acrobat and Reader Plug-in

(nothing works with a third party PDF Browser Plugin)

> 
> > However there seems to be a difference between
> >
> > *   \url{http://www.myserver.com/mydoc.pdf#nameddest=Page.12}
> > **  \url{http://www.myserver.com/mydoc.pdf#Page.12}
> >
> > *** \url{http://www.myserver.com/mydoc.pdf#Page=12}
> >
> >
> > The *** always works while *, ** only if document was produced with hyperref.
> > And if *, ** work they work in the different way from *** if applied
> > to book with
> > first few pages roman numbered: Page=3 leads to Page iii while Page.3
> > leads to Page 3, etc
> >
> >
> > *** refers to physical page while *, ** refer to the anchor which
> > hyperref puts on pages!
> 
> Again upper/lowercase issues:
> * in parameters, upper- and lowercase does not matter:
>   #PAGE=... #page=... #pAgE=... should be the same.
> * in values of nameddest, AR differentiates between upper- and
>   lowercase: #nameddest=page.12 and #nameddest=Page.12 are different.
> * hyperrefs writes lowercase page anchors: page.12

The same with me: page.4 works, Page.4 does not (since anchors are
case sensitive)

> 
> > and nameddest is not applied to page at all.
> 
> nameddest has nothing to do with pages. It refers to named
> anchors, hyperref sets a lot of them:
>   At the beginning: Doc-Start
>   \section --> section.1
>   equation --> equation.1
>   page anchor --> page.1
> 

I meant this 
> > =========================
> >
> > Deviating from TeX and pdf I began to wonder, which other formats
> > could contain anchors or pages which one can address?
> 
> HTML.

Well, I meant HTML but typed TeX :-) 
> 

So, I just tried to figure out if some media formats allow anchors

All the best              Victor
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Victor Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto