[Pro] Weird pdf behaviour

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Hi,

I have a lot of pdf’s for download on my next project. I wanted to add an index to each one where the user can click on the page number and go to the correct page in the pdf document. I set up the index in Preview using the link tool. When viewed in preview the links go to the correct page. However in the default window they open in all the links are one page number out. The same happens in windows explorer vrs viewing in Adobe pdf viewer.

http://nlgdesign.co.uk/speeches/enochpowellarchive.html

The only one uploaded is the single pdf on the 1950’s page.

Thanks in advance

nige.

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This is nothing to do with your problem but you must NOT use ’ apostrophes in your file names on the web.

You should stick to alphanumerics (a-z, A-Z, 1 - 0, and - hyphens and _underscores) in your file names. Avoid spaces too.

Servers/browsers can fall over if you use other characters and/or display strange behaviour.

David

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I don’t think you can anchor into a PDF from outside the PDF. It’s not HTML inside, and the syntax is entirely different.

Walter

On May 10, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Nigel Gilbert wrote:

Hi,

I have a lot of pdf’s for download on my next project. I wanted to add an index to each one where the user can click on the page number and go to the correct page in the pdf document. I set up the index in Preview using the link tool. When viewed in preview the links go to the correct page. However in the default window they open in all the links are one page number out. The same happens in windows explorer vrs viewing in Adobe pdf viewer.

http://nlgdesign.co.uk/speeches/enochpowellarchive.html

The only one uploaded is the single pdf on the 1950’s page.

Thanks in advance

nige.

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Hi,

Thanks all. The linking is completely within the pdf. If you open the pdf, look at the index on page 2. If you click on the the page number, that should take you to that page within the pdf. Depending on the viewer, this works or is a page out.

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For that much effort, I think that I would OCR the works for searchable and more easily readable content, leaving the PDFs as historical preservation of original forms.

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I set up the index in Preview using the link tool. When viewed in preview the links go to the correct page. However in the default window they open in all the links are one page number out.

Have you tried doing this using Acrobat itself using the pro version!

If not that might be a consideration and I am sure that one of us might be able to try it for you.

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Nige

See if this one works for you http://www.deltadesign.co/_pdfs/1950s.pdf

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Wow, Dave,

That works fine wherever I open it. How did you do that?

Thanks

nige

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I used Acrobat Pro to set the links.

By all means download my version and use it on your site.

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Hi Dave,

Thanks. Unfortunatly I didn’t see this particular behavour untill i’d finished doing all of the 80+ pdf’s I have. I may try downloading the demo from adobe and see I can just do save from it on all of them.

Ta

nige

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