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Hi
This is - I guess - not directly linked to IMatch.
But maybe someone knows something.

I creates pdfs with Design & Prints.
Now I search a way to let open a pdf with a specific page.

I tried to do so with a attributes-field (also with hyperlink-type), but it works also with metadata-field.

The text - link
file://D:\timeline\test.pdf#page=7

works, it opens a pdf, but with page 1, not 7

The text - link
<a href="/D:\timeline\test.pdf#page=7">

works not, means I cannot click on it in a D&P-pdf, also not, if I put it in an attribute-hyperlink-field.

Does someone know, how I could create a text-link, what would open a pdf on a specific page
If it is easier, go to a page in the same pdf would also help.

1. Determine which program you use to open the PDF
2. Read the documentation of that program to see if it supports any command line parameters to open a specific page.

For Acrobat reader, a 5 second search in Google reveals this:

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf

Check it out. The page= parameter looks promising...

Thanks Mario!

I found out:

file://D:/timeline/test.pdf#page=7
opens the pdf, but not page 7 (works not)

http://www.xxx.ch/timeline/test.pdf#page=7
opens the pdf and goes to page 7 (works! :) )

This means again: I must first upload a pdf to the internet, and cannot use pdfs on my own computer.  :-\
I guess, this is again such a security-stuff - what is stupid, but seems to be necessary.

This is a totally different thing. You are trying to launch a PDF file in your web browser, not in Acrobat Reader!
There are many extra security mechanisms in place, and links to local files via file:// are always processed special, because they are more risky. And hash links don't work on them, and the #page=7 is interpreted by your web browser and may work, or not, in other browsers.

Quote from: Mario on March 25, 2019, 01:35:03 PM
This is a totally different thing. You are trying to launch a PDF file in your web browser, not in Acrobat Reader!
There are many extra security mechanisms in place, and links to local files via file:// are always processed special, because they are more risky. And hash links don't work on them, and the #page=7 is interpreted by your web browser and may work, or not, in other browsers.

Thanks for your answer.
Maybe this is my mistake.

Of course I would like to open the pdf with Acrobat Reader, not with a browser.
The idea is, I create a pdf with D&P and send it to someone.

This person opens the pdf, I think, this is done mostly with Acrobat Reader!?

Inside this pdf there would be some links, what would open a specific page in this pdf.
If it is easier to do this with a second pdf instead of one, then I could also create two pdfs.

As I understand it for now, this is not easy to do and sometimes it works, sometimes not.


I think, I have to google more than I have until now.
But a usually, your inputs are very helpful!

Creating links within a PDF requires a special syntax. See Adobe specs.
I don't know how this works, if you can produce such links with D&P and how your PDF exporter (whatever you use for "Print to PDF") does handle that.