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Topic: Linking to Destinations Works Intermittently
Conf: (P-PDF) What's Wrong with my PDF?, Msg: 139366
From: cartwrightdale
Date: 9/14/2005 12:27 AM

I've built a large html file in which Table of Contents etnries each link to a different section of a .pdf document, using the named destinations convention:

"../pdfs/v1c1.pdf#nameddest=1.1"
"../pdfs/v1c1.pdf#nameddest=1.2"
...etc

The problem is, they don't always work. They USUALLY work, about, say, 75% of the time you click one. But 25% of the time, the link goes to the first page of the document instead. If you go back and try the same link again, it might work -- just as links that worked the first time might not work the next time. There seems to be no pattern to whether a link works or doesn't.

The problem occurs with Acrobat 7.0 and Internet Explorer. The problem NEVER occurs with Firefox, but a requirement of this product is that it functions in IE.

Has anyone had this problem, or figured out a workaround? I've tried everything I can think of, including trying to link to little mini html files which refresh to the destinations instead, but haven't had any luck.

(Note: The reason I'm linking from an html page to pdf pages, instead of a table of contents pdf to pdf pages, is because I was trying to get around ANOTHER bug in Acrobat/IE in which the linked .pdf loses its "continuous" setting and jumps to "single" view, when in a browser window. So if the html->pdf problem isn't fixable, does anyone have any thoughts on fixing the pdf->pdf problem that led me to the html solution in the first place?)

Please help!

Thanks,

Dale Cartwright

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