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Topic: Access 97 Jump to Named Destination in PDF
Conf: (P-PDF) Developers, Msg: 32112
From: george
Date: 1/1/2002 05:59 AM
> How do you create a name destination in a PDF file
There is a user interface in Acrobat 4 and 5 for creating named destinations manually. Some document authoring applications (e.g., Framemaker) create named destinations automatically. You can also use pdfmarks if you're using Distiller to create the PDF.
> have Access 97 load that PDF file and JUMP TO THE
> NAMED DESTINATION?
You have to use DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange), as described in the Acrobat SDK documentation, which is available somewhere at http://partners.adobe.com. In particular, you'll want to study the IAC (InterApplication Communications) reference. I'd suggest using the Windows API function 'ShellExecute' to launch the PDF, and then issue the appropriate DDE commands to go to a page number or named destination. You can do all of this with VBA code in Access.
George
