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How to open PDF at specific bookmark from HTML?

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From: Derek Harmon
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 07:20
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I'm not sure this is possible.  In HTML I can create an anchor with A NAME= "Bookmark" and then from another HTML document, reference the first with: 

A HREF="first.html#Bookmark" 

Now I'm working with specs that are PDF, and I can have an HTML index that links to these specs as PDFs, and the OS launches Acrobat Reader as the viewer fine: 

A HREF="first.pdf" 

But what I really want the HTML index of is to refer to specific sections of the PDF.  The PDF has plenty of book- marks.  So, if there are bookmarks in the PDF for: 

+ 2.0 Fruits \__ 2.1  Apples 

And I'd like to have an HTML hyperlink that will open up this PDF document and start the user reading at the heading of section 2.1, Apples ... 

Can I do something like this, 

A HREF="first.pdf#Apples" 

or perhaps, 

A HREF="first.pdf#Fruits#Apples" 

Alternatively, if this isn't possible per se, since this is on an intranet we're all Windows and I could do some IE scripting to launch Acrobat Reader with command-line arguments.  Are there command-line arguments that will open a document and place the user at a specific bookmark to start at? 

Thanks, 

Derek
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