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Documents are available on our department's web site for viewing as .pdf files. Many have large appended maps that are stored in separate .pdf files linked by bookmarks to the main document.

The bookmarks are variably expanded or collapsed, depending on how the company that scanned the documents saved them (which had to do with the complexity or size of the document). In some cases several levels of bookmarks may have to be opened to access an externally-linked map.

When such a map is opened, it is opened in the same window as the main document. When the "back" button is hit on the browser to return to the main document, the bookmarks in the main document are reset (e.g. collapsed) to whatever they were when the document was first opened. This means the user may then have to re-expand several levels of bookmarks to click on a subsequent map.

To avoid this problem we would like to have external .pdf files open in a new browser pop-up window. That way a user could have the main document and several maps open at once. I unticked the "Open cross-document links in same window" box under general preferences within Adobe Reader 7 but this did not help the situation. I have tried this with Netscape 8 (has tabbed browsing) and IE 6.

Viewing the document in Adobe outside the browser does not work because the links to the external .pdf map files don't work.

If anyone knows how to get this to work please let me know. Otherwise, is there any way to make the browser "remember" the last way a user has positioned the bookmarks rather than resetting them to the default.

Thanks