Embedded pdf named destinations

when i link my embeded pdf to a named destination it does not focus on the destination. it just goes to the page of the destination
hers the code
            if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0){
                while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
                     $DEST = $row[deskID];
                    echo "<OBJECT CLASSID='clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11' WIDTH=700 HEIGHT=400>
                        <PARAM NAME='SRC' VALUE='BuildingPlan.pdf#nameddest=$DEST'>
                        <EMBED SRC='BuildingPlan.pdf#nameddest=$DEST' HEIGHT=450 WIDTH=600>
                            <NOEMBED> Your browser does not support embedded PDF files. </NOEMBED>
                        </EMBED>
                        </OBJECT>";
This is a really urgent problem if any one has any idea i would be very greatful

Functionally, it appears that processing the allowed PDF parameters after opening a PDF involves (1) open the PDF then (2) process the parameter or parameters.
Once the target PDF is "open" a second pass that attempts to process a parameter or parameters, on the now open PDF seem to not "take".
So, typically, after open-process parameter(s) happens the PDF has to be backed out of. Then the same PDF can be "opened" again followed by processing of the parameter(s).
If not already in hand, here's the reference document.
Parameters for Opening PDF Files
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters_v9.pdf
Be well...

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Functionally, it appears that processing the allowed PDF parameters after opening a PDF involves (1) open the PDF then (2) process the parameter or parameters.
Once the target PDF is "open" a second pass that attempts to process a parameter or parameters, on the now open PDF seem to not "take".
So, typically, after open-process parameter(s) happens the PDF has to be backed out of. Then the same PDF can be "opened" again followed by processing of the parameter(s).
If not already in hand, here's the reference document.
Parameters for Opening PDF Files
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters_v9.pdf
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Links to named destinations in IFRAME positioning the PDF a page and half past

I created a PDF file w/ named destinations so that I can allow the Internet user w/ browser and Acrobat Reader plug-in to link to specific sections of the PDF. The zoom is set to Fit Horizontally, and the position is the top of the page in my example PDF. I used Acrobat Pro 8.1 to create the PDF.
Problem is when trying to load the PDF into an IFRAME, displayed with the named destination using a tag like:
<a href="http://ekensqldev5/ePadmin/documents/Raw.pdf?rand=1000#view=FitH&nameddest=Mission" target="myframe" >Click 1 </a>
When clicking on the link to the named destination, the .pdf is loaded or reloaded into an IFRAME and the page with the named destination is usually correctly displayed. Only in IE 6,7,8 the pdf will frequently (about 1 out of 4 times) be positioned a page and a half past the named destination. Clicking to a different link, and then back to the original link will usually reposition the PDF correctly. Chrome and Firefox always position the PDF exactly to the named destination. I'd like to know how to create the named destination so that it will always be positioned correctly, or to use a different link that will always position correctly. I'm using Reader 9.1.2
HTML:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
</head>
<body>
<p>
<a href="http://ekensqldev5/ePadmin/documents/Raw.pdf?rand=1000#view=FitH&nameddest=Mission" target="myframe" >Click 1 </a> <p>
<a href="http://ekensqldev5/ePadmin/documents/Raw.pdf?rand=1100#view=FitH&nameddest=Highlights" target="myframe">Click 2 </a> <p>
<a href="http://ekensqldev5/ePadmin/documents/Raw.pdf?rand=1200#view=FitH&nameddest=Trustees" target="myframe">Click 3</a> <p>
<a href="http://ekensqldev5/ePadmin/documents/Raw.pdf?rand=1201#view=FitH&nameddest=Statement_of_Op erations" target="myframe">Click 4</a> <p>
<a href="http://intranet" target="myframe">Click 5</a> <p>
<iframe name="myframe" width="100%" height="800">
</iframe>
</body>
</html>

I'm working with Lyle on this, and I have done some additional testing.
What I found is that the positioning for named destinations seems to work ok with IE8 when the html page and pdf file are located on one of our external web servers (rather than local intranet servers).
I am wondering if this is due to the latency involved in downloading the file, allowing the DOM to register the plugin?
I've posted a query at Microsoft's forum, but they are pointing me back to Adobe...saying they cannot know how the plugin handles rendering...even though I responded that it seems to work across the board with Firefox and Chrome.
Here is my thread in the Microsoft forum.
Erratic Behavior with PDF named destinations
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/thread/4f6adaa2-de8f-47d6-b e4b-444edfdd26d7/

How to add named destination while exporting ms word to pdf that will support in adobe reader 10 and 11

Hi,
I need to add named destination in pdf when ms word is exporting to pdf that will support named destination in adobe reader 10 and 11.
I tried with options create bookmarks as word bookmarks but that also not supporting in adobe reader 10/11.
Please let me know how we can create bookmarks while exporting MS word to PDF.
And when we are opening pdf in IE with search parameter,its always opening PDF with 2 document on left serach panel.
Suneetika

Might be better to post this in the Acrobat or Indesign forums.

Bookmarks, named destinations and how to "robust" link to PDF from HTML?

I need a way to link to topics (from an HTML page) within a structured PDF file generated from InDesign, i.e. one that has an interactive bookmarks
panel, that doesn't break the links when the file is updated.
In particular, I don't want to refer to:
* page numbers because the document will repaginate when it is updated, breaking existing links
* named destinations that are numeric as addition/deletion of topics renumbers the named destinations, breaking the links.
Is there any option in InDesign that creates named destinations derived from bookmark titles as that would seem to solve my problem?

I did some more trials, and here is where I am at:
As page-break-after:always; was ignored by PDFGenerator, I used a hack: I wrapped my pages inside div's which have the height of the page, and this seems to work. In addition I had to edit my CSS, and remove the @media print wrapper around my print specific CSS parts, to get my print media specific formatting inside HTML to the PDF page.
I do not consider this a solution, but more of a hack - but it might work for what we are doing, and maybe it works for somebody else.
But what I am actually trying to do is the following:
We have a systems which creates reports in HTML which can be viewed in a browser, and printed from the browser, now we try to use PDFGenerator, to generate reports in PDF, with a minimal effort ( I know this is a the wrong way arround, HTML is not a language targeted at creating printable reports, but that's what we are doing now, and I think many other people are in the same boat)
Still if anybody has a better solution, please chime in, or tell me why the hack I did is a real bad idea - any feedback is welcome
Thomas

How to generate "named destinations" in PDF

When generating a PDF, how can I get "named destinations" in
my PDF so I can created hyptertext links to it?
1. question:
I produce several PDFs files, which have links to chapters in
the other PDF. To directly jump to such a chapter, one can use
named destinations in the PDF. How can I tell RoboHelp to produce
them?
2. question:
If there is an answer to q1, is that also possible in this
way: I need to generate a Word document first, because I need to do
some manual adjustments. Then I generate a PDF from this Word
document. Going this way, I finally also want to have named
destinations in the PDF. Is that possible?
Any help appreciated a lot, thank you.
Kind regrads
Joerg

Hi,
You can insert dynamic barcodes into your form using LC Designer.
You should do a search here as dynamic barcodes has been covered by by Steve Walker in detail. For example:
BARCODE 128 - possibility of binding 2 data fields to the barcode
Paperforms barcodes
Using Barcode in Acroforms
However one thing to bear in mind is that dynamic barcodes will not work in Reader unless the form has been Reader enabled using LC Reader Extensions ES2, which is a server product. Option 4 in this summary:
Good luck,
Niall
Assure Dynamics

Problem with linking PDF documents using named destinations

Linking from one PDF document to another PDF document using named destinations viewed in Reader works great but once the documents are viewed inside a browser environment the link will only open the go to document and will not go to the named destination.
If I make the links using the page number - yes they will work perfectly in the browser. But my problem is that the documents may change in the future and the links may be on differnt pages, so I need to use named destinations to bring me to the page of the PDF they are on.
Any suggestions? I need them to work in IE.
Thanks

You can link to a named destination with a URL. This might work better in
your case... To do it use the following format:
http://example.org/doc.pdf#nameddest=Chapter6

Named Destinations not Working in PDF

We have book files that contain several chapters and a glossary. We created numerous named destinations (specify named destination/jump to named destination) throughout the FM files. If we check the links in the FM files, they work fine (i.e. the linked word jumps to the correct spot). However once we PDF, it loses some (not all) of those links. Anyone have any suggestions for figuring out why or fixing the issue? To PDF, we print a PS file then distill it. We are using FM 10. There appears to be no rhyme or reason for which words work and which words don't. Any help is greatly appreciated!!

FM will always have at least two versions of the maker.ini on your system. The first version is in the default FM installation folder. The other is each of the Users areas. The one(s) in the Users area contain your specific settings to the FM environment. So it looks like your display settings are set properly in FM.
It really helps seeing the FM & PDF versions.
What specific version of the Palatino TTF font are you using (mine is the 5.00 as shown in the previous reply)?
In your FM paragraph designer, you seem to be using a Justified setting. What are your settings that you have in the Advanced properties of the paragraph designer for tthe Word Spacing options? I've tried duplicating your example (using a wid range of settings), but I don't seem to have any spill over issues:
In your example, it looks like only the word-spacings are messing up. The individual word lengths look to be correct when compared ot the FM file. Did you use any special spaces (i.e. non-breaking, numeric, etc.) between any of the words. (Turn on your View > Text Symbols in FM)? Are you using any special character tag, the default Emphasis tag or did you manually apply Italic (or footnote superscipt formatting) in the paragraphs that shoot over the margins?
What PDF joboptions did you use for creating the PDF?
Are you using the AdobePDF printer instance for creating the PDFs?
In Acrobat, have you checked to see if you actually have the Palatino Linotype being used in the PDF document? (Use either the File > Properties... and then look at the Font tab or use the Edit Object tool, click on the wonky text area and the right-click to get the Proprties context menu and look at the Text tab).

Impossible (?) to link to Named Destination/Bookmark in Local PDF from PDF?

Goal: Very simple... in a PDF, click on a link that (a) opens a second PDF on local drive, and (b) navigates to a named destination or bookmark in that second PDF... just like our normal everyday HTML links work, and even Word itself does this.
According to PDF Open Parameters, trial and error with Acrobat (X) itself, and all other articles I've found, this can only be done IF the second PDF is not local but accessed through an HTTP URL on a server elsewhere.
Yet I find this very hard to believe, and think I'm missing something obvious. Any suggestions?
Thanx.

Actually, it can be done, but it's not very intuitive.
When you create your link and the Action window appears, select "Go to a
page view". Now a floating window opens that lets you set the link. The
tricky bit is that you can now open a different file and set the link there.
If you want to set it to a named destination you need to open that panel and
double-click on that destination.
Linking to a bookmark is not possible, only with a custom-made script.

How to open PDFs at named destinations with MS-Word hyperlinks?

Hi forum,
In MS-Word you can create hyperlinks
to open local files, (protocol: file://...)
to open websites or (protocol: http://...)
to go to intern bookmarks or so.
Is it possible to open a local PDF this way at a defined point inside it? For example at a named destination or a bookmark...
In a word file I discuss some different PDFs and compare some issues in these PDFs. And so I want to hyperlink some views in the PDFs to illustrate the discussion.
thx 4 tips an tricks :-)
stefan.thaens

Yes, I think you're right. I tryed the same in the HTML-protocol and it works: example:
http://profiroll.fidom.de/pdf/01_Lastenheft_PPA_LH3_8.1_Elektrik.pdf#page=42
It would be nice to find a workaround to use this "addressing" in MS-Office!

FM10/Acrobat X 10-use named destinations for PDF linking

My company wants our documentation to be accessible from a web page. No problem there. But they want to provide users with links that open the PDF files to a specific section.
My books are in FM10. I created hypertext named destinations (example hyperlink syntax: newlink alarm) at the points where they want to open the PDF. I then saved the book to PDF, with the Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs check box selected.
We are now trying to build a link from the web page to open the PDF at the named destination. Here is some info from the web developer on his syntax:
These zoom but do not position you to the named destination:
     <a href="Documentation/IO.OS 2.1.3 Technical Overview.pdf#nameddest=alarm&zoom=40">Tech Doc</a>
     <a href="Documentation/IO.OS 2.1.3 Technical Overview.pdf#alarm&zoom=40">Tech Doc</a>
This positions to the indicated page and zooms:
     <a href="Documentation/IO.OS 2.1.3 Technical Overview.pdf#page=20&zoom=40">Tech Doc</a>
What are we doing wrong? I've been searching the forums and community help and we've tried all the syntax examples we can find. Thanks so much for any help you can provide!

Hi Kim,
Our team recently found a way to put custom named destinations in our FrameMaker files that can be used for linking to specific places in the PDF output (with no strange alphanumeric codes added to the named destinations).
The named destinations are anchored in FM so they stay with whatever heading/text/graphic/etc they are "attached" to, even as content is added to/removed from the FM files.
Will the following work as part of the solution you're looking for? (We're also using FM10 and Acrobat X.)
In FM, insert a new text frame object.
Type the following code in the text frame: [/Dest /Help123/Dest pdfmark
where “Help123” is the name that will appear in the PDF for this named destination. This is name you would use in your hyperlinks. Our programmers use this name for the context-sensitive help links in the user interface.
Right-click on the text frame and select Object Properties. Click to select the PostScript Code check box, then click the Set button.
NOTE: Once the PostScript Code check box is selected, the text in the text frame cannot be edited. To edit the text in the text frame, you have to first turn off the PostScript Code option, edit the text, and then turn the PostScript Code option back on.
Select the text frame object, then cut and paste to create a new instance of it. This places the text frame inside an anchored frame.
You can now “attach” the anchored frame to whatever heading/figure/text/etc the named destination should link to.
Here's the catch. To get the named destination in the PDF output, you can’t use the “Save as PDF” command in FM – you must print to PDF instead:
In the FM file, click File >> Print Setup.
Select Adobe PDF in the Name drop-down list, then click the Properties button.
Deselect the Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts check box, then click OK.
Click OK.
Click File >> Print.
Select the Generate Acrobat Data check box.
Click the PDF Setup button to define bookmark links, print quality, etc, then click the Set button when done.
Click the Print button.
The generated PDF file should contain all the bookmarks you’ve defined as well as all the named destinations you added (with the exact names you specified).
Hope that helps. Thanks, and good luck,
Jason

PDF goto named destination link with current zoom level

Hi,
I am created PDF file from 3b2 software with many links and bookmarks, The links with in documents are created with named destination bookmark names.
When I am click the link to navigate with in document it will goto the bookmarked location and zoom level will changed into “FIT TO WIDTH” but I am want to navigate over the document with current zoom level from the link where I am clicked.
For this process I am tried one method that is javascript action in link.
Using link properties
Action -> Add Action -> Select Action (Run Javascript)
Script
main()
function main()
var zoom = this.zoom;
this.gotonameddest(“bk1”);
this.zoom = zoom;
By this method I am get what I am looking but I am having one problem,
First I will goto that book marked page with and after only it will fit to the current zoom level, so when I am go for previous view it will goback to "FIT TO WIDTH" zoom level, so this method failed.
And also I am unable to edit all the links in my PDF document by Manually.
So please advice me what is right way to navigate over the document with current zoom level from link where I am clicked.
Note:
The output PDF document will contain 100 number of links so I want to update all the links with my requirement by automation.
Is there is any way to handle this process by Acrobat SDK with C# , .NET
Regard
Thirusanguraja V

Thank you Very much,
If you do't mind could you give me sample PS file with,
Destinations specify a particular location in a file, and a zoom factor.
The zoom level must be current zoom level of the page where i am link click.
Sample PS syntax i am tryed:
[/Dest /bmkaff1 /Rect [2000 3062 2100 2886] /View [/XYZ 0 0 0] /LNK pdfmark
Reference I am used for this:
pdfmark Reference
© 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
Adobe® Acrobat® SDK 8.0 pdfmark Reference for Microsoft® Windows®, Mac OS®, Linux®, and UNIX®
Edition 1.0, November 2006
Chapter 3 : 3 Actions and Destinations................44

Pdfmark code in MS Word 2008 doc doesn't seem to work properly to create Named Destination

Hi all,
I've been having trouble with creating Preview-compatible Named Destinations in Acrobat 9.x (see http://forums.adobe.com/thread/770470?tstart=0). Distiller, on the other hand, appears to create compatible Destinations, so as a last-ditch effort, I tried to go back to my original source file (Microsoft Word 2008 document) to use Distiller's pdfmark functionality, to see if maybe I could finally get a PDF with Preview-compatible Destinations.
Following instructions found elsewhere on this forum, I went into Word and inserted the following field into a test location in my document:
PRINT "[ /Dest /testdest /View [ /XYZ null null null ] /DEST pdfmark"
This field code is supposed to then cause a pdfmark to be inserted into the resulting PostScript and/or PDF files. Distiller is supposed to understand this and turn it into a Named Destination called "testdest." However, it doesn't seem to work - I don't see the pdfmark code in the PS file, and the PDF file doesn't have any Named Destinations in it.
I'm using Acrobat 9.x on Mac OS X 10.6.5, so I tried this two different ways:
1) Using the "Print to Adobe PDF" workflow (which replaced the "Adobe PDF Printer" from previous OS/Acrobat versions) - this automatically generates a PDF via (presumably) an API call to Distiller... and
2) Using the "Print to Postscript" workflow to generate a PS file, which I then ran through Adobe Distiller.
In neither case did I end up with a named destination in the PDF file, as I was supposed to. In case #2, even the Postscript file didn't have a pdfmark embedded in it. Thus, I'm assuming that perhaps this is particular issue may be a problem with MS Word 2008 rather than with Acrobat... but I'm hoping someone might have a clue as to how to fix it.
I welcome ideas on how to get Word 2008 to properly output pdfmark code, so that Distiller will pick it up and properly embed a Named Destination into the PDF...
Thanks in advance.
(If anyone has ideas about the Preview-compatible problem, linked above, that would also be great!)

You're suggesting that it was never fixed from Word 2004 to 2008? Possibly. I wonder if it's fixed in Word 2011? Anyone know? But is it really a Word problem, rather than a Distiller issue?
I appreciate your offer, though I do have access to Word on Windows (2003, I think), so I could try Distilling there... I only worry about formatting, since there are minor differences (e.g. font kerning, etc.) between Mac and Windows that are subtle, but sufficient to create formatting issues for very long documents (e.g. pushing figures onto the wrong pages, etc.). That would be a rather big problem.
The question remains whether this is an issue with Word or Distiller, though... and whether it's fixed in Distiller X and/or Word 2011.
Adobe, care to comment?
I'd really love to find a proper Mac solution, if one exists... it would be rather a slap to Mac users if a solution doesn't exist.

Using a script to call named destinations causes blank pages

My first post in the Adobe forums. I realize that this may not be exactly the right location for this question, but this forum seemed to be the closest to what I need.
We are trying to use the following script to call named destinations in an Acrobat X PDF file. Note that this script is just a sample for testing. The actual function would be embedded in the product GUI.
<style>
BODY
    COLOR: #003774;
    FONT-SIZE: 80%;
    FONT-FAMILY: arial, verdana, trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;
background: #ffffff;
</style>
<script>
function users()
document.open("/product/Documentation/SystemAdmin.pdf#NamedDestUsers", "PageHelp", "copyhistory=0,directories=0,location=0,menubar=0,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,status=0,toolb ar=0");
function trunks()
document.open("/product/Documentation/SystemAdmin.pdf#NamedDestTrunks", "PageHelp", "copyhistory=0,directories=0,location=0,menubar=0,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,status=0,toolb ar=0");
</script>
<p>
<a href=# onclick="users()"> Click to show user config pdf </a>
<p>
<a href=# onclick="trunks()"> Click to show trunk config pdf </a>
When we click the link to call the first destination, Users, for example, the file opens fine at the appropriate location. However, when we click a subsequent link, it tries to open in the same window and just freezes. All we see is a blank page. We realize that we could force it to open in new window each time, but since this is a fairly large file, we'd rather not do that. All these destinations are in the same file and we just want it to display a different destination in that file.
If you have any suggestions for either changes to the PDF or changes to the script, I would very much appreciate hearing about them. By the way, we're using the TimeSaver untility to standardize the named destinations.

This is not how you open a PDF at a specific named destination. You need to read this file:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf

IWeb • How Do I Make Links in an Embedded PDF Document Open in New Page?

On this page http://ostyn-newman.com/Gov_Downloads.html I have a PDF document that is embedded. I tried an IFrame, but everything seemed to work better for me with the "Embed" code. I am open to changing this if it would be better. Here's my problem. I can get the PDF document to display fine, but when I click on the links in the PDF document, the destination page opens in the embedded window. I want the links to open the destination in a new window.
I created the part of the document with most of the links (Pages 8.5 - 56) in Numbers and cut and pasted the table into a Pages document to create the completed document on our site. I exported the docuemnt from Pages as a PDF file which is what you see. There is also a link to download the file on the same page which works just fine.
I have tried to insert the target="_blank" code but have not been able to get it to open the destination pages in a new window. I am inserting the code by using the Insert/Widget/HTML Snippet Feature in IWeb. Here is the code I am using.
<embed src=
"http://ostyn-newman.com/Media/GS27F0026XTextfile.pdf"
style="width:850px; height:1000px;
border-width:0px;
border-color:#FFCC66;
border-style:solid;"
scrolling="auto" >
</embed>
I am not a coder and have just used Google to find the code to cut and paste and have played around with it to get to the place I am. If anybody can tweak the code I have or offer some totally new code for me to insert that will get this to work would be greatly appreciated.
Please keep in mind that most of the people who visit and use this page are government employees and are almost exclusivey using Explorer.

Thank you Jeff,
I tried your original suggestion and now my inserted html widget reads
<embed src=
"http://ostyn-newman.com/Media/GS27F0026XTextfile.pdf"
style="width:850px; height:1000px;
border-width:0px;
border-color:#FFCC66;
border-style:solid;"
scrolling="auto" target="_blank">
</embed>
It is live on my site. You can see that the embedded document still opens the destination links in the embedded window.
As for your other two suggestions, thank you as well. I am aware of those techniques and did not use them because that is not how I want the other PDF links on the page to behave. The catalog and autocad blocks downloads in the box at the top should simply download (or behave however the client's browser is configured to handle downloaded PDF documents or zip files.) I don't intend to force those to open a new window. I could also have our client click on a link to the PDF document and open it in a new page (like in your second suggestion) but I was hoping to embed the PDF and have it automatically viewable on our Download • Terms • Prices Page with all of the PDF search functions intact as well as the links be active. My only complaint at this point is that the links in the embedded PDF document open the destination page in the embed window instead of a new window. I only want to force a new window because the destination window doesn't behave properly when it opens in my embed window and it is difficult to figure out how to go back to the my PDF document when a destination window gets opened in the embed window. The code you sent didn't do the trick. Or maybe I didn't get it exactly right. That is why I included it above. Thanks for trying though. I appreciate the effort.
I would be willing to bypass the imbed/iFrame route altogether if I could just somehow drop the Pages document into the IWeb page and retain the search and link features, but I've not been able to figure out how to do that. When I was exploring how to directly drop a Pages document into an IWeb page is when I stumbled on the method of embedding a PDF document into an IWeb page to retain the important search and link features.

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