Open PDF at specific bookmarks

I have a newsletter posted on our website as PDF. Want HTML email to go out to subscribers containing intro paragraphs of each article, click the appropriate link to the web page, and then Open PDF at the text in the article. I have everything bookmarked in the PDF article but can't find info on how to control location of opening of document based on a condition; only (under Document Properties) the ability to ALWAYS open to any page, magnification, open w/ bookmarks panel open, etc. If not built into Acrobat, is there either a way to:
pass a parameter to Acrobat to open to a specific page or bookmark?
run a script to control this function?
any another way to do this?
I am using Acrobat 6.0 but willing to buy 8.0 if it has this needed capability.
Thanks in advance,
Larry Aaron
Las Vegas, NV

Found the answer to my question! The article linked below explained PDF Open Parameters. I created a named destination in my pdf and then added #nameddest=name of destination to the end of my URL.
Thanks
Bernd Alheit - 8:57am May 8, 07 PST (#1 of 2)
Read this:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf

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