From: Victor Mote (vic@portagepub.com)
Date: Wed May 05 2004 - 06:24:41 PDT
Nikolai Grigoriev wrote:
> Victor,
>
> > <fo:basic-link external-destination="url(file:aruser.pdf)">
> > <fo:inline color="blue">Accounts Receivable</fo:inline>
> > </fo:basic-link> ...
> > However, when I follow the link noted above, the document
> opens as if
> > "fit" or "fit-height" were the setting.
>
> You are right: for PDF links, we create a remote go-to action
> in PDF that addresses the first page, and specifies scale
> factor as /Fit.
> The reason is, in a remote go-to action we need to explicitly
> specify destination in the target file. And the destination
> specifier should either provide an explicit endpoint
> coordinate, or set the scale factor so that it fits the
> viewport by the respective dimension.
>
> To work around this limitation, I suggest adding a fragment
> identifier to the URL:
>
> <fo:basic-link external-destination="url(file:aruser.pdf#docstart)">
>
> where 'docstart' is an id of some element at the beginning of
> the tagret document. Your aruser.fo could begin like this:
>
> <fo:page-sequence ...
> <fo:flow ...
> <fo:block id="docstart"/>
That makes sense. I'll work on something along these lines.
> This makes Acrobat jump to the respective location using the
> scale factor specified by the named destination 'docstart'
> _inside aruser.pdf_; typically, it simply inherits scale
> factor from the context.
>
> If you provide a non-existing fragment ID, Acrobat will jump
> to the first page of the document (and don't even generate
> errors). However, I am not sure this is a clean solution; I
> believe adding a real @id to the beginning of the document is
> a cleaner approach.
I had already noticed that providing an empty fragment identifier caused the
desired behavior, and agree that it is not a very clean approach. After
digging around on this
issue a bit, I see that, at least based on the behavior of Acrobat 6, I may
have misunderstood the meaning of some of the document settings in a PDF
file. The "Open To" page number seems only to be used when the document is
explicitly & directly opened, not when it is opened (without a fragment
identifier) by following a link from another document. I wouldn't be
surprised to find out that this is a bug in Acrobat 6, but in any case, it
does look like the safest thing to do is add an explicit fragment
identifier.
> > The desired behavior is for aruser.pdf to open with the "fit-width"
> > initial zoom.
>
> Thank you for providing the use case. Right now, it is not
> evident for me how it can be done without parsing the target
> PDF file; we are going to look into it in more details.
>
> > When I try to use the Acrobat "link" tool to see the
> properties of the
> > link, I get the following message: "There was a problem
> reading this
> > document (18)."
>
> I would be grateful if you could send me your PDF file
> off-list to support@renderx.com to examine. In general, I
> have an impression that remote go-to actions are poorly
> supported in Acrobat: it executes them well but creates a
> terrible mess trying to edit them (at least Acrobat 5; did't
> try with 6).
I have sent (off-list) both the PDF file in question and the same document
created with another application for reference. I definitely don't think you
should have to parse the target PDF file for this use-case. After you
resolve the issue causing the errors in the links, I think (based on the
behavior of the reference file) that the behavior will be "correct",
althought that may be by accident.
Thanks again.
Victor Mote
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