Now coming full circle, I’m actually going to produce a link in this document, and I’ll put away the Destinations Panel because we’re done with it. I want to create a link in this document that points to, not just a URL, it will, but I want to add something to that URL. What I’m going to do is actually point to a PDF file that I have hosted on a web server somewhere. Not only do I just want to point to that PDF file, but I want to point to either a specific page or to a specific name destination in that PDF file. Let me show you how to do this.
I’m going to take the link tool, and in this case, I’ll just add it to this logo. I’ll leave it as an invisible rectangle and I’m going to choose “Open a Web Page”. I’ll click Next and here is where I’m going to set this up. I’ll go ahead and type in my URL, www.timplummer.com, PDF name dot PDF. And I’m just using the title PDF name to represent whatever the actual name of the PDF that you’re trying to point to might be. Now here’s where I tell think what part of the PDF to point to. Number sign, page equals two. That syntax will take me to page two. If I wanted to go to page four then I would just change two to four, or whatever page in the document that I want to go to. So that’s how I can point a URL to a PDF file and got to a specific page within that PDF file. And if you are a web developer, or you know one, it’s important to realize that this URL structure is something that you can use even in HTML, as a way to point to a particular PDF file and a particular page within the PDF file.
Let’s handle Names Destination as well. I’ll delete everything expect for the pound sign, in this case instead of page equals a page number, I’ve used the term named dest equals name, and in this case, name represents the name of the destination within the PDF file that I’m pointing to. So obviously you have to know that, but if you create the PDF file that you’re pointing people to, you can use the information from the Name Destinations Panel in this URL, and you can point to a PDF file not only by page, but by destination. It’s a very powerful way to take people to specific information that you might want to point them to, even if you’re hosting it on the web. And again, if you’re a web developer, or you know one who wants to be able to do so, that syntax is what you would use to point somebody to a name destination within a PDF file, and you can use this same structure in HTML, or in any other way that you might create a URL, and then use it.
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