Reply to: RE>Re[2]: Hyperlink revisions

On 8-23-95 Mark Donohoe at Adobe provided the clue (for which I am grateful)
to linking from one PDF file to any page in any other PDF file. He wrote:

Many people use the link dialog box to set up cross-doc
links incorrectly. Here is the correct way to set up
a cross-document link so that when the link is followed,
it opens up the target document AT SOME PAGE OTHER THAN
ONE:

In Exchange:
1. Open the target document to the page you want the link
to go to.
2. Open the document you want to put the link into. At this
point, the source doc is the active one, the target doc is
inactive.
3. Select the link tool by clicking on the link icon on the
toolbar or selecting Tools | Link from the menu bar. (If
you hold down the Option/Control key, the link tool will
persist after you create the link.)
4. Drag out the link rectangle with the link tool.
5. Leave the Action Type Go To View. DO NOT change it to
Open File. If you do, you'll always go to the first page
of the target file.
6. Click in the target file's window, thereby telling Exchange
what view you want the link to go to.
7. Click the Set Link button in the Create Link dialog box.
8. Save the changes to the source file and you're done.

Of course, you can manually open the file and go to the
desired page once the Create Link dialog box is displayed.
My method above is just one way to get there.

There is no limitation in Exchange on being able to link
only to one page in another PDF file.

(I have forwarded this and other pertinent "unknown"
information on to the Adobe Tech Support folks.)

Mark

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Date: 8/29/95 1:12 PM
To: Dedrick Howard
From: acrobat@blueworld.com
> Your posting was very insightful--I was not aware that you
> could create a hyperlink from anywhere in one PDF to
> anywhere in another. I thought you could only go to the
> first page of another. That is quite helpful to know.

The only way I know to jump to another page of another PDF is using PDFMark
commands, which would require re-distilling the original file after inserting
the desired commands into the PostScript code. Please share if you know of a
way
to set this up using Exchange's interface.

-- Kelly