Link directly to a specific PDF page

Sometimes you want to link directly to a given PDF page. For instance, you want to point to a figure that appears on a given page, or to a slide in a PDF presentation.

It seems that Adobe makes it possible to link to PDF pages, as shown in their help document.

If you have a URL link to a PDF, say http://example.com/file.pdf, you can link directly to a page by adding a #page=n fragement, were n is the page you want to link to. For instance, if you’re interested in page 17 of the Enterprise Objects Framework (start of Part I), we can link to https://tinuryl.com/EOFDevGuide#page=17¹.

And this also works for file URLs, i.e., file:///Users/username/file.pdf#page=23 will open a web browser —if it can render PDFs— on page 23 of file.pdf.

Linking to a named anchor

Adobe Acrobat allows authors to include named Destinations in the file. If you have a destination named Glossary, for instance, you can use the fragment to point to it, as in http://example.com/file.pdf#Glossary. Unfortunately, bookmarks created from the Table of Contents hierarchy don’t seem to work. That is, https://tinyurl.com/EOFDevGuide#Index does not work, even when there is a bookmark —but not a named destination— with the name Index.