Pdf open parameters
- 1. Adobe Acrobat 7.0 PDF Open Parameters July 11, 2005 Adobe Solutions Network — http://partners.adobe.com
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- 3. Preface Description This document describes PDF Open parameters for Acrobat 7.0, that allow you to open a PDF file using a URL or command that specifies both the file to be opened plus actions to be performed once the file is opened. Resources The following resources provide further information about how to use the PDF Open parameters described in this document. ● Acrobat and PDF Library API Reference. Provides a detailed description of the Acrobat and PDF Library APIs. ● Acrobat Online Collaboration: Setup and Administraton. Explains how to configure a collaboration store and networking issues related to Acrobat. ● PDF Reference, fifth edition, version 1.6 describes PDF version 1.6 in detail, including PDF object types, file format, and document structure. Conventions Used in This Book The Acrobat documentation uses text styles according to the following conventions. Font Used for Examples monospaced Paths and filenames C:templatesmytmpl.fm Code examples set off These are variable declarations: from plain text AVMenu commandMenu,helpMenu; monospaced bold Code items within plain The GetExtensionID method ... text Parameter names and The enumeration terminates if proc literal values in returns false. reference documents monospaced italic Pseudocode ACCB1 void ACCB2 ExeProc(void) { do something } Placeholders in code AFSimple_Calculate(cFunction, examples cFields) PDF Open Parameters 3
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- 5. Open Parameters for PDF Adobe defines parameters that allow you to open a PDF document with a command or URL that specifies exactly what to display (a named destination or specific page), and how to display it (using such characteristics as a specific view, scrollbars, bookmarks, annotations, or highlighting). The PDF Open parameters for URLs, described in the table below, are supported through the Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers, and can also be used when opening PDF documents programmatically: ● Many of these parameters can be passed to the following core API functions (see the Acrobat and PDF Library API Reference for details): AVDocOpenFromFileWithParamString AVDocOpenFromASFileWithParamString AVDocOpenFromPDDocWithParamString ● When opening a PDF document from a command shell, you can pass the parameters to the open command using the /A switch using the following syntax: <path to Acrobat> /A "<open parameter>=OpenActions" "<path to PDF file>" For example: Acrobat.exe /A "zoom=1000=OpenActions" "C:example.pdf" ● When opening a PDF document with an Apple Event on a Macintosh operating system, you can optionally pass the PDF Open parameters. PDF Open Parameters The following table lists and describes the available PDF open parameters. Italics indicate user-specified variables. Syntax Description nameddest=name Specifies a named destination in the PDF. page=pagenum Specifies a numbered page in the document, using an integer value. The document’s first page has a pagenum value of 1. comment=commentID Specifies a comment on a given page in the PDF. Use the page command before this command; for example: #page=1&comment=452fde0e-fd22-457c-84aa- 2cf5bed5a349 PDF Open Parameters 5
- 6. Open Parameters for PDF PDF Open Parameters Syntax Description collab=setting Sets the collaboration store to be used to supply and store comments for the document. This overrides the default comment server for the review or the default preference. setting is of the form store_type@location, where valid values for store_type are: ● DAVFDF (webDAV) ● FSFDF (Network store) ● DB (ADBC) For example: #collab=DAVFDF@http://review_server/Collab/user1 For more information, see Acrobat Online Collaboration: Administration and Setup. zoom=scale Sets the zoom and scroll factors, using float or integer zoom=scale,left,top values. For example, a scale value of 100 indicates a zoom value of 100%. Scroll values left and top are in a coordinate system where 0,0 represents the top left corner of the visible page, regardless of document rotation. view=Fit Set the view of the displayed page, using the keyword view=FitH values defined in the PDF language specification. See the view=FitH,top PDF Reference. view=FitV Scroll values left and top are floats or integers in a view=FitV,left coordinate system where 0,0 represents the top left corner view=FitB of the visible page, regardless of document rotation. view=FitBH Use the page command before this command. view=FitBH,top NOTE: Not supported on the command line. view=FitBV view=FitBV,left viewrect=left,top,wd,ht Sets the view rectangle using float or integer values in a coordinate system where 0,0 represents the top left corner of the visible page, regardless of document rotation. Use the page command before this command. NOTE: Not supported on the command line. pagemode=bookmarks Displays bookmarks or thumbnails. pagemode=thumbs pagemode=none (default) scrollbar=1|0 Turns scrollbars on or off. 6 PDF Open Parameters
- 7. Open Parameters for PDF Specifying PDF Open Parameters in a URL Syntax Description search=wordList Opens the Search UI and performs a search for the specified word list in the document. Matching words are highlighted in the document. The words must be enclosed in quotes and separated by spaces; for example: #search=”word1 word2” toolbar=1|0 Turns the toolbar on or off. statusbar=1|0 Turns the status bar on or off. messages=1|0 Turns the document message bar on or off. navpanes=1|0 Turns the navigation panes and tabs on or off. highlight=lt,rt,top,btm Highlights a specified rectangle on the displayed page. (Use the page command before this command.) The rectangle values are integers in a coordinate system where 0,0 represents the top left corner of the visible page, regardless of document rotation. help=index|contents|search Used only when opening a file from the command line or an Apple Event. Opens the document in the Help window, with the specified navigation panel selected. fdf=URL Specifies an FDF file to be used to populate form fields in the PDF file being opened. For example: #fdf=http://example.org/doc.fdf NOTE: The fdf parameter should be specifed last in the URL. Specifying PDF Open Parameters in a URL You can specify multiple PDF Open parameters in a single URL. Each parameter is separated from the others with either an ampersand (&) or a pound (#) character. Actions are processed and executed from left to right as they appear on the URL command line. Because all specified actions are executed, it is possible that later actions will override the effects of previous actions, so it is important to be aware of the order. For example, page actions should appear before zoom actions. Commands are not case sensitive (except for the value of a named destination). There can be no spaces in the URL line. PDF Open Parameters 7
- 8. Open Parameters for PDF Specifying PDF Open Parameters in a URL URL Examples http://example.org/doc.pdf#nameddest=Chapter6 http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=3 http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=3&zoom=200,250,100 http://example.org/doc.pdf#zoom=50 http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=72&view=fitH,100 http://example.org/doc.pdf#view=fitb&nameddest=Chapter3 http://example.org/doc.pdf#pagemode=none http://example.org/doc.pdf#pagemode=bookmarks&page=2 http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=3&pagemode=thumbs http://example.org/doc.pdf#collab=DAVFDF@http://review_server/Collab/use r1 http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=1&comment=452fde0e-fd22-457c-84aa- 2cf5bed5a349 http://example.org/doc.pdf#fdf=http://example.org/doc.fdf URL Limitations ● Only one digit following a decimal point is retained for float values. ● Individual parameters, together with their values (separated by & or #), can be no greater then 32 characters in length. ● You cannot use the reserved characters =, #, and &. There is no way to escape these special characters. ● If you turn bookmarks off using a URL parameter when a document had previously been saved with bookmarks on, the bookmark scrollbars are displayed at first, and only disappear once Acrobat obtains enough streamed information to render the full page. 8 PDF Open Parameters