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This isn’t restricted to ‘page’: there’s a whole set of PDF fragment identifiers [0,1]. Most notably ‘zoom’, ‘view’ and named destinations, but there are others

by bradrn 2y ago

This isn’t restricted to ‘page’: there’s a whole set of PDF fragment identifiers [0,1]. Most notably ‘zoom’, ‘view’ and named destinations, but there are others. [0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8118.html#section-3 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8118.html#section-3 [1] https://pdfa.org/pdf-fragment-identifiers/ https://pdfa.org/pdf-fragment-identifiers/

pimlottc 2y ago
Interesting! And it seems like they are fairly well-supported among major browsers, with the exception of Safari [0]. Writing links by hand is rather cumbersome, though, they ought to be better exposed in PDF viewers. It certainly doesn't help adoption when the list of allowed parameter values is locked in a proprietary spec! view=<keyword>,<position> The arguments correspond to those found in [ISOPDF2] 12.3.2.2 "Explicit destinations". <keyword> is one of the keywords defined in [ISOPDF2] "Table 149: Destination syntax" with appropriate position values. [ISOPDF2] ISO, "Document management -- Portable document format -- Part 2: PDF 2.0", ISO 32000-2:2017, 2017. 0: https://pdfa.org/pdf-fragment-identifiers/#Browser_support_for_basic_PDF_navigation_features https://pdfa.org/pdf-fragment-identifiers/#Browser_support_f...
- ikari_pl 2y ago
  > a proprietary spec PDF is open since 1993, if that's the spec you mean
  - pimlottc 2y ago
    Is there a freely available copy of the document referenced earlier? I couldn’t find one with some brief googling.
    - poizan42 2y ago
      Straight from Adobe's website: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/assets/5b15559b96303194340b99820d3a70fa/PDF_ISO_32000-2.pdf https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/assets/5b... EDIT: If it's important that it's the actual standardized version rather than the final draft then you can get it for free here: https://www.pdfa-inc.org/product/iso-32000-2-pdf-2-0-bundle-sponsored-access/ https://www.pdfa-inc.org/product/iso-32000-2-pdf-2-0-bundle-... (Strictly speaking it's the 2020 revision which incorporates some errata. I don't know if the final standardized 2017 version was made freely available)

by bradrn 2y ago

pimlottc 2y ago

Interesting! And it seems like they are fairly well-supported among major browsers, with the exception of Safari [0]. Writing links by hand is rather cumbersome, though, they ought to be better exposed in PDF viewers. It certainly doesn't help adoption when the list of allowed parameter values is locked in a proprietary spec! view=<keyword>,<position> The arguments correspond to those found in [ISOPDF2] 12.3.2.2 "Explicit destinations". <keyword> is one of the keywords defined in [ISOPDF2] "Table 149: Destination syntax" with appropriate position values. [ISOPDF2] ISO, "Document management -- Portable document format -- Part 2: PDF 2.0", ISO 32000-2:2017, 2017. 0: https://pdfa.org/pdf-fragment-identifiers/#Browser_support_for_basic_PDF_navigation_features https://pdfa.org/pdf-fragment-identifiers/#Browser_support_f...

ikari_pl 2y ago
> a proprietary spec PDF is open since 1993, if that's the spec you mean
- pimlottc 2y ago
  Is there a freely available copy of the document referenced earlier? I couldn’t find one with some brief googling.
  - poizan42 2y ago
    Straight from Adobe's website: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/assets/5b15559b96303194340b99820d3a70fa/PDF_ISO_32000-2.pdf https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/assets/5b... EDIT: If it's important that it's the actual standardized version rather than the final draft then you can get it for free here: https://www.pdfa-inc.org/product/iso-32000-2-pdf-2-0-bundle-sponsored-access/ https://www.pdfa-inc.org/product/iso-32000-2-pdf-2-0-bundle-... (Strictly speaking it's the 2020 revision which incorporates some errata. I don't know if the final standardized 2017 version was made freely available)