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Michael,

That's a terrific use case and implementation! Where is nameddest=inventory
defined?

Cheers!



On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Michael Levy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> One method is to use Mozilla PDF.js which works the same way on many
> browsers and supports links.
>
> https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/
>
> An example implementation:
> http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn76089
>
>
> http://digitalarchives.assets.ushmm.org/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=/pdf/1992.59_FA.pdf#nameddest=inventory
>
> -----Original Message-----
> [CODE4LIB] interconnecting with links in pdf files
> From: Sergio Letuche <[log in to unmask]>
> To:  <[log in to unmask]>
> Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 2:14 AM
>
> Hello community,
>
> could you please suggest me the best way to treat the following use case:
>
> We have a lot of pdf files, which have in them a lot of links
> (terms), referring to different pages in the same pdf, or to a page in
> another pdf file. Noticed that links do not behave well, when opened for
> example with the default google chrome's pdf reader. So my aproach is to
> force download the pdf. So the situation is getting mixed: One has a pdf
> stored locally, and all the links load again the pdf, to be read online...
>
> Do you have any ideas, best practice i could follow, so as to make this
> work in a better way?
>
> Best
>
> p.s. we are using drupal to serve the pdf files, but i guess this is
> irrelevant...
>



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