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Came across this very useful tip the other day for creating a link on a web page or email to a specific page or article within a pdf file.

The format for linking to a page is very similar to the standard anchor mechanism used for web page links.

Example

http://www.mydomain.com/document.pdf#page=1

To link to a specific article on a pdf page requires a two step approach.
Firstly you need to set up a destination tag within the pdf file:-

1. Manually navigate through the PDF for the desired location, and magnification
2. Go to View > Navigation Panels > Destinations
3. Add a New Destination and give it a name
4. Save the document

The second step is create your link, the format for which is:-

http://www.mydomain.com/document.pdf#nameddest=MYARTICLE

Beware of your pdf ‘initial view’ properties though which may interfere with how the article opens. It is best to set the layout and magnification to ‘default’ (File -> Properties -> Initial View).