Acrobat doesn't write that value anywhere. Evermap's plugin may do so, but Acrobat itself doesn't.
As for why it works in some but not others - I'd need to see the actual PDFs in question to be able to comment. I can say that we don't do any range checking on that value (beyond making sure it's a valid number). Leonard On 3/8/13 10:11 AM, "Paul Breslaw" <p...@breslaw.co.uk> wrote: > >On 07/03/13 20:06, Paulo Soares wrote: >> Here the author of the mystic 10000. > >Wonderful! Hello Paulo - thank you for writing - and for being one of >the authors of such a marvelously useful library. > >> This value is the page height to >> position the view at the top. As the destination page size is generally >>not >> known the 10000 was an arbitrary big enough value greater then the >> destination page. > >Okay - so the value you chose was arbitrarily large, but otherwise has >no significance. > >> Why -32768 would work better is a mystery to me. > >That's interesting. I wonder if anyone from Adobe is reading this, >because they might be able to comment on it? > >To recap from my earlier posting:- > >If I generate a link to page 1 of an external PDF using iText, then in >the Adobe reader, with a very few target files, I end up on the wrong >page. > >With other readers I end up on the right page. > >I do not know what significant charateristics the offending target files >have. > >If I export the links using the Evermap AutoBookmark plug-in for Adobe, >delete all the links, and re-import them (using the same plug-in), then >the problem disappears. > >Since the only difference between 'before' and 'after' is 10000 vs >-32768, and this was (presumably) produced by the Adobe software, I >guess Adobe have a reason for using -32768. > > >What conditions would have to be met for iText to change the constant to >-32768? > > >Regards > >Paul. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester >Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the >endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to >tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. >http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev >_______________________________________________ >iText-questions mailing list >iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > >iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. >Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a >reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ >Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: >http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
