[Dave Kuhlman] | On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:00:29PM -0000, Tim Golden wrote: | > [Toon Pieton] | > | > | Is there anyway to open a .pdf at a certain page? Been | > | searching the internet, but couldnt find anything. | > | > Pretty certain there isn't. Even if you'd generated the | > PDF yourself and set an internal anchor there doesn't | > seem to be a URI which will jump to that point. I'd | > be really happy to be wrong about that. | > | | I'm assuming that the original poster was asking a Python question, | but just to show that in general this must be possible ... | | I use evince (on Linux) to read PDF docs. When I open a document | the second time, evince automatically shows the last page I was | viewing when I previously closed evince. And, the following | command: | | $ evince -p 12 somedocument.pdf | | will open that document to page 12.
Well I was certainly very narrow in my thinking, assuming that everyone was running Acrobat Reader and/or Firefox like myself. Clearly you're right that since PDFs *have* pages, any reader may offer a facility to jump to one. Thanks for the education! TJG ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
