This isn’t restricted to ‘page’: there’s a whole set of PDF fragment identifiers...

pimlottc · 2024-07-12T13:24:01 1720790641

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_f...

ikari_pl · 2024-07-12T15:11:56 1720797116

> a proprietary spec

PDF is open since 1993, if that's the spec you mean

pimlottc · 2024-07-12T17:05:40 1720803940

Is there a freely available copy of the document referenced earlier? I couldn’t find one with some brief googling.

poizan42 · 2024-07-12T20:08:48 1720814928

Straight from Adobe's website: 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-...

(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)