03-19-2011, 10:35 AM

We have our college catalog with named destinations on our website. I can open to any named destination on Windows machines using various browsers. I cannot open the file to a named destination using Mac (MacBook Pro or desktop) using Safari, Chrome, or Firefox.

The file opens simply to the first page of the document. It appears you can enter random strings of characters as a named destination and not receive a document error. It is as though the destination argument is ignored.

I cannot find this topic anywhere on the internet.

Anyone ever experienced this - any way to fix this?

Thanks.

03-19-2011, 08:23 PM

By named destination, I guess you mean index links?
Do you have Adobe Reader installed?
That's probably a feature of Adobe Reader and not Mac's built-in viewer.

03-19-2011, 11:33 PM

gshali,

The term used in Adobe is named destination, but it is a just like named anchor on a web page, so yeah that's an index link:

http://www.yoursite.edu/adobe.pdf#nameddestination

This works fine in windows browsers, but not in the mac browsers. You don't have to do anything special to your browser or adobe reader to scroll to the point in the document addressed by the named destination.

No idea why this doesn't work on Macs.

03-20-2011, 12:22 AM

Do you have an example that you could share with us?

03-20-2011, 11:19 AM

Well, I can but it turns out that I had to upgrade Adobe from 9 to X to have Safari behave as I intended. Similarly, when I upgraded, Firefox worked as well from Mac. Chrome works on Windows with a specific Adobe plugin but not with its PDF viewer plugin - it goes to the front page. On Mac, Chrome does not offer an Adobe plugin.

Here's an example http://www.ycp.edu/download/G9920_Yo....pdf#BusMinors which should open to our Business department minors.

Since there is such "update" dependence for destinations to work, I will have to find a way to put these up in html.

Thanks anyway.