LaTeX hyperref package: Opening a target PDF at a specific page

Question

Does anyone know if it is possible to employ the LaTeX hyperref package to open a target PDf at a specific page? I have tried using the \href{FILENAME#page=XX}{LINK_TEXT} command, where XX is the target page number, but no dice. The file iteself opens, but it always starts out at the first page. The idea being that I have a large index which is a separate document; each item in the index has a link to the target document along with the page number.

Perhaps I am using the wrong linking macro?

Any ideas?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '10 at 04:00

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If all the documents are created using pdfLatex, you should be able to do what you want by:

\href{filename#page.xx}{link text}

Note the . instead of = after page.

answered Mar 04 '10 at 04:00

Alok Singhal

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That works wonders. Is this documented anywhere in the hyperref package? – panagioti Mar 04 '10 at 17:27
Doesn't work for me :-/ According to the manual, `\href[page:xx]{filename}{link text}` should work, but it doesn't either. – Adam Spiers Jan 12 '14 at 00:43
How does it work when then document is not created using pdfLatex? – DJJ May 26 '14 at 08:29

LaTeX hyperref package: Opening a target PDF at a specific page

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