[scribus] How to open a specific page from a PDF?

Jeffrey Silverman jeffrey.d.silverman at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 16:04:46 CEST 2008


I have a feeling he means something like, put a link in a web page
that points to a page in the PDF.

I don't think there is any (portable, reliable) way to do that though.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> Juan A. Bertolin wrote:
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> Juan,
> Please send your emails as plain text. I'm pasting your note here:
> <Juan's note>
> I'm using Scribus in Ubuntu Hardy to design a digital magazine. Once
> the PDF is generated, could it be possible to establish a link to a
> specific page from outside? I mean, is it possible to include a mark in
> a page that afterwards I could use it to access that page directly by
> means an external link?
> </Juan's note>
>
> One question is, linking from what?
> If you're linking from a PDF, the answer is certainly yes. If you look at
> the features of PDF links in Scribus, you will see that you can link to
> another file, and in addition to a specific page. You can also link within a
> PDF to another page in the PDF.
>
> 1. Create a *regular* text frame
> 2. right-click for Context Menu, select PDF Options > Is PDF Annotation.
> 3. right-click again, PDF Options > Annotation Properties; this brings up a
> dialog
> 4. Choose Link (same document), External Link (different PDF), or External
> Web-Link (will be dependent on whether this is enabled in your OS/browser)
> 5. Under Link you specify a page and can also specify particular X and Y
> coordinates on the page. External link asks for the document, then for page
> and coordinates. Web-link asks for URL.
>
> Note that you cannot test these in Scribus, you have to make the PDF and
> check with your PDF viewer.
>
> Greg
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