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Don't have an answer to your question but I would suppose that older versions of IE didn't change a "file://whatever.html" URL to a "c:\whatever.html" directory path. Unfortunately there is no way of having more than one version of Internet Explorer on a computer at the same time unless you want to do some pretty funky partitions and boot sectors so it is difficult to go back and check. I suspect it is a bug in IE (since this happened for me as well when I upgraded to 6), I should modify my earlier post as it doesn't seem to happen with an html page, only a pdf document. I made a test and if I hyperlink to, for instance c:\myfile.html#bookmark, and click on the hyperlink, the link will go to the correct page and the correct bookmark, and the address will show up as file://c:/myfile.html#bookmark. If I do the same thing with a PDF file it will not. If anyone else has a workaround I'd love to hear it but I couldn't figure anything out. Craig -----Original Message----- From: Ted Thompson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/15/03 7:17 AM Subject: RE: [PDF] Opening PDF Files to Specific Page from HTML (IE6 Problem?) The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ Thanks much for the reply, but why did it work in IE5? >From: "SAVEL, CRAIG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Ted Thompson " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [PDF] Opening PDF Files to Specific Page from HTML (IE6 >Problem?) >Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 05:18:06 -0500 > > >The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com >__________________________________________________________________ > >Alas that is a known IE issue. If a web page is not being served from an >actual server it will change the url automatically from something like this >file:///C:/bgpr/index.html >to this >C:\bgpr\index.html >i.e. changing a web address to a windows file and directory location. Once >that happens, bookmarks no longer work. >I learned this the hard way for a PDF CD-ROM project. I don't think there >is a workaround. > >Craig Savel >Population Council > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ted Thompson >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 11/14/03 7:07 PM >Subject: [PDF] Opening PDF Files to Specific Page from HTML (IE6 Problem?) > >I am developing a web-based document that will only be executed on a >local network (i.e. it will never be accessed over the internet). > > > >I am aware of the syntax with PDF used to open to a specific page [ >'file.pdf#page=6&view=fit' ]and this worked for me under IE 5 from a >java script. It also will work when the file is served from an http >server over the internet, but like I said, this will only be available >on a local network. > > > >Today when I installed IE6, this stopped working. Is there a >configuration setting somewhere that I can change to make this work >again? > > > >This is a very powerful way to provide access to our references on this >project. > > > >Any help would be much appreciated. > > > >Ted Thompson > > > > > >To change your subscription: >http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > _________________________________________________________________ >From Beethoven to the Rolling Stones, your favorite music is always playing on MSN Radio Plus. No ads, no talk. Trial month FREE! http://join.msn.com/?page=offers/premiumradio To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
