link question

[flnMichael]

Hey,
I'm trying to figure out if there is ANY way to make someone looking at a PDF file on the web have to click on a link that is located on that page. These PDF files have numerous pages and some have links. My boss wants to know if when they get to that page and it has a link, they can't go any further until they click on that link?
From the best of my understanding of PDF, isn't a multple page PDF file just treated like one big page anyway? If that's the case, then I guess this question has already been answered for me...if not, can someone shed some light on this for me?

Thanks
Mike

 

[tgreer]

No, a multi-page PDF is NOT treated as "one big page". Each page is a distinct object in the PDF format. Also, PDFs are byte-served, so that pages may be displayed before the entire PDF is loaded.

Your solution would be to create multiple single-page PDFs. The user would navigate from one PDF to the next by clicking the link.



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