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How to search a PDF in Acrobat Reader AND jump to a certain page via parameter?

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Sorry might not be an answer, but a workaround could be to covert the PDF to html and use Lucene highlighter (similar to what Google does)

Mikos 2010-05-09 10:35:07

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You'd have to write a snippet of Javascript to get the behavior you are looking for.

Dwight Kelly 2010-05-24 19:02:13

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+1 A:

acrobat uses a plugin to hilite terms, and requires a fdf stream to indicate the words to hilite. See here for pointers:

support.dtsearch.com/dts0152.htm

update:

assuming you know the page# and word# on the page to hilight, here is one way to do it:

On web page:

<iframe id="acroframe" src="pdfpage/example.pdf#xml=http://example.com/hilite.aspx?hilite=8e3302ee-ff88-41ee-bdfb-9e8df87cc3ad&amp;toolbar=1&amp;navpanes=0&amp;statusbar=0&amp;view=FitH"&gt;
</iframe>

The PDF will appear in the frame, it will show the toolbar, hide the navpane & status bars and fit page to horizontal. Then it will query the web site to get the xfdf data for hilighting: http://example.com/hilite.aspx?hilite=8e3302ee-ff88-41ee-bdfb-9e8df87cc3ad

Here I used a guid key that I previously saved in the session with the hilite xfdf value. The hilite.aspx page will return something like the following to hilite words in the document:

<XML>
<Body units=characters color=#ff00ff mode=active version=2>
<Highlight>
<loc pg=15 pos=3583 len=5>
</Highlight>
</Body>
</XML>

This will hilight 5 chars on page 15 starting at position 3583. (note: xfdf is not real "XML" despite the similarity)

Note that acrobat reader will have to have the "Enable search highlights from external highlight server" option checked in preferences.

mosheb 2010-06-21 19:41:14

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