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Posted: 10 Oct 10 at 5:42AM

I have some pdf files, their internal links to other page is use named distination option. I fond GetAnnotDest and GetActionDest cannot get the destid.

How can i get the DESTID?

thanks in advance for your help!

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Posted: 12 Oct 10 at 1:29PM

If the annotation is a "Link" annotation then the GetAnnotDest function is used to get the destination (the DestID). If the DestID is zero it means there is no destination only an action for that Link annotation.

So this means, if DestID is a positive number then the GetDestPage function is used to get the page that the destination points to, but if the DestID is zero then the GetAnnotIntProperty is used to get the action's page.

Another way of doing it for annotations with actions is using these functions:

GetAnnotActionID

GetActionDest

GetDestPage

In addition, for retrieving the destination zoom and location, the GetDestValue function can be used.

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Posted: 12 Oct 10 at 3:50PM

Thank you for your useful amswers!
I try again, if i open the Quick PDF Library 7.22 Reference Guide.pdf, you are right.
but when i open
js_developer_guide.pdf
you can download from website:
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/js_developer_guide.pdf
But i still cannot get the action's page.
can you help me?
thank youvery much.

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Posted: 16 Oct 10 at 3:18PM

I am waiting for help!
Any one can help me?

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Posted: 20 Oct 10 at 9:39AM

If you're working with named destinations then use the GetNamedDestination function. It locates the named destination with the specified name and returns a DestID that can be used with the GetDestPage, GetDestType and GetDestValue functions.

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Posted: 20 Oct 10 at 11:04AM

Thank you very much for your reply.

The key is how can I get the specified name where a certain annotation links?

I still need your help.

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Posted: 24 Oct 10 at 6:18PM

Hello Rowan

Is there a "SetNamedDestination" to give a name to an outline link (bookmark) or an annotation?

I wish to retrieve a page in a PDF document not by the pageNumber, but by a named destination. So I have to build such a Dests outline tree :
1 0 obj
<</Type/Catalog
/Names 2 0 R
>>
endobj

2 0 obj
<</Dests 3 0 R
>>
endobj

3 0 obj
<</Names [
(intro) 15 0 R
(conclusion) 16 0 R
(contact) 17 0 R
]
>>

Is it possible (and how) to do it?

Many thanks for your reply.

Gérard

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