Macro to Go To Specific Page in Hyperlinked PDF

poetofpiano · #1 12-10-2016, 09:27 PM

I am trying to create a Word 2016 VBA macro that goes to a specific page in a hyperlinked PDF when the page number is part of the hyperlink address.

The most I could find on the subject is at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...from-word-2013. The solution offered there is not of interest to me because I need the PDF to open with either FoxitPDF reader or SumatraPDF—not an internet browser. But one user at that link offered the following VBA macro solution:

Code:

Sub [Name Of Script]()
Dim targetLink As String
Dim targetName As String
Dim pageNumber As Integer
Dim pathPDF As String
targetName = Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Name
parts = Split(targetName, "page=")
pageNumber = parts(1)
pathPDF = Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Address
Call OpenPagePDF(pathPDF, pageNumber)
End Sub

Public Function OpenPagePDF(sMyPDFPath As String, iMyPageNumber As Integer)
Dim RtnCode, AdobePath As String
AdobePath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe"
RtnCode = Shell(AdobePath & " /a " & Chr(34) & "page=" & iMyPageNumber & "=OpenActions" & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & sMyPDFPath & Chr(34), 1)
End Function

This solution uses Adobe reader to open a word hyperlink to a PDF and assumes that the hyperlink address is named something like C:\Users\John\Dropbox\Examplefile.pdf#page=5 so that the macro knows to go to page 5 of the PDF. I tried to modify this macro to point to Sumatra as follows:

Code:

Sub [Name Of Script]()
Dim targetLink As String
Dim targetName As String
Dim pageNumber As Integer
Dim pathPDF As String
targetName = Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Name
parts = Split(targetName, "page=")
pageNumber = parts(1)
pathPDF = Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Address
Call OpenPagePDF(pathPDF, pageNumber)
End Sub

Public Function OpenPagePDF(sMyPDFPath As String, iMyPageNumber As Integer)
Dim RtnCode, AdobePath As String
AdobePath = " C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe"
RtnCode = Shell(AdobePath & " /a " & Chr(34) & "page=" & iMyPageNumber & "=OpenActions" & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & sMyPDFPath & Chr(34), 1)
End Function

However, it does not open the desired PDF at page 5. Instead it opens the PDF in Sumatra at page 1 as well as two other Sumatra windows: one that says “error loading C:\a” and another that says “Error loading C:\Users\John \Dropbox\page=5=OpenActions”

I thought maybe this was just a problem with Sumatra PDF, but when I change the executable to point to Foxit, the desired PDF doesn’t even open at all when I execute the macro — Foxit just opens with a blank background.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this a working macro? Thank you so much in advance!

gmayor · #2 12-11-2016, 02:59 AM

I don't use either of these PDF readers, but whichever you call you have to use the syntax it understands and not that for Adobe Reader.

See https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/...line-arguments

poetofpiano · #3 12-11-2016, 04:59 PM

Thank you so much gmayor. With your help, I was able to make it work:

Code:

Sub GoToPDFhyperlinkPage()
Dim targetLink As String
Dim targetName As String
Dim pageNumber As Integer
Dim pathPDF As String
targetName = Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Name
parts = Split(targetName, "page=")
pageNumber = parts(1)
pathPDF = Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Address
Call OpenPagePDF(pathPDF, pageNumber)
End Sub

Public Function OpenPagePDF(sMyPDFPath As String, iMyPageNumber As Integer)
Dim RtnCode, AdobePath As String
AdobePath = Chr(34) & "C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe" & Chr(34)
' need it enclosed in quotes b/c there is a space in "Program Files"
RtnCode = Shell(AdobePath & " " & Chr(45) & "page" & " " & iMyPageNumber & " " & Chr(45) & "reuse" & Chr(45) & "instance" & " " & Chr(34) & sMyPDFPath & Chr(34), 1)
End Function

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