Jay Bryant wrote:

If the # sign is present, then the browser can try to link to a 
particular place in the PDF file. If it's not present, then the 
browser doesn't have the information needed to link to a particular 
place in the PDF file.

Yes and no. See my previous post on this subject related to the way the 
browser uses the cache. If you have a #xyz in the link, then the browser 
will only go to the anchor 'xyz' if the page needs to be refreshed. This 
is true so for PDF as well as HTML (or any the like) documents. IE is a 
bit more tricky here then FF, but both behave like this in general.




A browser can only link to a particular place in a PDF file if the PDF 
file includes named destinations.

Yes, but only when you access the PDF from an external link with anchor 
information. If you click to it internally, the browser doesn't know 
anything about it and Adobe will do the location-remembering.







(I recently implemented named destinations for FOP, so this subject 
rings a big bell with me.)

Good to hear that! ;)




Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma