Hi Cindy,



I think, but am not 100% sure, that this is an Acrobat thing you can't 
control. I just tried a few documents to see how they acted when I moved 
away by clicking a link in it and then returning by clicking the Back 
button. I found the following:



 1. In IE, when you select in Cache control "Every visit to the page" 
under Preferences > General > Settings, it will default back to the top 
of the page

 2. In FF, it seems to remember the page where it was, always

 3. When you select a page in IE, move away, select another page in FF, 
then click 'Back' in IE, it will show the position you last were in FF, 
not the one from IE.

 4. It doesn't matter whether you click on a link or type the link in 
the browser yourself, both IE and FF always remember the position if 
configured correctly.



In addition, in FF, when you have 'Open all new windows in a tab', the 
clicks from PDF will also open in a tab, and in IE, when you have Cache 
control to lower level, i.e., "Automatically", it will remember the 
position always.



So, in summary, by a little testing, you can find that each user has its 
own preferences and the Adobe Acrobat remembers the position for you, 
regardless what you code.



If you have trouble getting *your* documents to be controlled in the way 
explained above, it is likely a cache thing. I.e., if your server-side 
cache-control is set to a very short time interval or even "every 
visit", then IE nor FF will display the same page again when you click 
the Back button of the browser (see point (1) above).



It is possible (though highly discouraged outside an intranet) to use 
EcmaScript inside PDF. If you want additional control you can do 
whatever you want with it. Though I doubt that many users will like it 
when you override their preferred settings.



Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma
  http://www.nuntia.nl

Cindy Hunt wrote:
When I generate a PDF document via XSL-FO (formatted via Antenna House), I have links to some external web sites. When I open the PDF file in Internet Explorer and right-click on the link and say "open in browser", I go to the web page I want. The problem is that when I hit the back button in IE, I go back to the first page of my document instead of the link anchor point. Is there any way to control this behavior in my XSL-FO or is this something that can be set in browser settings? 



If I just left-click the link without saying "open in browser", it opens a new IE window to the web page and my document stays at the same point as where I linked from.



Any ideas on getting it to work so that when I just do a regular mouse click on the link, that it doesn't open a new window (the web page fills my document's page) but does return to my link anchor when I hot the back button?



Any ideas appreciated!



Cindy Hunt