Android: How to open a PDF file at a specific page

Question

I have seen code here which will open a PDF file in a PDF viewer. Is it possible to modify the code to make the PDF viewer open the PDF at a specific page?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 30 '12 at 19:53

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No. You cannot control 3rd party application unless it gives this possibility.

answered May 30 '12 at 19:53

Andrejs Cainikovs

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Agreed. The third party app would need to have a proprietary field in the intent filter used to designate this. But it's not in the general standard. You'd have to look for a specific app on their device to open the pdf and open it to the correct page. – Brayden May 30 '12 at 20:11
Thanks, Andrejs and Brayden. Are there any PDF Viewer apps that include such an intent? (My app is for my use only, so if there is such a PDF Viewer I could get it.) – prepbgg May 31 '12 at 17:15
There is a few of open source pdf viewers, like [andpdf](http://sourceforge.net/projects/andpdf/) or [apv](http://code.google.com/p/apv/). You could modify the sources to your needs :) – Andrejs Cainikovs May 31 '12 at 17:19
That's probably a bit beyond my capabilities! But thanks for the suggestion. – prepbgg May 31 '12 at 19:18

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '19 at 10:10

Yes You can open a Specific page in pdf file.

first of all create a global varble like

// give a defualt value

                int pageNumber=0;

                 //     secondly create   a button in search dilaoge to find exact page in activty.
                    btn.setOnClickListner(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View view) {
                    int position = 1;
                    String input = String.valueOf(textSearch.getText());
                    if (input != null && !input.equals("")) {
                        position = 



                  Integer.valueOf(String.valueOf(textSearch.getText()));
                    }

                    // assign globar var pageNumber to finding position
                    pageNumber = position-1;
                    textSearch.setText("");
                    alertDialog1.dismiss();
                }

// in Third Step just passed the pageNumber in defualt function.

       pdfViewr.from("Your uri String ").default(pageNumber).load();

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '12 at 09:39

Andrejs has recommended that I should modify an open source pdf viewer app. When I become more confident at Android programming I may attempt that. Meanwhile, I am following a different tack. I am storing images of the individual PDF pages as separate jpg files and using WebView / WebViewClient to display the individual pages. These can be zoomed and panned (as in a PDF Viewer) and it is easy to make my app move to the next or previous page when I touch the screen near the edge of the page.

KnIfER · Answer 4 · 2020-12-13T05:09:15.967

for ezpdf reader:
add intent.putExtra("page", 110);

But ezpdf is quite old. So I recommend you to checkout my new opensource pdf viewer and annotator project:

https://github.com/KnIfER/PolymPic

    Intent it = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW)
        .addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK)
        .putExtra("page", yourPageIndex)
        .setDataAndType(yourUri, "application/pdf");
    startActivity(it);

It's based on PDFium, which is fast and can even run pretty well on the android 4.4.

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 14 '12 at 20:47

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Open a PDF file to a specific page

To target an HTML link to a specific page in a PDF file, add #page=[page number] to the end of the link's URL.

For example, this HTML tag opens page 4 of a PDF file named myfile.pdf:

<A HREF="http://www.example.com/myfile.pdf#page=4">

answered Dec 14 '12 at 20:47

rizon

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This may be correct for different context but the question is tagged android and pdf-viewer so this answer is irrelevant and not helpful. – Alex May 09 '18 at 21:06

Android: How to open a PDF file at a specific page

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