I want to go to a particular page in a 100 pages pdf file using a push button in matlab GUI. What command should I use in the push button callback function?

I want to go to a particular page in a 100 pages pdf file using a push button in matlab GUI. What command should I use in the push button callback function?

[Walter Roberson]

What does it mean to you to "go" to that page? Is it being displayed with web() ? Do you have an Acrobat Reader DC program running and you want MATLAB to somehow send commands to it to move to page 100?

[Jorge Mario Guerra González]

@Walter Roberson Just realized that when you attemp to open a pdf document with web() it opens Acrobat instead.

 web(<pdf direction>)

opens pdf on Acrobat.

[Walter Roberson]

What web() does is going to depend upon the -browser option; and once you are not using the built-in browser then what is done with pdf is going to depend upon the browser settings.

On my OS-X system, I just used web() on a .pdf without using a -browser option; it opened OS-X's built-in Preview utility, which is not what my default browser is configured to do but is the default for opening pdf files from the file explorer.

Answer 1

[Jorge Mario Guerra González]

The command to do that is:

 system("Acrobat directory" /A "page=20" "your file directory");

Do it as if you were doing it on the command line.

As an example of a file I open on my computer.

 system('"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" /A "page=10" "C:\Users\Jorgue Guerra\Desktop\TrabajoGr.pdf"');

1. Goes to where Adobe instaler the adobe reader

2. sets page 10

3. specifies the file I want to open which is on desktop.

[ARUP MUKHERJEE]

Thank you Jorge. It works :)