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I search a way to address a single page in a PDF which is in an email.

Is there an official URL/URI spec which handles this case?

AFAIK there are these steps to get to the page:

  1. address the mail.
  2. address the pdf attachment in the mail (there could be several attachments in the mail)
  3. address page number N in the pdf.
guettli
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  • This may be helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9983248/can-an-html-email-body-reference-a-file-sent-as-an-attachment-in-the-same-email/9983277#9983277 – Ryan H. Sep 13 '17 at 20:23

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It is not possible to add a link to a specific attachment in an email, however it is possible to link to a specific page in a PDF externally.

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.

If you host the PDFs somewhere instead of sending them as attachments you can get something close to what you want.

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