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I'd like to provide a link to a PDF document in Google Drive like [documenturl]?page=4 and have that link jump to the specified page.

With a quick search, I was only able to find this unresolved forum question: Link to a specific page in an uploaded .pdf

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I think I actually did it. (Not sure if there is any danger to it, so be careful, but it worked for me with pdfs.)

First, You need to create a direct link. Find out ID (long string) of your file and enter this:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=ID

Simply add "#page=XX" at the end of it and prey that it works... (Use that one!)

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=400PoundsDreamTurnip#page=10

Upon entering it you get a real mess of a link, but you can't use it after a while, so don't use that one!

https://doc-14-c8-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/lotsAndLotsOfDigitsAndCharactersAgainAndAgain?e=view&authuser=0#page=10

That way the files take ages to load, so be patient and always use the link "export...ID"

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    What is the point of creating a link that can't be used later?
    – Rubén
    Jul 25, 2020 at 14:34
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    Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. You should use the middle link (the one with export) that on use transforms into the third one, which, as you say, is therefore pointless to use. Jul 26, 2020 at 18:58
  • Interesting: This works by opening the PDF in a different viewer than the one Drive uses by default. Based on the style it looks like one of the old viewers. Nice find, @JiříZeman Aug 25, 2020 at 3:22
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A work-around that I discovered for this is:

  1. Create a comment on the PDF. Highlight the area that you want to be able to jump to (e.g. a heading on the page).
  2. Click the 3-dot menu on the comment you just created, and choose "Link to this comment..."

You can send the displayed URL to someone and when they open it it will directly jump to that part of the PDF.

The solution by Christopher Harwood does not seem to work any more in the latest version of Google Drive.

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  • For me, still worked as a charm: very useful. Please accept my admiration. Dec 7, 2018 at 0:36
  • Create a comment in the page of .pdf you want the direct link of and copy the link of this comment. That's all!
    – Mugen
    Jun 23, 2020 at 9:30
  • problem with this solution is if you draw on the pdf and save it locally, the pdf will sync but erase the inserted comment. Which means you can't annotate the pdf.
    – jason
    Aug 11, 2021 at 19:38
  • Unfortunately, this method does not work in a webview for both iOS and Android. Bummer..
    – abbanoob
    Sep 29, 2022 at 3:41
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Edit: This no longer works.

Incomplete answer: Google Drive displays pages as images, so you can display specific pages by providing the direct image link.

https://DOMAIN/file/d/DRIVE_FILE_ID/image?pagenumber=NUMBER
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  • Still not implemented it seems as the above answer does not work. I sent feedback in Google Drive. I encourage others to do the same and link back to this item.
    – bgoodr
    Nov 18, 2017 at 18:26
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You need to add a comment inside the PDF with Acrobe Reader. Then upload it in drive, click on the three buttons on top of the comment and select "link to". Only in this case it works. If you add a comment directly in Google Drive, it doesn't work.

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Many PDF readers will honor open parameters in the link that leads to the PDF file, such as page=5. Use these parameters like this:

https://www.example.org/somefile.pdf#page=5

...or:

https://www.example.org/somefile.pdf#page=5&comment=452fde0e-fd22

To make this work with Google Drive, you need to obtain a googleusercontent.com link to the file. You can get it by downloading the file and noting the download location in chrome://downloads/ or similar download list page. In most browsers, you can open the download list by pressing Control Shift J or Control J. In the Mac Safari browser, use L.

See PDF Open Parameters.

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