Are named destinations supported/planned?

[BlueWlvrn]

Does FPDF2 support or plan to support named destinations? I only see references to explicit destinations (page,x,y).

[Lucas-C]

Hi @BlueWlvrn

No, currently fpdf2 does not support Named Destinations.

It could be ineteresting to add support for them though.
Do you have a use-case in mind, in order to better undestand the usages of this feature?

[BlueWlvrn]

My current use case would be to jump to a specific cell of a large table. Right now I can get to the top of the table but getting to a spot inside would seem to require a bit of guess work. Another thing it might help with is when an unknown sized table of contents is used. I noticed my page#s for links become inaccurate. The magic I think is how they become abstracted targets for links. In google searches the AI was getting confused between py and php versions of fpdf. It seems the php version does support it. I believe PDF::Builder in Perl does as well. But my app needs python.

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[Lucas-C]

Hi @BlueWlvrn

Thank you for providing more details.

I think we should be able to add this feature to fpdf2.

Would you like to contribute this yourself, with a PR?
I can help you with that if you are interested?
Else I'll just create a dedicated feature request issue, and any contributor will then be able to work on this.

[BlueWlvrn]

Thanks for looking at this. Please make a feature request issue.

[Lucas-C]

Done: #1545