Using linkname in includepdf

Question

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\nameref{mypdflabel} on page~\ref{mypdflabel}

\newpage

\newcounter{inclPDFpage}
\includepdf[pages=-,link,linkname="This is the title I want",pagecommand={\refstepcounter{inclPDFpage}\label{mypdflabel}}]{mypdf.pdf}

\end{document}

The output of the above code is simply "on page 2" but I want it to show "This is the title I want on page 2", which is what I thought nameref would do.

Any ideas on how I can get this to work?

Answer 1

linkname does not provide a name for a page etc, it changes only the hyper anchor name, e.g linkname=foo would give foo.1 etc. where 1 is a page number.

The following example does provide the correct \@currentlabelname stored by \label, which is then extracted with \nameref later on, but please note that in case of having more than page in an included .pdf file, LaTeX will complain about multiple labels with the same name.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\providename}[2]{%
  \edef\@currentlabelname{#1}%
  \label{#2}%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\nameref{mypdflabel} on page~\ref{mypdflabel}



\newpage

\newcounter{inclPDFpage}
\includepdf[pages=-,link,pagecommand={\refstepcounter{inclPDFpage}\providename{This is the title I want}{mypdflabel}}]{7.pdf}

\end{document}