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Is the PDF document bookmarked? If so, do either Poppler or Ghostscript have an API that let you navigate to a bookmark?
Another option: Convert the PDF to HTML and use QtWebKit to display it. This PDF to HTML tool looks pretty impressive: PDFToHTML There is also this tool which might let you turn it into a Qt Assistant document.
After further research, I see that PDFToHTML is now part of Poppler. This looks interesting enough that I might try it out.
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