Initial View in a PDF Portfolio

I have just started using the new portfolio feature, I have four forms that I've combined. I am using the Grid with Preview option to layout the files. When I open the portfolio it always opens to the same page in the second form, how do I change it to open to the first page of the first form?

Michael,
Can you explain precisely?
Cover Sheet? In Acrobat Pro 9? Where?
A search in the Help file returns nothing when searching for "Cover Sheet" or even "Welcome Page."
In Acrobat Pro 8, there was an explicit command to set the currently viewed document as the start document.
The Help files describe setting an Initial View for a Portfolio; but when you select Portfolio Properties... from the File menu, you get a Document Properties dialog, not a Portfolio Properties dialog. You only get an Initial VIew pane for a document.
JET

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You may want to play around with the options to see what works best for you.
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1. Open the portfolio.
2. Ensure you are in "Layout" mode. You can click the "Layout" button to do so.
3. Click the Edit button.
4. On the upper right menu, click Layout to bring up the Layout panel.
5. At the very bottom of the Layout panel is the "Portfolio Properties".
6. Change the "Card Size".
Your choices are Small, Medium, Large and Auto-Size.
7. Save the portfolio. Close the portfolio (don't close Acrobat).
Resize the Acrobat window. Open the portfolio (File > Open or from the recent files list) and see how it looks in different size windows.
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| e: [email protected]
| w: www.1lb.ca

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Within a PDF portfolio i need to link from a PDF to a folder view in the Portfolio. I am using Link Action - Go to Page View.
This used to work for me - very important feature that no longer works. Please advise a workaround.
Steps:
1. Start a PDF Portfolio that contains files and folders
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3. in the opened PDF click Add or Edit Link
4. Define a link area and set it to Go To A Page Vies
5. In the past i have been able to target a Folder View in the Portfolio - ie. direct a user not to a file, but instead to a folder view that contains relevant files. I would do this by setting the Target Page View to my desired folder view
6. This used to work in bringing a user to the folder view i specify. Now it does nothing. If i go back to the PDF and EDIT the Link i see this. File: Parent Document Page 1. This in fact does nothing.
Please advise, am i doing this wrong, it used to work. I have tried several workarounds, with no luck.
thanks!
Alejandro Collados-Nunez
Graphic Designer | Art Director
| e: [email protected]
| w: www.1lb.ca

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