Initial View of a PDF

Is there any way to have more than one panel display in the initial view of a pdf? Say, to show the bookmarks and attachments upon opening the pdf?

For something that is not in the selection menu you will likely have to get by using JavaScript. You might want to go through the JavaScript manual and see if it helps. Keep in mind that many are turning off JavaScript for the same reason as with browsers -- the source of viruses. Might be worth a try. As far as I know there is no default that you could check otherwise.

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Initial View set in PDF Document not working.

I have a PDF document w/Initial View in the Document Properties set to Navigation tab: 'Bookmarks panel and Page', and Open to page '1''. However, when I send this document out, the Initial View settings do not happen (The PDF opens to the page last accessed before the document was sent and the navigation pane does not display). Help - what am I missing or doing wrong when trying to distribute PDF?
I am using Acrobat X Pro.

It might be the settings in Acrobat that is causing the problem. Edit – Preferences…, under Categories select Documents. Uncheck Restore last view settings when reopening documents.

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

Initial View issues with PDF portfolio

I am creating a pdf portfolio in Acrobat 10.1.1. The layout is Freeform, when I save it and email it to clients, it never opens to the same size, depending on their screen size or window size, it either stretches or squeezes the file folders and the become out of place (and cover up other things). Is there a way to set the properties of the pdf portfolio so that it always opens up to a certain size? there for no matter what size the monitor is my clients use, it will open to how its designed? I know you can set up pdfs to open up at 100%, 500%, fit to window, actual size, etc.. but I want to take those properties and apply it to the pdf portfolio..
Thanks

Hi "the Conditioner",
For a FreeForm portfolio you can set the default size of the icons ("cards").
You may want to play around with the options to see what works best for you.
To change the size of the cards, do the following:
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.
Hope this helps,
Charlene

Exporting PDF's - Initial View settings?

Hey all!
Is there any way from InDesign CS4 to set the Initial View of the PDF when exporting your layout to a PDF? I would like to be able to set the display of the Navigation Tab, the Page layout, Magnification, and a few security settings. Is this even possible? Or do I just have to do this from Acrobat? This might be where developing a script for Acrobat might be in my future
Much thanks!
Eric

That must be done in Acrobat.
Bob

Default initial view that applies to all PDFs opened

Is it possible to set a default PDF initial view that applies to every pdf opened, regardless of the source of the pdf? Simply put, I want to have the initial view of EVERY pdf I open to be at 100% zoom and no bookmark panel. Obviously this can be done manually every time I open a pdf, which will then reopen with those settings. It seems logical that I should be able to set a default initial view that will apply to any pdf I open and not require me to manually set every one. I've tried every option noted in all the forums I have found, using prologue and epilogue, file>properties, edit>preferences, action wizard. It all boils down to this...I don't want to manually set anything. I want to open pdf documents in the initial view I prefer.

I have spend a great deal of time researching this exact question. What I have found is that essentially the answer is "no". I have come up with a workaround that isn't painless, but it gets the results I want without having to touch every pdf after it is opened.
I set up an Action in Acrobat that has the options I want (page and 100% with no bookmark panel open) and run it against pdfs in a specified directory. It sets all initial views for any pdf in the directory to what I want. The action can also be run against any directory or file, but for my purposes I find doing it in a sort of "batch" mode works best. To set the Action:
     1.     Open Acrobat (with no other pdfs open)
     2.     File >Action Wizard>Create New Action
     3.     On right panel set
                         Start with:     "Ask When Action is Started"
                         Save to:          "The Same Folder Selected at Start", check "Overwrite existing Files"
                                             (if you plan to run this action against a directory as I am)
     4.     From left panel
                         Select Document Processing>Set Open Options
     5.     In right panel click on "Options" for the step you just created and set the initial view you desire
     6.     Save
When you want to use the action you can access it from Acrobat opening window or any pdf file you currently have open.
Another alternative is to use Distiller with epilogue.ps or prologue.ps to append this initial view to any document created. As I don't create many pdfs, it didn't really help with what I wanted to do. .

Is there a way to set the default Initial View to Bookmarks Panel and Page on word documents that I save as PDF?

When I save my word 2013 documents as Adobe PDF I have to open the PDF up, go to File>Properties>Initial View>Navigation Tab and then set the initial view as Bookmark Panel and Page; it gets pretty tedious.
I use Save as Adobe PDF rather than Print to Adobe PDF Printer because I like being able to have the security settings automatically set.
I just want to be able to save my word document as Adobe PDF with the initial view already set as Bookmark Panel and Page, and with security, so I can send it out immediately.
Is this possible?
Thank you.

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Batch create multiple pdf's while using epilogue.ps for setting initial view and opening bookmarks

Hi,
I'm trying to batch create multiple pdf's from word files, and use the epilogue.ps file for setting the initial view and opening the bookmarks panel, but i keep getting no satisfying result.. i'm probably missing something fundamental.
I've read some forum posts and adobe help posts explaining this, so i'm pretty sure this would be possible?
Reference:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7f0f.w .html see advanced panel options
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7f14.w.html
System: Windows 7
Acrobat: Acrobat X professional
i've searched for and found a way to overwite the epilogue.ps file and have inserted the following:
% Insert your custom PostScript here...
[ /PageMode /UseThumbs
/Page 1 /View [/Fit ]
/DOCVIEW pdfmark
After that i checked my Adobe Acrobat preferences, and in the categorie 'Convert to Pdf' i selected 'Microsoft office word' in the select area 'Converting to pdf'.
Clicked 'Edit settings' to allow creating a joboptions file (field: 'adobe pdf settings') which has the option 'Use epiloque.ps and prologue.ps' checked in the advanced section.
So now i thought i would have everyting setup to create my pdf's, however, my view isn't changed to fit, nor are there any bookmarks or in this case thumbs (i used /useThumbs) visible.
Did i miss something obvious? Is there a better way to test this? Any help would be appreciated!

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PDF through VBA: How to set Initial View?

- Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (sorry we're a bit out of date)
- MS Office 2003
- MS Windows XP Professional SP2
I am trying to automate the creation of PDFs from MS Word. I have succeeded. My VBA code works fine (have pasted it below). I can create a PDF, and give it a title and author.
The problem I am having is with the Initial View settings, i.e. how the document opens. I want to hardcode:
1. Show to "Page Only"
2. Page Layout to "Continuous"
3. Magnification to "Fit Width"
The first I have done, using AcroExch.PDDoc's SetPageMode() function (although it seems to default to that even without doing this). I cannot, for the life of me, find any reference to the second and third, though. This must be doable, right? Be kind of weird not to have access to this in the API.
Hours of Googling has thrown up three ideas I've discarded.
1. AcroExch.App's SetPreference() function. This would presumably change preferences on the machine making the PDF, not reading it. I don't want to fiddle with other people's preferences anyway.
2. AcroExch.AVPageView's ZoomTo() function. Ditto. I am not creating an app to view PDFs, just trying to configure the default for opening one I've created.
3. An "undocumented" SetOpenInfo() in AcroExch.PDDoc. This looked the most promising for Magnification, but nobody seems to be able to get it to work, and it does nothing for me either. Someone somewhere even suggested it had been deprecated in later versions of Acrobat.
So... what do I do?
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
jON
===============================================
Sub MakePDF(strFilename As String, strTitle As String, strAuthor As String)
Dim pdfD As PdfDistiller
Dim strPDFName As String
Dim strPSName As String
strPSName = strFilename & ".ps"
strPDFName = strFilename & ".pdf"
'... make PS
Application.ActivePrinter = myPDFPrinter
Application.PrintOut Filename:="", _
Range:=wdPrintAllDocument, _
Item:=wdPrintDocumentContent, _
Copies:=1, _
Pages:="", _
PageType:=wdPrintAllPages, _
ManualDuplexPrint:=False, _
Collate:=True, _
Background:=False, _
PrintToFile:=True, _
PrintZoomColumn:=0, _
PrintZoomRow:=0, _
PrintZoomPaperWidth:=0, _
PrintZoomPaperHeight:=0, _
OutputFileName:=strPSName, _
Append:=False
'... make PDF
Set pdfD = New PdfDistiller
pdfD.FileToPDF strPSName, strPDFName, ""
'... tag PDF
Set qq = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
b = qq.Open(strPDFName)
b = qq.SetInfo("Title", strProperties_Title)
b = qq.SetInfo("Author", strProperties_Author)
b = qq.SetPageMode(1) '... 1 = PDUseNone
b = qq.Save(33, strPDFName) '... 33 = PDSaveFull (1) OR PDSaveCollectGarbage (32)
b = qq.Close
End Sub

I have the same problem. I need to change Initial View Settings configuring the following settings
2. Page Layout to "Single Page"
3. Magnification to "Fit Width"
My software configuration is as follows:
- Adobe Acrobat 7.9
- Microsoft Windows XP SP2
- Visual Basic 6
Has anyone worked with this attributes of Acrobat?

Setting Initial View of .PDF when exporting from ID

Hi,
I use 5.0.1 and upgrading is not an option due to the IT department - don't get me started!
I have created a document in ID with Bookmarks to aid navigation when its converted to a PDF.
In Acrobat 8.0 there is a feature to set the initial view to open the pdf with the bookmarks tab showing - Document Settings > Initial View > Layout & Magnification > Bookmarks Panel & Page.
Is it possible to set this attribute in ID without having to use Acrobat after creating the pdf? i.e when I export the ID file to pdf it is effectivly fire and forget.
Thanks in advance all...

No need to apologize - I'm a rookie when it comes to IS detail.
I use Acrobat Standard 8.1 when setting the initial view and IE 7. There are no security settings set.
I'm posting the documents on a web site and others that open to view are most likely using Acrobat Reader.
Not certain what I should try next. I appreciate your help.

Set PDF Document Properties Initial View by Acrobat SDK with C#

Hi,
Here am trying to set the PDF document initial view by the Acrobat SDK with C#.
Here I am show my screen shot which properties I want to set.
For this process I am referred Acrobat SDK and also following Adobe forums they also asked similar question.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3866361
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4803264
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk
And also I am used following C# code
      Acrobat.AcroPDDocClass doc = new Acrobat.AcroPDDocClass();
      doc.Open(@"D:\..\sap.pdf");
doc.SetOpenInfo(1,1,"Fit Width");
      doc.SetPageMode(3);
      doc.Save(1, @"D:\..\sap.pdf");
      doc.Close();
From the above code {doc.SetPageMode(3);} is working for set the page mode.
But I am having problem in following code {doc.SetOpenInfo(1,1,"Fit Width");}
Because it won’t work I do’t known, and there is no clear samples in the SDK reference document.
So please give advice and clear sample code/syntax to meet above needs which are marked in red box.
Document Properties - > Intial View
Document Option
     Show: Bookmarks Panel and Page
     Page Layout: Continuous
     Magnification: Fit Width
Window Options
     Show : Document Title
Regards,
Thirusanguraja Venkatesan

ok thank you Test Screen
I will try and let you know if i am done by automation .
Regard,
Thirusanguraja Venkatesan

Initial View set with epilogue.ps when exporting pdf from Indesign

Hi all. After years of Quarking, Freehanding, Pagemakering and my favourite, Indesigning, i finally got down to investigating a one step solution to setting the initial view in pdfs.
When distributing pdf 'layouts' and 'proofs' to clients i always set the pdf's initial view to fit page before emailing. It is simply the pro thing to do, and allows for a client to view the 'big picture' without having to first see a close-up of the top of a layout or design.
In the same breath i would set a business card layout to open at 125% or 150% so they get a feel for the actual size of finished product.
Well all these years of pdf proofing i have been hitting the old ⌘-D in Acrobat and manually setting initial view to fit page. Then ⌘-S and "bobs your uncle".
Ready to email.
Huge deadlines aside, this morning i woke up early, and decided to have a good look online as to what one can do to automate this small, but oh so repetitive task. Well reading about the prologue.ps and epilogue.ps, got me really excited, especially when i implemented a little postscript tweak to the epilogue.ps, and distiller saw it through beautifully.
Alas my elation was short lived as it seems Indesign uses it's own 'distiller' so to speak and does not see the epilogue.ps.
And i am definitely not going to start printing ps files to a 'watched folder'. I spent years distilling manually, and since Indesign and it's superb built in pdf-ing, i have never looked back.
So looks like we are all gonna have to continue ⌘-D ing, till adobe picks this up and changes the build to accomodate.
Just wanted to put this out there, and see perhaps if anybody has another take on this one. Am i missing something. If i am please let us all know.
Many thanks,
Rupert Pluck

If you upgrade to InDesign CS5, there are two ways to export a PDF file: (1) For Print. This this does not include the option to set Initial View (2) For Interactive. For Interactive PDF's you can set the Initial View in InDesign.

Is it possible to generate PDF 1.5 with linearization & initial view = bookmarks?

Hello,
I need to convert Office documents to PDF 1.5 (Acrobat 6) with the following properties:
- Web view (linearization)
- Initial view = Bookmarks panel and page.
Each way I tried, in fact produced PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7).
Is it doable to to generate PDF 1.5?
Thanks for help
Mathias

Using Acrobat 7.0.9, the following VB code generates PDF 1.6:
Set AcroDoc = New AcroPDDoc
bRet = AcroDoc.Open(pdfDocName)
bRet = AcroDoc.SetPageMode(PDViewMode.PDUseBookmarks)
bRet = AcroDoc.Save(PDSaveLinearized + PDSaveFull, pdfDocName)
How to generate PDF 1.5 ?
Regards,
Mathias

Prevent pdf initial view settings from disabling my menu bar

Some pdf files are configured with initial view settings to remove my menu bar and other toolbars. This is incredibly intrusive, and difficult to get those back unless you know the correct keyboard shortcuts. Most users don't.
So please tell me how to permanently disable pdf files from asserting their own initial view settings on my viewing environment. I do not want to permit them to take over my window and get rid of my menu bars. I find that behaviour incredibly annoying.
Thanks

Sorry, you can set the default view parameters only for documents that the author has not specified a view option for.
You might be able to write a plug-in that could change the open document action.
Have you tried contacting the authors about this issue?

Pdf initial view doesn't work in firefox

I set the initial view in properties of a pdf I created and have on a webpage to open with 'Two-up Continuous (Cover Page) and 'Bookmarks Panel and Page'. In Internet Explorer it always opens with the bookmarks panel and page and 'two-up', but in Firefox, the two-up page works, but the bookmarks panel never shows. Is there a reason for this?

If images are missing then check that you aren't blocking images from some domains.
*Check the permissions for the domain in the current tab in "??tp > Permissions"
*Check that images are enabled: ??to > Content: [X] Load images automatically
*Check the exceptions in "??to > Content: Load Images > Exceptions"
*Check the "??tp > Media" tab for blocked images (scroll through all the images with the cursor Down key).
If an image in the list is grayed and there is a check-mark in the box "<i>Block Images from...</i>" then remove that mark to unblock the images from that domain.
Make sure that you do not block third-party images, the permissions.default.image pref should be 1.
There are also extensions like Adblock Plus (??ta > Extensions) and security software (firewall, anti-virus) that can block images and other content.
See also:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Images_or_animations_do_not_load
You can also check the Net log in the Web Console (Tools > Web Developer;Cmd+Shift+K) for errors.
*https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tools/Web_Console

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