View page size in Acrobat 8?

I use both version 6 and version 8 in Acrobat for Windows. One of the reasons I haven't given up using Acrobat 6 on my workstation is that I can see the page size at the bottom left of each page in the single page view. I can't figure out how to get this displayed in Acrobat 8, nor find it in a help screen or among these forums. Anyone have any advice?

I am not sure, but I think you just move the mouse down to the lower left of the window and you get a popup. At least that is the way AA7 works. It is no longer displayed by default.
By the way, you are really asking a question that in the future you should put in the forum and not the feature request area. If you got a negative answer in the forum and felt it was a needed feature, then here is the correct place to come.
Hope I answered your question in any case. It had been answered a long time ago in the forum, but may not be in the archives any more. I will agree that I can't find it in the help menu either. I may just not be looking for the correct thing.

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As you have discovered, Acrobat is not a creation or editing tool. It is a program to create a final archive of a document from another application that is readable on most platforms. There have been several tools added to Acrobat to provide more functionality for forms and such, but it was never intended for the creation process.
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