Issue 1: For some reason, about a month ago my copy of Acrobat 8 Pro decided to start opening any document in an entirely different fashion than it had before. Now it opens at full screen width (instead of 100% document size as it had previously) and all my toolbars are hidden. Sure, I can just push F8 and then resize the view, but those are two steps that I am constantly having to do over and over, and it's really just annoying. I thought for sure there was an option to have it open the way I want it to every time, but nothing in the preferences menus will let me save a "open at 100% with all toolbars showing" setting. How do I make this work?
Issue 2: My navigation panes are no longer working the way they should. For one, I can't open them by clicking on the icon along the left side of the screen; I have to click and drag the pane out into the middle of my screen, which then means that my pane is overlying a generous portion of the text. Which is the other problem -- I can no longer dock my panes along the sides of Acrobat. The only option is the hovering pane that eats up so much real estate of the document itself. Once again, I can't seem to find any way to change this in any of the preferences menus. A little help, please?
Thanks,
Andreas
Something to try.
Edit > Preferences > Documents Category
Play with the settings.
Some of them are:
Show each document in its own window (requires restart)
Restore last view settings when reopening documents
Open cross-document links in same window
Allow documents to hide the menu bar, toolbars, and window controls
View > Navigation Panels > Reset Panels
Then, back to View > Navigation Panels & open those you want.
If you have a floating palette or palettes then -
View > Navigation Panels > Dock All PanelsAnd, of course, there is always:
--| if not already done, sequence through all applicable Acrobat 8.x updates
and
--| Help > Repair Acrobat Installation.Be well...
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