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Add-On tool demands new toolbar line

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2008-10-08 01:32:10
teledu
Registered: May 10 2007
Posts: 42

I've added a couple of the javascript tools that generate a button on the Add-On Tools toolbar.
I can arrange this very short toolbar on any of the existing toolbar lines, but irrespective of whether or not I lock the toolbars, every time I close and restart Acrobat this toolbar demands a new toolbar line, so I lose another chunk of screen real-estate until I drag it somewhere else. Anyone else seen this behaviour and/or a fix?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Windows
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2008-10-08 12:51:02
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thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
The Add-Ons toolbar is dynamically generated, button by button, after all of the other toolbars are created so it, unfortunately falls a bit outside of Acrobat's toolbar arrangement schemes.

One of the problems is that Acrobat dynamically sets whether the toolbar button labels are displayed. When Acrobat is automatically placing toolbars at startup it will place the Add-Ons in the same line that it was last placed, until the labels push it off. So if you either force toolbar labels off, a preference, or place the add-ons on a line with other toolbars that are short enough to diplay the labels or buttons, then it shouldn't demand a new line (no garruntees).

But what the hey, moving the toolbars isn't the biggest headache in Acrobat.

Thom Parker
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