Keep Navigation Panels open in Acrobat 9

Hi Lisa,

Set the PDF's initial view to show the desired Navigation tab.
File > Properties
Select the Initial View tab.
In the Layout and Magnification pane, for Navigation tabs:
you have the following choices.

--| Pages Only
--| Bookmarks Panel and Page
--| Pages Panel and Page
--| Attachment Panel and Page
--| Layers Panel an Page

Alternatively, you can use, with Acrobat Pro, a Batch Sequence.
Advanced > Document Processing > Batch Processing...
In the Batch Sequences dialog, click the New Sequence button.
In the Name Sequence dialog, give the sequence a name, click OK.
Back in the Batch Sequences dialog, select your new sequence and click the Edit Sequence button.
In the Edit Batch Sequence - , click the Select Commands button.
In the Edit Sequence dialog, scroll the left side list to locate "Open Options".
Select it then click the "Add>>" button.
Select "Open Options" in the right side "window". Click the "Edit" button.
In the Set Open Options, configure your desired PDF open options.
Click OK.
Click OK again to leave the Edit Sequence dialog.
Back in the Edit Batch Sequence dialog you can play with settings.
Typically, the defaults are just fine.
When done, click OK.

In the Batch Sequences dialog, you select the sequence to run & click the Run Sequence button.
The confirmation dialog opens. Click OK.
In the Select Files to Process dialog, browse to the single or many PDFs to process.
Select those to process.
Click the Select button.
The Progress dialog appears.

Assuming the defaults for Edit Batch Sequence were used, after the Progress dialog closes
you are left with the Batch Sequences dialog. Close it.

Use File > Open, browse to the PDFs processed, open one, open the Document Properties dialog.
In the Initial View tab you will observe the values you established in the Open Options Sequence.

Be well...

Thank you for the response. That is for individual files though. How do I set this as my default for any document I open. I never had to go in and turn on my pages menu in version 8 its only in this new version that I do.

Is there a preferences menu I can set?

This would depend upon how you create the PDF. If in MS Office or Open Office you can specify the opening properties. If you are using distiller on PS files you can use PDF Mark commands in the PS file. It maybe even possible to insert PS PDF Mark commands in to the PS print stream, in MS Office you can use the special print field to add the PDF Mark commands to the print stream from MS Office to distiller.

Hi,

It seems the previous answers you received did not quite address your question.


I think I understand what you're asking - You want the preference to apply to ALL .pdf documents you open, not just the ones you create!

One way to do this is to leave the "Show Navigation Pane" on:

http://acc.aub.edu.lb/mod/book/view.php?id=493&chapterid=820