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Opening Form or document Full Screen

TiPat
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 9
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I have a form created in Acrobat 8. Recepients can only open in 45% screen. How do I change document so that receipients with READER only will automatically open in 100% screen?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Windows
rhickey
Registered: Sep 27 2007
Posts: 84
If you're speaking of how to set the initial view settings...This can be controlled by going to File > Properties and choosing the Initial View tab then saving the PDF again. See capture below.This will work OK assuming the users Acrobat reader preferences settings for Page Display is set to Automatic for the Page Layout and Zoom options.

[img]http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/8885/initialviewlr1.jpg[/img]
TiPat
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 9
All tabs or little check boxes are greyed out on the Document Properties. So, I can change this????
rhickey
Registered: Sep 27 2007
Posts: 84
Is this a form you created?
I would guess not, because it sounds like whom ever created it implemented some security settings to it to prevent (or discourage) edits by others.

You can see the security restrictions form the very same Properties window under the Security tab... My guess is it's password protected to not allow changes to the doc.
TiPat
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 9
It is not password protected. No security settings. I converted an Excel document with LiveCycle to this form. Changing the document or document assembly not allowed to allow Acrobat Reader extended features.
gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
If the form was created in LiveCycle Designer, you lose the ability to modify many PDF properties in Acrobat. You will need to use the following JavaScript in the "docReady" event:

app.fs.isFullScreen = true;

This code will throw a warning message.

George Kaiser

TiPat
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 9
I really appreciate this. However, the Java script application is beyond my capabilities. Thanks a lot!