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keno74
Registered: Nov 24 2008
Posts: 2

We are a design company sending out PDF's on an hourly basis.

We like all our PDF's to open on our clients computers so that the PDF magnification always ‘fits to page’.

At the moment we manually open each PDF and alter the settings from ‘default’ to ‘Fit Page’.

Does any one know of a way we can either set the Distiller or have a tool bar button on Acrobat whereby with 1 click the our PDF’s settings change to open with ‘Fit Page’ on matter what computer the PDF is view on.

We are happy to purchase any type of plug-in or script.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Macintosh
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi keno74,

Yes, you can create a toolbar button that will execute the menu item FitPage with one click on any open PDF in Acrobat. WindJack's plug-in AcroButtons makes this a fairly easy job, but you can do it yourself if you know some JavaScript using the app.addToolBar method. You can find info on using this method in the Acrobat JavaScript Reference ( http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/ ) under app Methods.

Also, if you want to do this on many PDFs at once you can use a Batch Process and I believe the FitPage is a built-in option. See Advanced ->Document Processing ->Batch Processing and look at the options available under the Document Open heading.Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
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daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
As Dimitri points out, you can use a Batch Sequence.
Try "Open Options" which comes, out of the box, with Acrobat.

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