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Setting for Initial View=Bookmarks Panel & Page doesn't stick!

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2010-06-27 17:38:09
mark99k
Registered: Apr 28 2010
Posts: 24

AA Pro here, relatively new install. In prior Acrobat versions changing the Initial View spec (in Doc Properties) would make the file 'dirty' (as in savable) so that the change would 'take'. Now, it seems I can't save the Initial View settings with the doc -- the Save icon is grayed out, and closing & reopening shows the doc without the panel open. Why doesn't the View setting stick?

The only method I've found to make it stick is to change the Initial View setting and then manually mangle one of the bookmarks, save, unmangle the bookmark, and save again!

This can't be the official method, eh??

What's the secret? I've got 66 files to do this to, so this is not a fun prospect....

MT

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Windows
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2010-06-28 07:13:28
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
If that approach does not work, you can try the [b]undocumented[/b] 'pane' property of the the 'doc' object. You can place the following script as a document level function:
this.pane = 'Bookmarks';
To add this to a large number of PDFs you can use the Batch Processor to 'addScript(cName, cScript)'
this.addScript("OpenBookmarks","this.pane = \"B\";");

George Kaiser

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2010-06-28 07:18:12
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mark99k
Registered: Apr 28 2010
Posts: 24
Agh... I was hoping it wouldn't involve learning another level of programming. Merely changing the Initial View always worked in prior versions, shouldn't it do the same here? Failing that, where do I put these lines of code? TIA.

MT

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2010-10-26 08:49:52
#3
PhilB316
Registered: Oct 26 2010
Posts: 1
Hi All,
I'm a newbie to programming Acrobat (but not to programming/debugging generally) however I ran into this Bookmarks pane problem and FWIW, found that:
My Env:
Acrobat 9
Reader 9.4
Using Reader plug-in in IE/Firefox and am using the "embed" HTML statement:
This requires the Adobe Reader 9 (or later) Plug-in.Results ...
1) Firefox is well-behaved and uses the script(as George posted) and Acrobat Property initial settings
2) IE is NOT well-behaved and must have security applied or else the pane does NOT open regardless of acrobat scripts, property settings, or parameters passed in the URL (#pagemode=bookmarks).

As I have 'way too many hours in debugging the various combinations, I will leave the security settings in place as well as all the other methods that are supposed to work (but don't for IE!)

Hope this helps ...
Phil
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