View facing pages in full screen on dual monitors

There is a preference that you can set for full screen startup. Edit --> Preferences--> Full Screen panel. Make sure the check box for "Fill screen with one page at a time" is not selected so that you can show facing pages.

This doesn't work. For starters, the feature you describe is not available in version 7. Assuming I can get v8 supported by corporate IS, I still don't get what I need.

The problem is touch screens. For two touch screens to work, they have to be set up in independent mode (Control Panel -> Display Settings shows two monitors) so the touch input from each screen can be mapped to the corresponding screen area. If you set the monitors up in "stretched" mode (Display Settings shows one big monitor), there's no way for the separate touch input channels to be mapped to the same Windows desktop.Your solution only works in stretched mode because Acrobat is ignoring whether there is one monitor or two - it's simply sending the full screen output to the full Windows desktop. If the video adapter stretches the Windows desktop across two (or more) screens, then the Acrobat document appears on those screens.

What confuses me is why Acrobat Reader version 7 DOES drive the second monitor when you're not in full-screen mode: If you have two monitors configured independently as described above, you will see the menu option Window -> Tile -> Across Monitors (I can't find this feature documented anywhere in Help or on Adobe's website). Choose this, and the Acrobat application maximizes across both monitors. This isn't true "full screen" mode, however, because all the window elements, toolbars, menus, etc. are still displayed. One would think that going to full screen would simply make all that stuff disappear and you'be left with the document in two full screens. But instead, Acrobat shrinks from two screens back to one, and the second monitor shows the Windows desktop (or whatever windows were layered underneath Acrobat on that monitor).So why does Acrobat 7 drive two independent monitors in "normal" display but not in "full screen" display? And why is the Window -> Tile -> Across Monitors option missing from version 8?And, is there a workaround? Can I get two separate instances of Acrobat running each to display full-screen on its own monitor? Is there javascript I can write that will synchronize the navigation across both instances so facing pages are always displayed correctly?

I struggle to believe that I'm the only person who is trying to build a touchscreen kiosk showing an Acrobat document across two monitors. Someone's gotta have this one licked already.

You can try the workaround suggested in this Ask an Expert post for running multiple instances:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/ask_an_expert/questions/view/3207/