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Setting a default initial view

scooter262
Registered: Jun 20 2007
Posts: 2

How can I create a default initial view with my own properties (magnification, layout, etc.), so that whenever I create a PDF, the initial view is the one I set up?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
If you want to create the initial view for your own viewing preferences, you can set your defualt view for all files that use Defualt as the Initial View in the Page Display Preferences.

If you want the initial view set for all users who view your PDFs, you have two options. You can run a Batch Sequence on a folder of PDF files using custom Initial View settings.

I haven't tried this for some time, but I believe your second option is to add a PDFMark script. You'll need to get a copy of the PDFMark Specification that shipped with older versions of Acrobat, create a Prologue.ps file and set your Acrobat Distiller Job Options to use the prologue file when distilling PostScript to convert to PDF.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.