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Way to open a PDF_File in full screen mode at once?

TryHarder
Registered: Jun 2 2008
Posts: 15

Hello all,
is there a possibility to avoid interaction by the user to open a document-file not in "fullscreen mode".
I mean, when you create a PDF-File, you can set in the document-settings, - to open in "fullscreen mode",
but this can be quite "useless", because the user has the opportunity to select "normal mode" while the document is opened.
How can this be done?
Thanks you in advance for helping out,

Martin

gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Full screen will only work outside of a browser.

If you set the property for the initial view to "Full Screen" the PDF will open full screen, but the use can use "Escape" to get out of this mode.

You can use JavaScirpt to disable the "Escape exit" but you might also change the user's preference and this feature is also a security restricted action. You will also need to deal with providing a close method to exit the PDF.

You will find more information in the Acrobat JS API Reference.

George Kaiser