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Enabling Previous View/Next View buttons by default

Skarab
Registered: Apr 22 2009
Posts: 3
Answered

I work for a small company that creates legal exhibits as well as publishing briefs and other text docs for legal clients. We are transitioning to Reader 9 thought because of budget considerations we are still creating in Acrobat 8.

Usually the briefs (or any text doc) will have hyperlinks to other pages in the document and we want the user to have the "Previous View" and "Next View" buttons (which were enabled by default in R7) available. For some idiotic reason Adobe defaults them to not available in R8 and R9.

We distribute a short tutorial on navigating around the Reader interface but instructing the user on enabling these two buttons is something we'd rather not have to do.

We also distribute a Reader installer (these documents are provided on cd's) that I *think* we can customize the installer to show these two buttons, but if the user has a recent version of Reader, or opts to download from Adobe, we have no control over even this.

Is there a way to enable these two buttons via a document-level javascript? We've been all over the documentation and the web and haven't yet found a solution.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Windows
jowatkiss
Registered: Feb 17 2009
Posts: 12
Looks like the answer is no? I've too have scoured the javascript details and don't see how it can be done at document level. I agree that its frustrating having to teach the viewer how to use Reader!
rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
here's a workaround: provide two bookmarks (named "previous view" and "next view"); set the action of each bookmark to activate the appropriate menu item. Bookmarks panel should be dispayed by default -- a setting on initial view tab under document properties.
jowatkiss
Registered: Feb 17 2009
Posts: 12
Brilliant - a simple solution that does the job.
Thanks!