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2011-10-05 20:44:31
KWillette
Registered: Oct 5 2011
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I recently installed Adobe X on Windows 7. After using Adobe 9 to create reference portfolios I received tremendous feedback from users who really liked the preview pane allowing all them to view the document and search its content without opening it in a separate window.
 
Now Adobe X seems to restrict the preview pane to a default size which doesn't allow the same features. Can I create a custom layout to modify the window size?

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2011-10-06 09:21:48
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Yes you can, but you will have to create it from scratch using Flex and the Acrobat X Portfolio SDK. It's not trivial by any means, but it is possible.
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2011-10-06 09:34:41
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KellyMcC
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Jul 11 2011
Posts: 389
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These articles by Joel Geraci should help get you started:

http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/creating-custom-pdf-portfolio-themes-for-adobe-acrobat-x

http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/ax-portfoliosdk_intro

http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/adding-themes

Kelly McCathran
Adobe Community Expert
Certified Technical Trainer+

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2011-10-27 14:45:40
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collinsmoore
Registered: Nov 18 2010
Posts: 8
Unsar points out that custom layouts can be made using Sdk but it's a mountain of work.

Why hadn't adobe released more custom layouts. They have left it for the development community to do so. But guess what? No one is.

I have been hunting for 1 year on this. It's driving me crazy. I have gone from loving adobe to hating them.
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2011-10-27 15:05:52
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Have you looked at the PDF Portfolio Gallery on this site?
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Maybe Adobe is leaving some work for the independent consultants in graphics design. Also many users still are using version 7 or below the users will be very disappointed with just seeing the upgrade screen.

George Kaiser

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2011-10-27 18:18:38
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
The examples in the Portfolio Gallery on AUC are not available for use as templates, they are finished files (you cannot extract the navigator from a PDF). We did have a Portfolio Exchange but it's not currently online.
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There are no announced plans for Adobe to issue any additional layouts or themes for Acrobat X; though the requests for more choice of content are noted George is correct - designing custom layouts is intended as something for the Flex community to do. I agree there isn't a lot of public-access material out there, but if a company wants a layout developing there are truckloads of Flex programmers out there who can do it, as the programming and design work involved is nothing compared to writing an app or a game.
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With Acrobat X Portfolio "themes", the ability to skin a layout is far simpler than it was before, and needs no programming whatsoever - just a copy of Illustrator and Flash Pro. It's only the layouts (NAV files) which require coding.
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gkaiseril wrote:
Have you looked at the PDF Portfolio Gallery on this site?
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Maybe Adobe is leaving some work for the independent consultants in graphics design. Also many users still are using version 7 or below the users will be very disappointed with just seeing the upgrade screen.
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