Set the Opening View of a PDF in Acrobat Professional

Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional enables you to specify the opening view of a PDF document. For example, you can specify that when a user opens the document, Acrobat or Reader should display the third page at a magnification of 50%, with odd and even numbered pages displayed beside each other as in a printed book format.

Steps

  1. With the PDF document open in Acrobat, click Document Properties on the File menu.
    The Document Properties dialog box is displayed.
  2. Select Initial View tab.
    The Initial View options are displayed.
  3. To specify the panels to be displayed in the opening view, select an option from the Show drop-down list in the Document Options section. You can choose to display no panels, or any one of the Bookmarks, Pages, or Layers panels.
  4. To specify the layout of the pages in the opening view, select an option from the Page layout drop-down list. The Single Page option displays a single page, the Facing option displays the pages in a printed book format, and the Continuous option enables continuous scrolling across pages.
  5. To specify the magnification of the pages in the opening view, select an option from the Magnification drop-down list. The Fit Page option magnifies the document so that a page (or two facing pages) fills the document window. The Fit Width option magnifies the document so that the width of a page fills the document window. The Fit Visible option magnifies the document so that the width of the content on the page fills the document window, with the blank spaces around the borders of the page not displayed.
  6. To display a particular page of the document in the opening view, type the page number in the Open to text box.
  7. You can specify the behavior of the document window in the opening view by selecting the check boxes in the Window Options section. The Resize window to initial page check box resizes the document window to fit the size of the initial page only if the document window is not already maximized. The Center window on screen centers the document window on the screen. The Open in Full Screen mode check box opens the document in full screen mode. The options on the Show drop-down list enable you to display either the document title or the document file name on the title bar of the document window.
  8. You can hide the menu bar, the tool bars, and the window controls on the status bar by selecting the check boxes in the User Interface Options section.

    Note: Hiding the menu bar, tool bars, and window controls will make most of the Acrobat or Reader features unavailable to the user of the document.
  9. Click OK to close the Document Properties dialog box.
  10. Click Save on the File menu to save the changes to the document properties.
    The changes you have made to the initial view will be applied the next time the document is opened.

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