Version of 5ER PDF that doesn't mess with view settings?

[mkorth]

I've been looking through my wife's copy of the 5ER PDF, and there's one thing that's driving me absolutely batty.

I have a 17" monitor. If Reader is set to "fit page", the print in the PDF is *painfully* small--I can't read it without major eyestrain. Any smaller, and it'd fall back on using Greek letters. So, I set Reader to "fit width" (which is my default setting). That was much better.

The problem is that whenever I use the bookmarks to jump around in the PDF (that is, a *lot*), the view is changed back to... (wait for it) "fit page", which means that I have to set the view back to the way I want it to be able to read the page.

Is it possible to get a copy of the 5ER PDF that *doesn't* mess with the view settings?

(Or, alternatively, if anyone knows how to force Reader to use the user's settings instead of the PDF's, please point me in the right direction...)

Thanks.
--M

[ghost-angel]

In the Preferences under Page Dispaly unclick the option "Open windows maximized, unless document specifies otherwise."

Try that and see if it works for you.

[mkorth]

In the Preferences under Page Dispaly unclick the option "Open windows maximized, unless document specifies otherwise."

Try that and see if it works for you.

What version of Reader are you using? I can't find that anywhere in the Preferences.

[gojira]

I don't see an option to do what you want. I think it's an Acrobat thing, not a DOJ thing.

On the menu bar at the top, I have a button labeled "fit width" right next to the "fit page" one. It gets you pretty close to 100% (90% on my smaller screen). This might speed things up for ya, at least.

[mkorth]

I don't see an option to do what you want. I think it's an Acrobat thing, not a DOJ thing.

On the menu bar at the top, I have a button labeled "fit width" right next to the "fit page" one. It gets you pretty close to 100% (90% on my smaller screen). This might speed things up for ya, at least.

That's entirely possible, which is why I submitted a request to Adobe for a feature for Reader called "Lock view settings".

And I have that toolbar button as well. It's just annoying that the software has evidently decided that I don't really want to use my view settings, I want to use the its view settings. If it's possible for DOJ to strip that sort of behavior out of the PDFs it creates (and playing around with some PDFs on Adobe's website suggests that it is), I'd like to see it happen.

[Steve Long]

AFAIK that's not something we can control, sorry. I think it's an Acrobat thing. If I'm wrong we'll see what we can do once we're past the busy season.

[ghost-angel]

What version of Reader are you using? I can't find that anywhere in the Preferences.
The latest.. whatever that is. I just had Adobe update it on Friday... Though I am using the Mac version but I dnt see there's a reason there'd be a difference like that.

[mkorth]

AFAIK that's not something we can control, sorry. I think it's an Acrobat thing. If I'm wrong we'll see what we can do once we're past the busy season.

I think it is possible to do it, Steve--I've viewed PDFs on Adobe's own website that did not have that behavior.

But I do understand that you guys have got a lot of stuff coming up, so I'm most certainly not expecting instant action on this...