Thanks, it was indeed saved to a temp file location. But there must be something wrong with the PDF format of the file if I can not save it to my hard disk from within Adobe Acrobat DC despite the latter being able to display it for me. ... View more

OK, thanks ! But since I know the people who created the PDF is there any way I can tell them what specifically is wrong with the file so that they can correct it and issue an updated correct PDF ? I do not know what tool they used to create the PDF but there obviously must be something wrong with that tool if the PDF file can not be saved to my hard disk from within Adobe Acrobat DC. ... View more

What you are saying is that when I copy from a PDF file in Windows what is being copied is a stream of data in PDF format to the Windows clipboard. Then when I paste the clipboard data into a text editor the knowledge of PDF format and of translating form the PDF format to to the code page of my text editor is part of Windows functionality. Would this be a correct assessment of how things work ?   I am only trying to understand how PDF formatted data which shows in Acrobrat as a tilde character becomes a character which is not a tilde in the code page of my text editor. ... View more

There is text which I am seeing in a PDF document. What determines the characters I am seeing ? There must be some underlying representation which determines a character. If I see some characters and one of those characters is a tilde character I am seeing, then I naturally suppose that this character correspnds to the tilde character in the ASCII ( or maybe UTF8 where the ASCII characters form the first 256 ) character set. When I copy the character and paste it to my text editor, and the character turns out not to be the ASCII tilde character, naturally I am a bit upset and curious why that is so. I then suggest that there should be a way that I can view using Acrobat what that character is in the ASCII character set. That's all ! I do not think that is an unreasonable request considering the huge number of programmers who have, and continue to have, an interest in the ASCII character set as the text they use in their programming langauage. In fact I do not know a single programming language, although I suppose there must be some, that does not use the characters in the ASCII character set, and usually the first 128 characters in that set, as the representation of the valid characters to be used in the constructs of that programming language. I realize that Acrobat need not provide the functionality I am asking for, but still I view it as a reasonable request. I am sure many programmers copy characters from PDF documents, and many English speaking people otherwise, and that they would like to be assured that the characters they view correspond to the characters they expect in their text editors. I do realize that good text editors, like the one I usually use as a programmer, can display characters in many different character sets if necessary, including Unicode, but still the ASCII character set remains very popular since it is the set of programing languages. I am aware that ASCII is code page 1252 in my editor, but I think you know what I mean when I say the ASCII character set. ... View more

I agree with you that this is probably a problem with the PDF files themselves, rather than Acrobat, but it does seem to me that Acrobat should provide some means for the end-user to check the code point of some text to see what it actually is. In my case the text I copied from a PDF file came from a copy of a C++ Standard document in PDF format for an early version of C++ ( 2003 ), that was licensed tro me from the ANSI store so it would be difficult for me to share it and possibly illegal to do so. I do have PDF versions of other later C++ standard version documents up through the latest proposed C++20 standard, many not licensed but freely available, and I am seeing corrections in some later version of example code where the code points for characters appearing as tilde and circumflex when copied are correctly within the 0-127 7-bit ASCII range. So it is very possible that earlier C++ standard documents were corrected when producing later ones. ... View more

Well is is certainly not generating the correct ASCII character for the tilde. I also noticed that it is also not generating the right ASCII character for the circumflex ( ^ ) character. I guess copying from a PDF document and pasting into a text editor is simply not reliable in Acrobat. Saying it is the PDF document, where I am definitely seeing a tilde or a circumflex, seems a bit of a copout on Acrobat's part when there is no reliable way of determing what Acrobat is doing when I copy text as far as generating the characters to copy. ... View more

Is there a way to view the character's actual hexadecimal code in Acrobat ? I do not see this functionality when I view the PDF. ... View more

What has saving the state of the bookmarks to do with saving an edited document ? For that matter what has saving the document page in which I last viewed a document, so that opening the document again brings me to the document page I was last viewing ( something which Acrobat Reader currently does when I check the correct option ), have to do with saving an edited document ? But you are right. Enough !  Trying to reason with those who want to support the current functionality of any piece of software, no matter how illogical it is, simply because "that's how it works" is futile. I will post a suggestion using the proper channels and hopefully some programmer at Adobe, who is responsible for how the Acrobat Reader works, will see it and improve the functionality. ... View more

Thanks, I will do that. ... View more

Why would viewing/expanding/contracting/opening a bookmark ever mean that the document was edited ? The stupidity of tying the editing of a file to opening bookmarks, or wanting to save the current state of the expanded/contracted bookmark tree, is beyond a reasonable human brain to comprehend. How many times can I say in this thread that saving/restoring the current state of the bookmarks should be entirely independent of anything else one does when viewing a document. How hard can it really be to implement this basic behavior since it is already being done when you "edit" a document ? ... View more

It is a solution, but a very poor one. Since the code is there to save the state of the bookmarks correctly Adobe Acrobat Reader should, at the very least, provide an option to do so automatically, whether someone "edits" the corresponding document or not. There is no logical correlation between the state of the bookmarks being saved and the "editing" of a document; therefore there should be no programmatic correlation between these two different functionalities. Clearly I might wish to save the state of the bookmarks of a document whether I "edit" the document or not. ... View more

Why should a user have to do some artificial thing just to get Adobe Acrobat Reader to restore the bookmarks correctly ? ... View more

This is Adobe Acrobat Reader. I am viewing documents, not editing them. ... View more

If I have a document open with the bookmarks navigation pane showing, I will often have the bookmarks expanded to show the document page which I am viewing. I may have other bookmarks expanded or contracted to see the various bookmark chapters and topics. If I then close the document, when I reopen it I want to see the expanded and contracted bookmarks showing in the same way as when I last had opened the document. Furthermore I want to see the bookmark highlighted which corresponds to the page of the document I was last viewing and which is showing again when I have reopened the document. Why is this important ? Bookmarks are a way of seeing the structure of a document and finding things in that document based on its structure. It is equivalent, in its way, of opening a chapter of a book dealing with some topic of interest in that book without having to search every page of that book to find what one is looking for. Some PDF documents have a huge number of documents and topics. Expanding every chapter and topic of a document every time that documented is opened actually makes it much harder to find information than just expanding/contracting what the user wants to see, Surely the Adobe Acrobat Reader can expand/contract what was expanded and contracted when the end-user last viewed that document when he close it. This would make it much easier for the end-user to get back to viewing the document as he did before. The current functionality of expanded every chapter/topic by rote is detrimental to achieving that for the end-user. ... View more

Thanks ! I did as you suggested and the result is: 1) The same zoom level is restored. 2) The same page is restored.. 3) The same navigation panes are restored. 4) The same bookmarks are NOT restored but get completely expanded once again. 5) The same Show/Hide settings are restored once I also checked the option "Remember current state of Tools pane".. This is much better. But why Adobe reader must completely expand all bookmarks each and every time I do not understand. In a document with a great number of bookmarks this is poor behavior. I could not find a setting to correct this. Does one exist ? ... View more

Thanks ! That did work for a particular document that has been viewed previously. Still it is a shame that Adobe Reader does not automatically set my zoom level the way i want it for any document when I open it. How hard can that really be ? Eddie Diener ... View more

Clearly the end-user should be able to override the initial view of whomever creates the PDF with his own settings when it comes to setting the zoom level of the document. If I set the zoom level to 100%, why should not my preference, as the viewer of the PDF, be used to override the content provider when the document is first displayed ? Why should I have to view the document at some predefined zoom level and then be forced to manually change it after each and every time I first open the document rather than Adobe Reader automatically doing it for me. It is just a waste of my time that Adobe Reader will not automatically set the zoom level to my preferred percent when I open the document. I do not care if it has worked the way it currently works since the dawn of man in prehistoric times, much less since some previous Adobe Reader release which proves nothing. It is just plain wrong, plain stupid, and should be fixed. Eddie Diener ... View more