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Gloops2
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August 24, 2020
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Reading position

  • August 24, 2020
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Well, I have got a page interface in French, but the articles I saw in the forum were in English. I presume it is best I post in English ?

 

Hello everybody, I read a book of about 500 pages and 20 chapters, and some periods of time happen during which I have to interrupt my reading. After that, I do not remember where I was in the book. Is the solution to note down the page number on a sheet of paper ? But, grasp, shall I remember where I put that paper ?

 

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Correct answer try67

You can post in French if you'd like. There's a Translate command here that works pretty well, for the most part, and there are several French-speaking experts here as well.

 

There are two solutions to this issue (beside writing it down on a piece of paper...):

- Use one of the commenting tools to make a comment on the page you arrived to. Then when you open the file the next time open the Comment panel and click the item in the Comments List to jump to that page.

- Go to Edit (or the Acrobat Reader menu if you're on a Mac) - Preferences - Documents and tick the "Restore last view settings when reopening documents" box. This will cause the application to remember what was the last page you viewed when you closed the file and open it to that location the next time you view it.

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try67
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try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
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August 25, 2020

You can post in French if you'd like. There's a Translate command here that works pretty well, for the most part, and there are several French-speaking experts here as well.

 

There are two solutions to this issue (beside writing it down on a piece of paper...):

- Use one of the commenting tools to make a comment on the page you arrived to. Then when you open the file the next time open the Comment panel and click the item in the Comments List to jump to that page.

- Go to Edit (or the Acrobat Reader menu if you're on a Mac) - Preferences - Documents and tick the "Restore last view settings when reopening documents" box. This will cause the application to remember what was the last page you viewed when you closed the file and open it to that location the next time you view it.

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Gloops2Author
Inspiring
August 25, 2020

Hello,

Well, the comments are an idea that can be interesting, I shall try and find time to have a look.

The last view settings was the answer I was looking for.

While I asked the question I checked that, and thought it was managing the position and size of the window. So when reading the answer I just had to close the document and reopen it, to see that the problem was solved, thank you.

 

Do you have an idea of how ot increase the font size in that dialog box ?

Twenty years ago I should have read that with no problem, but now I need the lens. And there is another example of this : the current page number is displayed, but about ten times too little.

Anyway this is a recurrent problem in Windows 10, the solutions are not focused where we need them. So when applications take care of this, it is precious.

 

try67
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try67Community Expert
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August 25, 2020

Check the Accessibility options of Windows. You should be able to increase the system font size used in dialogs.

Reader also has some Accessibility options (under Preferences - Accessibility), with some nice features... Give it a try!

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