how can i hide navigation panel buttons

Several ways to achieve this are posted above, Ron.

The post at:

PDL - 2:45pm May 8, 08 PST

Worked great for me - exactly what I needed. Thanks!

Regarding the comment:

"...why not just set the PDF to open in fullscreen mode?"

In my case, it is a document management system and the files are retrieved one at a time from an Oracle db for some manual indexing - index fields to the left and the document to the right, with ability to navigate from one doc to the next/previous. Opening it in full screen doesn't work for users in this scenario b/c they'd have to constantly switch between windows for thousands of documents. The documents are also disassociated from the additional fields this way. Just wanted to point at a scenario where the desired "more real estate with embedded pdf" is really necessary. The ability to hide the menus and offer the most space for document viewing within the browser is definitely important.

Thanks again - Ron

> Actually, none of the solutions above work.

They do work, actually. Would you like a Captivate video? Whatever you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

Actually, none of the solutions above work. The Panel still keeps showing up every single time the Reader is launched.

*shrug* where I'm from, this forced feature is called a bug.

> LA LA LA LA LA, NOT LISTENING, I CANT HEAR YOU!

Seems you should be the one saying that since perfectly workable solutions to all your complaints are in the message directly above your hissy-fit post.

"I want you to redesign your application to suit ME ONLY, and ignore the millions of satisfied users! ME ME ME!"

Yeah, great business strategy. How much is your company worth compared to Adobe? So who has the better business sense, I wonder?

> The navigation panel is also an information panel for letting you know when a PDF contains certain features (security, layers, etc.). That's why we don't want you being able to permanently hide it.

"We know what's best for you, we don't care what you want. It's our way or the highway. LA LA LA LA LA, NOT LISTENING, I CANT HEAR YOU!"

Not a nice way to treat the customer. But I guess that's the way large corporations can be.

Switching to Foxit.

> Unfortunately this workaround has absolutely no bearing when you open the PDF files in the web browser. All of the Navigation panel buttons come back in their full glory.

Well then you can just use the PDF Open Parameters.

Examples:

http://www.example.com/Test.pdf#toolbar=0&navpanes=0&scrollbar=0

<embed src="Test.pdf#toolbar=0&navpanes=0&scrollbar=0">

Of course if you're so concerned about screen space, the menus and toolbars take up much more space than the (rather useful) navigation pane, so why not just set the PDF to open in fullscreen mode? Maximum screen space achieved.

Wanna go all out and have it permanently disabled on your system? Edit the .pdf file association in your registry to launch

Acrobat.exe /A "navpanes=0" %1

instead of

Acrobat.exe %1

And your navigation panes will be off for all your PDFs.

Mac OS X you say? Create an alias with the same name as the Acrobat launcher that launches it with -A"navpanes=0" since aliases are processed before searching the path on OS X. Same deal for AcroRead on *ix, since we all know Mac OS X is just BSD with a skin anyways.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf

Bah!

Unfortunately this workaround has absolutely no bearing when you open the PDF files in the web browser. All of the Navigation panel buttons come back in their full glory.
:(

Sabian

SOLUTION for hiding navigation panel in Adobe:
(I wrote the title out explicitly for google indexing purposes and so others do not have to suffer like I have and don't get irrelevant and stupid responses like Leonard Rosenthol's when they try to google the answer to this frustrating problem - he would make a great Microsoft employee, as would be the designers of this particular feature of Adobe Professional.)

1. When the navigation panel is opened, left-click and drag each individual icon to the right so that you pull it off the navigation panel and they each become bigger floating pop-up windows.

2. Now continue doing this for all icons until the navigation panel is entirely gray.

3. Click on the "X" in the upper right hand side until you close all those pop-up windows.

4. Right click on the navigation panel gray area and click "hide".

5. Now that navigation panel will be gone whenever you open up Adobe.

This was very frustrating, but I finally fixed it after much tinkering. I must say that Leonard Rosenthol's response was stupid, irrelevant and it angered me greatly. >:(
Hope this helps!

- Kev

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