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Disable "Bookmarks" Side Panel whenever opening a PDF

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
March 31, 2024
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I would like the "Bookmarks" panel to NOT open when I first open an Adobe PDF. How do I accomplish this?

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Correct answer afrazminhas

Right click on right bar where you see bookmark with other icons and select “UNPIN BOOKMARK”, and close bookmark pane manually. it wont open bydefault again when you open pdf. Problem solved.

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Afraz

Nx8243

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The “Correct Answer” isn’t correct! This feature is so annoying. The damn bookmark window takes up a 1/3 of my screen every freaking time! This needs turned off!

sefgvdrgrg

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The new “solution” is not working. Right clicking anywhere in the screen does not cause anything to happen. This whole story is showing me, that Adobe is giving zero f*cks about their customers, because absolutely nobody was ever asking for bookmarks nor is anyone using it. This is so ridiculous that I deleted Adobe and use PDF-Xchange, and can recommend it to everyone. It so easy to set up with all your presets, and once you close the app, it will always open again with exactly the same settings - that’s all we were asking for.

rdumon1414

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Click “Menu” at the top left corner, go down, “Disable New Acrobat Reader”.

afrazminhasCorrect answer

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Right click on right bar where you see bookmark with other icons and select “UNPIN BOOKMARK”, and close bookmark pane manually. it wont open bydefault again when you open pdf. Problem solved.

Thanks

Afraz

Sam_11

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This issue is completely absurd, it shrinks the pdf so small and I have to manually close the bookmarks every time now. Adobe needs to fix this.

afrazminhas

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I posted fix 10 days ago, Check if that works for you.

rdumon1414

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And it still isn’t correct.

AUniqueUsername

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This is absolutely obnoxious, constant updates and they can’t fix this? My fix will be a different application...

Da_Real_Madao

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Can’t even thumb down the “Correct Answer” since it doesn’t help at all!

chloe.g

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Adjusting default view settings only has an effect on the “All tools” pane. It has no effect on the Bookmark pane, which always opens if a document has bookmarks. But I don’t care if a document has bookmarks. I DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM! You can’t even just shrink it down because it doesn’t even store the splitter distance. It also doesn’t make sense to store the bookmark pane setting in the document itself. A lot of academic literature contains a comprehensive bookmark list, but we can’t be opening and saving every document. That method doesn’t even work by the way, but even if it did, it wouldn’t be considered a solution.

When someone answers my question with "How long is a piece of string?", I throw a null reference exception.

matqwertygl

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This is beyond a joke, I must open over 100 PDF documents a day, if not three times and every time I close the bookmark. ADOBE, we pay for this software fix the f@£$$£ ISSUE!

sefgvdrgrg

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ADOBE! REACT NOW !!!

This issue has been reported repeatedly and is wasting your user’s a lot of time. How can this easy fix take so long?

I wont wait any longer and use/recommend alternatives to Adobe. This is ridiculous.