Disable "Bookmarks" Side Panel whenever opening a PDF

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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 Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Your preference setting will affect documents that have their settings at default.

If the PDF is set to open the bookmarks pane, it will open. As long as the document does not have password protection, you can close the panel, change the Document Properties, and save the PDF. You should you be able to set up an action for this if you deal with a lot of PDFs.

If you have control over the PDF settings in the original program, turn off the option to make bookmarks or at least, not to open the pane by default.

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Nasib36431047rban

Participant

1. open one pdf document
2. View>show/hide>Tool pane
3. click "restart" application

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VladNJ

Participating Frequently

This recommendation does not turn it off permanently, but only for that instance (might as well click on the x box)

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Tariq Dar

Legend

Hi @VladNJ,

Thank you for reaching out with your question.
Sadly, it can be turned off permanently. This panel is driven by app preference and document property.

Here is the app preference you may want to check:

Launch Acrobat
Go to Preferences> Documents. Keyboard shortcut (Cmd + K) Mac and (Ctrl+K) Wins.
Select "Restore last view settings when reopening documents"
Click "OK"
Open a PDF file.
Close the bookmarks panel.
Save and close the PDF file.
The next time you open the same document you should have the bookmarks panel closed

Let us know if you have further questions.

~Tariq