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Sanchan
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March 12, 2019
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How to show bookmarks AND thumbnails simultaneously

  • March 12, 2019
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Dear Adobe Team, dear colleagues

I am wondering if it works to use the thumbnails pane next to the bookmarks pane in Adobe Professional DC just as it is possible in PDF XChange.

Unfortunately, I could not find anything with this regard within this forum. Does anyone have any inputs?

Many thanks for your well-appreciated support

Sandro

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Correct answer Bernd Alheit

Not possible in Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat.

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Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
Legend
February 19, 2024

@Sanchan and others...

Updating the information about this functionality.

 

In the "Classic" interface, it IS possible to have the Pages/Thumbnails panel open on the left and the Comments panel open on the right.

 

But in the new "Modern" interface, Adobe ganged both panels on the left and only one can be open at a time.

 

 

Solution:

 

The new interface is not ready to be used because of insane shortcomings like this one.

 

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Participant
February 19, 2024

Has it always been that way? I upgraded my Acrobat Pro to 2023.008.20423 and it looks completely different now. I could've sworn that I could always see the page thumbnails on the left and the comments on the right? Am I crazy? And why did  they change that if so? 

 

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 19, 2024

This is a other issue.

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 12, 2019

While not possible in a single window, you can open the file twice (open it once and then go to Window - New Window to open another copy of it), and have one version show the Bookmarks panel and the other the Pages panel. You can then tile the window and arrange them in such a way that both panes are visible one next to each other. Of course, this is only useful for visual reference. You will only be able to use one of them to change the actual active document, not both.

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Bernd AlheitCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
March 12, 2019

Not possible in Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat.

Sanchan
SanchanAuthor
Participant
March 12, 2019

That is rather unfortunate .

Thanks for the reply. I let it open in case somebody still has a workaround

Dov Isaacs
Legend
March 12, 2019

On behalf of Adobe, there is no workaround using either Adobe Reader or Acrobat. You can either display the Bookmarks pane or the Thumbnails pane. There are no options for displaying both with this software.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)