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harleygnuya
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February 12, 2025
Question

Set PDF file so that is opens without showing the bookmarks panel.

  • February 12, 2025
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I'm using Acrobat Pro 2024.005.20399.

 

Despite having set Document Properties > Initial View > Navigation Tab to "Page Only", my PDFs are still showing the bookmarks panel when they open.  I want them to open with the Bookmarks Panel hidden. 

 

Theses PDFs consist of a single page and have no bookmarks in them.

 

To make them come up without the Bookmarks Panel showing, I've had to add an Action to the page:

Select Trigger = "Page Open"

Select Action = "Execute a menu item"

And the menu item I've selected is "Acrobat Menu>View>Show/Hide>Side panels>Bookmarks

 

When I do these things, the pdfs finally come up without the Bookmarks Panel showing.

 

So, I can get it to work, but I thought that merely setting the Navigation Tab to "Page Only" would be sufficient to work on its own.

 

What's going on?  Am I misunderstanding something?

 

I'm attaching screen shots of my document and page settings.

2 replies

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 12, 2025

It should be enough, yes. Where (in which application and OS) did you test it when it showed up incorrectly?

harleygnuya
Known Participant
February 12, 2025

Acrobat Pro 2024.005.20399

Windows 10 Pro 64 bit Build 19045.4291

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 12, 2025

Can you share a sample file?

harleygnuya
Known Participant
February 12, 2025

Oops!  I attached the wrong page properties screenshot.  Here's the right one.