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Completely, fully disable 100% of any and all auto window resizing / document rezooming functions

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
December 4, 2019
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I seek a comprehensive list of all Acrobat functions that result in automatically resizing the window, or automatically adjusting the zoom level, of a newly opened document. I do not want window size or initial zoom level to ever change, except when I make manual adjustments. The automatic functions are a major hindrance and time-waster.

To the extent some of these functions might be settable in multiple different locations so that I have to go make sure the setting is set properly in each of the separate locations, I would also appreciate a listing of such duplicative interface toggles.

Cheers!

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Ad oh Bee is Terrible

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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, listen to your community and users, and PLEASE fix this massive, massive, glitch/error/failure of the program. This has been an issue for way longer than is reasonable, and those of us that use Acrobat all day, every single day, we really want this fixed. It's incredibly frustrating, time consuming, and just plain ridiculous that after YEARS of complaints, Adobe has yet to fix this major error in the program. At this point it seems like you really just dislike your userbase and want us upset.

All you need to do is a simple internet search, and you will find 10's of thousands of pages requesting how to fix this bug. Literally, 10's of thousands.

PLEASE LISTEN AND FIX!!!

Stop leaving this program error in place, and provide your users with a properly functioning program that doesn't error and resize everything & move the files onto the wrong screen. We've spent our time to size and setup the viewing window the way WE WANT IT TO BE.

It doesn't seem like this program bug would be difficult to correct, add a simple option:

Do not resize Adobe Acrobat when opening files

This would immediately fix the program glitch.

We're using the program and want this long time bug fixed. Please, correct this issue.

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d_3940

Participant

Agree. Nothing has changed since the start of this thread in 2019. The issue still persists and is an incredibly annoying one for those of us that work in Adobe Acrobat in a minimised window, set to the size and position we want on the Desktop.

I work with a minimised window in all apps as I have other items arranged next to and around them for easy access. It is not workable for me to use Acrobat in full screen. There is no other app that I use, including Windows, that changes position and size of the Window when I open something, just Acrobat.

Not every time, but may half or a third of the time, when I download a pdf and open it, the Adobe window will change size and move position on the screen to however it was when the sender last opened it, and I will need to spend time adjusting window size and position back to where it was. This happens all day, every day and gets very annoying.

There must be a setting that causes this, whether it is one that is visible to users or not. The obvious fix would be to provide a means to turn that off.

Adobe, over to you.

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stylish_Zest1786

Participating Frequently

This stupid problem has just cropped up for me at work, so I've HAD to do something about it and thought I'd share since Adobe seems to not care about what people want. Here's what I came up with.

Download AutoHotKey V2 from https://www.autohotkey.com/v2/ (you can use the portable version if you're on a work PC, download the zip and extract)

Create a new .txt file in the same folder you extracted AHK to and name it whatever you like eg AcrobatPosition.ahk << Note .ahk extension.

Paste the code below into the file, adjust dX, dY etc to the size and position you want and save.

You can use the WindowSpy.ahk to find your preferred size etc, drag it on to AutoHotkey64.exe.

Drag your new .akh onto AutoHotkey64.exe (or set up .ahk to open with AutoHotkey64.exe)

Enjoy the fact that you now have control over the damn acrobat window!

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0

SetTimer(CheckAndFixAcrobatWindow, 200) ; Check every 200ms (fine-grained but efficient)

dX := 930
dY := 0
dWidth := 1000
dHeight := 1160
SWP_NOZORDER := 0x0004
SWP_NOACTIVATE := 0x0010
lastHwnd := 0 ; stores the previously active window handle

CheckAndFixAcrobatWindow() {
global dX, dY, dWidth, dHeight, SWP_NOZORDER, SWP_NOACTIVATE, lastHwnd

hwnd := WinActive("A")
if !hwnd || !WinExist("ahk_id " hwnd)
return

; If not the same as last active window, update
if (hwnd != lastHwnd) {
lastHwnd := hwnd

if WinGetClass(hwnd) = "AcrobatSDIWindow" {
WinGetPos(&x, &y, &w, &h, hwnd)

if (x != dX || y != dY || w != dWidth || h != dHeight) {
; Uncomment for debug:
; ToolTip "Moving Acrobat window once"
DllCall("SetWindowPos", "ptr", hwnd, "ptr", 0, "int", dX, "int", dY,
"int", dWidth, "int", dHeight, "uint", SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE)
}
}
}
}

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Vince19872008c4fr

Participating Frequently

Good idea and thank you for the tip, but not suitable for people who can't run AHK on their work computer. It should be a setting within Acrobat so everyone can enjoy!

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Vince19872008c4fr

Participating Frequently

You can use the standalone version of AHK. No install needed!

Read my post again 😉

Agreed that it should just be a setting in Acrobat!

Yes it runs in the background and resizes the window evey time it's changed.

This does however mean that you can't change it either by dragging. You'll have to change the .ahk file to resize

No, I can't. Security measures don't allow it. Can't blame them, I'll blame Adobe instead 🙂

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d_3940

Participant

For my job I need to download and print about 20-30 pdfs a day and each time I open one, the window size changes or moves to match how the sender set it up. I am constantly adjusting the window size and position as a result. I have looked and looked, and cannot find any setting to stop this and keep my preferred window size and position. Finally found this thread and it appears to be something users have been reqesting for years and remains ignored by Adobe. Not good enough.

Amal.

Community Manager

Hi there

Hope you are doing well, and thanks for reaching out. We are sorry for the trouble you went through while opening the PDF files.

As described, the window size changes, each time you open different PDF files, is it the size of the document or the size of the Acrobat App window itself. Please share a small video recording of the steps you are taking and the issue as it occurs for more clarity.

In the meantinme, try the steps below and see if that helps:

Open the PDF > Document Properties (Ctrl,Cmd+D) > Initial View > Window Options > Uncheck 'Resize Window to initial page' > Click OK

Also, go to Preferences (Ctrl,Cmd+K) > Page Display > Under, default layout and zoom, set page layout to 'Automatic' and zoom to 'Fit Page' > Click Ok and reboot the device once.

Let us know how it goes.

[Edited Response]

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MF777

Participant

Hello Amal,

It's nice to see an answer from an Adobe employee.

However, I don't think you've understood the problem, as the solution you propose is close to the default setting on Acrobat.

What we need is for Acrobat NOT to change window SIZE and LOCATION.

It is not a question of ZOOMING.

I am forced to use Acrobat PRO for some things, but for long sessions of opening PDFs, I switch to another reader, as Acrobat simply doesn't cut it.

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Precious_Phoenix3817

Participant

Seems we need another BUMP!

I've been dealing with this the last year or so at work when I started handling bill pay for my office. Very frustrating. Blows my mind reading all these threads that have been open for years complaining about this problem and nothing has been done.

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Amanda38127575wruk

Participant

Here's another bump from 2025! I understand that this is expected behavior when a PDF is created / saved using the "Resize window to initial page" option, but it is INFURIATING to have PDFs from different sources move and resize my Acrobat windows, especially when using multple monitors. There should be a global setting to open PDFs IN THE SAME PLACE you already have your window positioned. We have the option to choose the zoom and scroll settings, WHY NOT WINDOW POSITION?

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GoldenCorey

Participant

You are doing the Lord's work, sir! This thread is like a support group for people who are tired with the idiocy of the world. There is not even a single reason why the creator of a pdf should be able to choose the location and dimensions of the window in which that pdf displays on the viewer's computer. I often think: do these morons ever even try to use the product that they create to do any real work? Don't even get me started on Microsoft Outlook...

The fact that this problem has persisted for years is completely unforgivable. Thank goodness we can do most of what we want to pdfs natively on a Mac with their amazing Preview app. I would love to support a better company in this space, though. I wonder if Affinity would be interested in making a pdf reader/viewer? Their Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher are already good replacements for other Adobe apps.

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the_zedman

Participant

Why has this not been addressed yet?

Stop telling/forcing me how to work.

Just imagine the dekstop nightware if all vendors adopted your approach for application/window management.

Come on this is basic.

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piotr_4227

Participant

As Adobe seems not to care, I have prepared a script in autoIt (with help of my friend perplexity.ai) that opens a PDF file and than resizes the window to a specified size. You can modyfy the position and size to your preferences, compile the script to EXE file and set it as a default PDF opening application. You can even extract a prefered icon from any application (e.g. using 7zip) and use it during the script compilation. The PDF icon will look as you want.

; Define the desired width and height for the Acrobat Reader window
Global $xPosition = 0
Global $yPosition = 0
Global $width = 800  ; Desired width
Global $height = 600 ; Desired height

; Get the PDF file path from command line arguments
Local $pdfFilePath = $CmdLine[1]

; Define the path to Adobe Acrobat Reader executable
Local $acrobatPath = "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe"

; Run Adobe Acrobat Reader with the specified PDF file
Run('"' & $acrobatPath & '" "' & $pdfFilePath & '"')

; Wait for the Acrobat Reader window to become active
Local $title = "[CLASS:AcrobatSDIWindow]"
WinWaitActive($title)

; Resize the Acrobat Reader window
WinMove($title, "", $xPosition, $yPosition, $width, $height)
Sleep(100)
WinMove($title, "", $xPosition, $yPosition, $width, $height)
Sleep(100)
WinMove($title, "", $xPosition, $yPosition, $width, $height)

In case of any problems with above I recommend the prerplexity.ai. It will explain everything.

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sapers.2

Participating Frequently

Yes, this is infuriating when pdf move and resize acrobat reader window.

I bet it just too complicated for adobe devs to add this option.

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Caleb33837030v5yq

Participating Frequently

Bump

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Robin3721231676cy

Participant

Over for years on, and this is still an issue. 🙎

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sdf284457735zjt

Participant

After my battles with adobe regarding CS6 some time ago, I concluded that these adobe dimwits have too much brass and hence the frustrations of users such as in this thread are futile and only represent the power that adobe has unjustly gained by the general consensus of every crap given by adobe to its users.

Give yourselves a break. Change the software you are using. I for one have been waiting for the bugs in InDesign to be corrected, which have existed since the CS2 version, and even though it's been nearly 20 years the same crap has been dragging on for so long expanded with unnecessary stuff and stuff that can be used for marketing efforts. After a while I decided that I don't give a crap about adobe, I learned JS and with the help of scripts I do most of what I need and I have no intention of NEVER paying adobe even a cent again.

Adobe gets a heap of laughs out of this forum and that's it, probably more than a few adobe dimwits spend long hours laughing themselves to tears reading posts like this one 🙂

BUMP...
Bump?
BUMP!

Cheers

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ST_Jim

Participant

BUMP! Adobe please fix this, there is not one Adobe user that is ok with the current design functionality allowing a documents window options to reposition and resize the window on another users computer. ADD A DISABLE FUNCTION FOR THIS ALREADY!!!!!!

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