document resizes my window and breaks split screen

Question

For work I need to open hundreds of PDFs and record data from them into Excel on my Mac. I've been doing this easily by arranging Adobe Reader and Excel in a horizontally split screen, with the PDFs set at page width zoom (about 130%) so I can read them easily as I scroll down. However...

I have a new set of PDF documents that seem to have some sort of override so that they always open to display the full page instead of what fits in my window. This breaks my split screen, undoes my zoom settings, and forces me to reset everything every time. From reading similar posts and tweaking settings I've managed to get these docs to automatically open at 130% zoom, but it still changes the window size and breaks my split screen settings every time.

How can I force newly opened documents to respect that I set my window at the current size for a reason?

AkanchhaS8194121 · Answer

Hi @RK31088492gi9d

Hope you are doing well. Sorry for the delay in response.

As much as we understood from the description above, it looks like a particular file view issue. If you set the display particularly for this file, then it would affect the other files too or Vice-versa.

Try changing the view settings from preferences and see if that helps:

Open Acrobat>Edit>Preferences>Page Display> Default layout and Zoom

Or Acrobat>hamburger icon>Preferences> Page Display> Default layout and Zoom

The document would also have its default page layout; if you have permission, you can change it.

Open file>Ctrl+d>Document Properties>Initial View

Thanks,

Akanchha

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