How can I turn off permanently the bookmarks panel in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2021

[default65jmig9yzaom]

How can I turn off permanently the bookmarks panel in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2021?

I cannot find any solution that work for this newest version on google.

Thank you for your help.

[Paolo38245757f3qd]

Indeed. Disabling New Acrobat is the only option that has worked for me. Took me one week to figure that out. Thanks!

[gusmuh]

I added an 'Idea'/feature request for this, if y'all would like to upvote it. Maybe that will work to have this remedied?

Turn off the bookmark tab permanently - Adobe Community - 14932954

[jane-e]

I added an 'Idea'/feature request for this

By @gusmuh

The Acrobat developers use another site called UserVoice for Ideas and Bugs. Can you post there and put the link back in this thread so it can be upvoted?

https://acrobat.uservoice.com/

Jane

[gusmuh]

Thanks, @jane-e . There was a post on uservoice that I commented on to help encourage this.

All - If you're willing to sign up and vote there, that may help this happen.

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[jane-e]

@gusmuh 

I voted. There are now 7 upvotes.

Jane

[Michael32005506vsc6]

Agree 100% that this needs an option to turn off at the user level. So annoying.

[sun2sirius]

Sorry, none of the "correct answers" are correct. The way it works is that I open a document that has no bookmakrs, but the empty bookmarks window pops up and takes 1/3 of my screen. I need to click on it to close for every document I open. What a shame!

[SMU67]

Bookmarks only open if they are stored in the document. To get rid of them, right click the file in your file browser > Open with > Google Chrome. In Chrome, click 'print' and then 'Save as PDF'. This saves it as a plain PDF without bookmarks.

[try67]

That is a very convoluted way to get rid of bookmarks if you have Acrobat. Just open the Bookmarks panel, select all, click Delete.

[VladNJ]

@SMU67 printing a document without bookmarks, is unessary duplication.  

Just because a document has bookmarks, it does not mean I want to see them when a document is being opened. It should be user's decision and there should be an on/off switch....
This product is missing this functionality and the Product owner needs to review it.

[Tom31960282iyhz]

I had originally asked about bookmarks in AutoCAD, a friend helped me with the plotting config. by using ADOBE PDF printer settings, the bookmarks and many notes driven by Fonts are left off. 

I had been using the AutoCAD settings thinking that they were better and clearer (they are) but killing off unessary info cleans up the plot and makes life easier for everybody.

[yuriy_1357]

I found a solution that worked for me on the latest MacOS. 

Go to View in the top menu bar and click "Disable new Acrobat Reader".

It will revert to an older UI design, which honestly I prefer and it wont open the bookmarks any longer

[yuriy_1357]

Actually, disregard my last message. It is not 100% accurate. Adding more info

It still does open bookmarks, but since it's about 60% smaller than in the new UI I didn't even notice. Also, it's on the left side of the new UI. Still highly recommend this as it doesn't cover the document if the window size is smaller like it does on the new UI 

[yogonell]

None of the other suggestions worked until I followed your advice to Disable new Acrobat Reader - not just Mac, but Windows too.

Thanks.

[NikolayAtanasov]

This is still an issue in 2025. Adobe simply sucks.

[Ranametalera]

I found the real solution to this... INSTALLED SUMATRAPDF!