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ediener
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April 1, 2017
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Showing PDF the way I last viewed it

  • April 1, 2017
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Is there any way I can get a PDF to show the way I last viewed it ?

This means:

1) The same zoom level.

2) The same page.

3) The same navigation panes

4) The same bookmarks expanded in the same way.

5) The same show/hide settings.

Is it really too hard to store this information somewhere ( databases anyone ? ) for each PDF document I open ?

This is baby programming. I would even pay for a version of the reader which did this. Instead every time I open a PDF document everything is set to some predetermined beginning and I must change everything once again the way I need it in order to view the document.

Why oh why, Adobe, is this so hard to provide for users of Adobe reader ?

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    Correct answer try67

    Go to Edit - Preferences - Documents and tick "Restore last view settings when reopening documents".

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    MOONJOON25958842kkmy
    New Participant
    January 4, 2024

    SOLUTION to not open on the LAST VIEWED PAGE (issue on PDF file format itself) 
    (1) Edit -> Preferences -> Documents -> "Restore last view settings when reopening documents".
    (2) Let Acrobat Reader save the PDF file under a different name. This new PDF file is built on Adobe's architecture. This new file will open on the last page you viewed.

    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    April 1, 2017

    Go to Edit - Preferences - Documents and tick "Restore last view settings when reopening documents".

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    edienerAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 2, 2017

    Thanks ! I did as you suggested and the result is:

    1) The same zoom level is restored.

    2) The same page is restored..

    3) The same navigation panes are restored.

    4) The same bookmarks are NOT restored but get completely expanded once again.

    5) The same Show/Hide settings are restored once I also checked the option "Remember current state of Tools pane"..

    This is much better. But why Adobe reader must completely expand all bookmarks each and every time I do not understand. In a document with a great number of bookmarks this is poor behavior. I could not find a setting to correct this. Does one exist ?

    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 3, 2017

    Why should a user have to do some artificial thing just to get Adobe Acrobat Reader to restore the bookmarks correctly ?


    It's just a quirk of how the application works. It's possible to save the state of bookmarks but they don't "dirty" the file just by opening and closing them. Anyway, It works and solves your problem...

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