how can i hide navigation panel buttons

[_susana_albor_]

Hi, i would like to know how can i remove or hide programatically the navigation panel buttons because i have an applicattion where i open the pdf documents and i don´t want this buttons are shown never.i want that, when the application is open, the buttons don´t be shown. i´m refering to the button on the left of Adobe Reader 8: the botton are "pages", "how to","atachments", and "comments". thanks a lot for your help
susana

[lrosenth]

Two things

1) Acrobat 7 is no longer supported by Adobe, so we can't help you with that specific product. But we'll certainly see if the same problem exists in currently supports versions (8 and later).

2) The second and third URLs that you posted are exactly the same. What do you believe the difference is - or was it a typo?

[Guest]

If you look closely at the second and third URLs you will see that one contains navpanes=0 and the other does not.

Although I'm using Acrobat 7 the problems appear when the pdf is loaded by whatever version of the Reader is being used by the browser that downloads it. In my case this is Google Chrome 4, FireFox 2 or IE 6 all with recent Acrobat readers.

Thanks,

Terry

[lrosenth]

So you are saying that Acrobat/Reader 8 and 9 also report that error message?

[Guest]

I think so. How do I tell which Reader version is running? I'm looking

at it now but don't see an About option anywhere.

This is currently a lesser issue for me than the second item I added to

the forum. How do you get a javascript to execute after an FDF is loaded?

How do I trap the External/Exec event mention in the PDF JavaScript

documentation?

Or is there another way to do that?

The problem is that then the PDF opens I can call a Javascript. But that

happens before the FDF is loaded. After loading there are new values in

the fields. I need to run a Javascript that highlights those fields that

still need to be filled in.

thanks,

Terry

[lrosenth]

You put the JavaScript in the FDF - details in the FDF documentation. There is a "before load" and an "after load" area.

What external/exec event?

[Guest]

Thanks. I found that but also found that Adobe regard this as a security

threat and so deliver the new Readers with that that option turned off.

Our users are not the sort of folks that can handle that sort of

complexity. I know that you and I don't see it as so complex, but my

boss does.

What external/exec event?

See the manual Adobe Acrobat 7.0.5 Acrobat JavaScript Scripting

Reference page 334

External/Exec

This event is the result of an external access, for example, through

OLE, AppleScript, or loading an FDF.

This event does not listen to the rc return code.

thanks,

Terry

[Guest]

Terry,

You can use the following keys to hide navigation panels in Acrobat 7.0.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\AVGeneral\cPalettes\c0]
"iBottom"=dword:000002ae
"iLeft"=dword:00000032
"bMinimized"=dword:00000000
"iRight"=dword:00000118
"sTabs"=hex:2a,49,6e,66,6f,00
"iTop"=dword:00000218
"bVisible"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\AVGeneral\cPalettes\c1]
"iBottom"=dword:00000122
"iLeft"=dword:00000262
"bMinimized"=dword:00000000
"iRight"=dword:000003de
"sTabs"=hex:2a,41,72,74,69,63,6c,65,73,2c,44,65,73,74,69,6e,61,74,69,6f,6e,73,\
  00
"iTop"=dword:00000078
"bVisible"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\AVGeneral\cPalettes\c2]
"iBottom"=dword:000002ae
"iLeft"=dword:00000262
"bMinimized"=dword:00000000
"iRight"=dword:000003de
"sTabs"=hex:46,69,65,6c,64,73,2c,2a,53,74,72,75,63,74,75,72,65,50,61,6e,65,6c,\
  2c,43,6f,6e,74,65,6e,74,50,61,6e,65,6c,2c,4c,61,79,6f,75,74,50,61,6e,65,6c,\
  00
"iTop"=dword:000001c8
"bVisible"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\AVGeneral\cPalettes\c3]
"iBottom"=dword:0000016d
"iLeft"=dword:00000114
"bMinimized"=dword:00000000
"iRight"=dword:0000018c
"sTabs"=hex:2a,42,6f,6f,6b,6d,61,72,6b,73,00
"iTop"=dword:000000e4
"bVisible"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\AVGeneral\cPalettes\c4]
"iBottom"=dword:000001b2
"iLeft"=dword:00000146
"bMinimized"=dword:00000000
"iRight"=dword:000001be
"sTabs"=hex:2a,53,69,67,6e,61,74,75,72,65,73,00
"iTop"=dword:00000129
"bVisible"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\AVGeneral\cPalettes\c5]
"iBottom"=dword:0000018f
"iLeft"=dword:000000ba
"bMinimized"=dword:00000000
"iRight"=dword:00000132
"sTabs"=hex:2a,54,68,75,6d,62,6e,61,69,6c,73,00
"iTop"=dword:00000106
"bVisible"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\AVGeneral\cPalettes\c6]
"iBottom"=dword:000002b6
"iLeft"=dword:000000c6
"bMinimized"=dword:00000000
"iRight"=dword:0000013e
"sTabs"=hex:2a,41,74,74,61,63,68,6d,65,6e,74,73,00
"iTop"=dword:0000022d
"bVisible"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\AVGeneral\cPalettes\c7]
"iBottom"=dword:000002c8
"iLeft"=dword:0000014e
"bMinimized"=dword:00000000
"iRight"=dword:000001c6
"sTabs"=hex:2a,41,6e,6e,6f,74,4d,61,6e,61,67,65,72,00
"iTop"=dword:0000023f
"bVisible"=dword:00000000

[Guest]

Atin,

thanks for taking the time to send this reply. It won't work for

non-Windows Acrobat Reader scenarios, which is what I need.

Acrobat has a url parameter navpanes=0. But for whatever reason that

parameter is not allowed if the url also conrtains an fdf parameter,

which again, is what I need.

cheers,

Terry

[Guest]

Acrobat 9.0 has a new key for hiding these tabs(as they are called by Adobe)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\9.0\RIF\"bOpenNextWithTabs"=dword:00000000

Try whether this works for Acrobat 7.0 also.

[danpresley]

I am interested in a similar issue. I would like to make sure that the pdfs my system generates will open with the Page navigator hidden. The reason being that my pages will be covered with an overlay which is removed based on a user action. If the Page thumbnails are rendered before the overlay is removed then they will always show just the overlay. There is no guarantee that the user wont open the Page navigator before hiding the overlay but I'd like to implement it this way as a convenience.

Is there a setting within the PDF which will make it open with a hidden Page navigator?

Thanks

[lrosenth]

If you don't set them to open with the page panel open, it won't.

HOWEVER, you should know that Acrobat/Reader dynamically generate the page panel contents from the actual pages - so that whatever overlays, etc. you have will also be reflected in the panel.

[Guest]

Dan,

Did you try the solution mentioned in my post dated Feb 19, 2010.

Thanks

[Guest]

Atin,

I guess you mean the post on February 18th?

I did not try this because I needed a solution that would work on the computer of anyone who downloaded my pdf. I would not be able to change the key values in their registry, or even to know if they are running on Windows.

thanks,

Terry

[Guest]

Terry,

Yes, I meant Feb 18 post only.

So, If I understand the requirement correctly, you want to disable navigation panels in your pdf for everyone.  You can try with checking the option Hide window controls in File->Properties-> InitialView Tab.

Thanks

Atin

[javawizard-WPyQEu]

I haven't figured it out either, but came up with a work-around for the Delphi developer (and Borland C++ developers) at least:

Put the PDF ActiveX component on a TPanel component. Then shift its left position to -42 pixels, and make it 42 pixels wider than the panel. This works perfectly on my computer, but may be different on other end user configurations. Does anyone know how I'd figure the width of the ubiquitous Adobe toolbar on the left? - Jeff

[PreacherMan66]

What I am needing is quite similar.

Hide the Navigation panel while displaying a PDF in VB6.

I can do this manually, I can in an activate event set focus to the pdf and force key press of Ctrl+H.

this assumes that the Navigation is already on.

I need a way to hide the panel as the pdf I am showing is an attempt to make a thumbnail of the PDF.

If the user double clicks, they can see the full screen with navigation and all.

I am showing several PDF's at a glance.

If there were another way without having to use the AcroPDF.dll then I am open to suggestions.

Thanks,

Preach The word !!!

[lrosenth]

If all you need is a thumbnail of the PDF, why not use the API(s) specific to that purpose? Look at the StaticView sample in the SDK.

[db7178a1]

Two things:

1. I HATE, HATE, HATE with all the venom I can summon into my heart the INCESSANT, REAL-ESTATE-CHISELING, DISTRACTING navigation pane and its infuriating insistence on reappearing and reappearing and reappearing until you're ready to pound the desk with your fist. I don't like distractions. I don't dangle a light bulb off the corner of my TV or play paddycake with a half-inch-wide "pane" when I read a book. I simply focus on the pages, and nothing else. As I would like to do in Acrobat.

2. The removal methods suggested by Adobe employees and others in the first half of this thread never worked for me. They only succeeded in causing my documents to appear buggily. Maximizing, say, a small Acrobat window would work--but the document you were viewing would retain its small dimensions, even if it too was maximized. Who am I, Clint Eastwood driving a bus in "Gauntlet" and looking through a slit as I roll through the streets? That's who I felt I was until I hit F4 twice to reset the window to display the document to its borders.

I tried reinstalling Acrobat, but the window settings prevailed, surely through the registry somehow. Which brings up a third question: Why, when I have revoked consent for your product to even be on my hard drive (presumably the installation agreement doesn't say "you agree to have our stuff installed after you uninstall it"), does my registry remain bloated with litter from it?

And for a fourth thing, the removal of multi-document interface in 9 was the other worst thing that Adobe did. I can *NOT* stand having 580 windows open when I'm managing a workload.

GET.

A.

CLUE.

In the meantime, I'll be using the pre-vexware version of Acrobat that I recently downgraded to.

[Abibe8220]

I've been trying to follow the advice from Patrick Leckey on 9. May 8, 2008 2:45 PM in response to: (susana_albor) , however, I can't find the particular .exe definition mentioned, nor can I find the particular registry paths mentioned. I too would like to disable the navigation pane on the left hand side permanently.

I have Adobe Acrobat X Pro.

[Mark Gates]

> The navigation panel is also an information panel for letting you know when a PDF contains certain features (security, layers, etc.).

===

Your own lame opinion is not of interest to us, customers.  We say your sidebard must be perma- disableable (NOT per-session, bu tpermanently) as it was in older Acrobat prior to ver 9 (or 8?).  Do you understand English language?  We do NOT want your idiotic sidebar - to me it's NOT about "valuable space", but about being distracted by more & more info we didn't ask for !  I am an Engineer, I know what's best for me betetr than you imagine you know.  I could give TWO FLYING KRAAPS about your "valuable" sidebar, all it does is make me want to go back to older Acrobat.

Your people sit on their a$$es and devise new ways to generate revenues by "revamping" a workign application, moving menus & stuff around and adding kraap features to justify your salaries, that's it - it is about constantly inventing weays to SELL more Acrobat.

I want sidebar disableable or I will hack it, and as I said I am an Engineer, I will hack to kill sidebar, thanks for makign my life harder, you Leonard frigging Rosenberg.

Second Grievance: Acrobat X canvas color is no longer compliant w/user's Windows System wide colorscheme (when Windows is in Classic mode - which happens to be the ONLY productive mode for working pro's, rather than kids with their "pictures & music" usage of computers.

It's fixated in "Silverish" color by your idiot coder.  Since when it stopped disrespecting user's Windows setting and enforce its own color?  Even if you don't want to read customers Windows colorshceme as was usual prior to AcrobatX, at least gives us ability to change that Canvas color.

Referring to Background color when you zoom out of PDF object, you see that object upon "backdrop/background" which graphicxpros call "Canvas".

Can you understand that breakign down this function is retarded?

What kind of progress is that in Acrobat X?  You want us to stick with your eye-sore silversih background ?!?>!  ANd not able to change? ?  AND REFUSE TO COMPLY WITH WINDOWS SYSTEMWIDE COLOR - IN MY CASE DESKTOP & ALL WINDOWS USE BLACK BACKGROUND, YES I WANT BLACK, DO YOU GET THE IDEA/??  I wish I coulduse stronger language $#$@U&&^$

P.S. Typos b/c posting from Mobile device ==> tiny keyboard & typing fast (busy!) - sorry !

[Guest]

YOU, as an end user, can do it manually by right-clicking on the panel and choosing to hide them.

Leonard

"I want you to redesign your application to suit ME ONLY, and ignore the millions of satisfied users! ME ME ME!"

Yeah, great business strategy. How much is your company worth compared to Adobe? So who has the better business sense, I wonder?

Wow, that's some great customer service there.  The user must be wrong because their personal tastes and preferences are different than yours.

For anyone else looking for ways to remove this aggravation, I got the "fix" to work through trial and error.  There's no record of which reg key to edit so I had to hunt it down myself.  For Adobe Reader XI, I changed the following key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.11\shell\Read\command

To read:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" /A "navpanes=0" "%1"

No more navigation pane buttons!  Now it looks how it should.  Your reg path may be different than mine, but hopefully it should work the same.  Of course, none of this would be an issue in the first place if Adobe decided to add a preferences checkbox to begin with.  But that would require NOT forcing their useless screen-cluttering features on the end user.  They haven't learned how to do that yet.

Thanks Adobe!

[Zhopa_Dura]

Too bad this solution is not applicable to Mac users 😞 My guess is that Adobe developers are used to stare at their products on nice 27 inch screens, in which case the buttons do not waste too much of the screen real estate. But for many people like me, who spend a lot of time using Adobe Reader on a 13 inch screen of a MacBook Pro, the buttons are nothing but useless annoyance...

[vklrc]

Great! I tried it, and it works!

Many thanks to ReynardMuldrake

[4297762509]

second that, it works!!!!!!

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.7\shell\Read\command

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" /A "navpanes=0" "%1"

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document\shell\Read\command

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" /A "navpanes=0" "%1"

thank heavens, that took hours of googling and ruining my computer

[cbm80]

Thanks to ReynardMuldrake for the solution. I'd like to point out something to anyone at Adobe who may be reading this. For anyone using a 16:9 or 16:10 monitor in portrait orientation and using single page view, vertical space is plentiful, but horizontal space is precious. That's why the navigation pane is extremely annoying. Without that pane hogging valuable horizontal space, I don't need to resort to full screen mode. (I'd like to get rid of the scroll bar too, but I can live with it).