how can i hide navigation panel buttons

Report · Oct 25, 2007

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

Report · Aug 05, 2015

Yes. Adobe DC UI is horrible. That screenshot can be taken with Adobe Reader XI also (Just press F8, F9 and "Hide Navigational Pane") - So your sarcasm failed. DC UI is too flashy - takes more space than normal Adobe reader. It has exactly same issue as Adobe XI - with bad UI elements.

Report · Aug 04, 2015

"Some other company, or group of umpteen developers would create a lot better PDF reader. PDF (format) is not rocket science - it can be learnt and software developed on it."

Okay, so go ahead and make your own PDF reader then. Apple did it.

Report · Aug 04, 2015

Alright, that is great. Now answer the question that this discussion board is on. Now that would be one awesome response. Why are all of you being so defensive and angry. If Adobe is such a perfect product, there should be a better answer than just asking the question, "Why would you want to get rid of them?"

You could just go ahead and say, "I don't know why Adobe didn't give that option," because honestly after hearing all of these responses, there is no real answer is there

Report · Oct 19, 2015

There are a jillion registry keys all over the place that I tried changing to

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

but the one that finally worked for me in Adobe Reader XI to permanently remove the

ANNOYING/USELESS/REDUNDANT "Navigation Pane" was:

HKCR\AcroExch.Document\Shell\Open\Command

Dicking around with all other instances of ftype, assoc, and other registry keys wouldn't work until I found this one.

If changing just this key doesn't work, then it's possible you need to change other assoc/ftype/keys as well

Adobe could so easily have just made options to remove all the annoying and superfluous changes rather than

forcing new widget layouts on users that require a wild goose chase to disable every time a new version comes out.

Now in XI, there is this huge extra "Open" button with an icon on the leftmost side of the Toolbar that I don't need

but which is taking up a lot of space on the toolbar.

JEEZ, Adobe, JUST QUIT IT WITH THESE USELESS ANNOYING, GRATUITOUS UI CHANGES!!!!

Maybe some employees are trying to justify their salaries by endlessly moving around widgets? LOL!

Report · Oct 19, 2015

Well, Adobe have moved on from Reader XI, but the current version probably has a whole new set of challenges.

Report · Oct 27, 2015

On Mac the solution for acrobat X is go to preferences, then select the documents tab and enable the option "restore last view settings when reopening documents". Now you can close whatever tools or panels you want and reopen acrobat with your custom view preferences.