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October 13, 2019
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How to view 2 pages, side-by-side in PDF within Adobe Digital Editions 4.5+

  • October 13, 2019
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Why is it impossible to display two pages at once, side-by-side, when viewing a PDF in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5? Even after presumably 4.5 iterations, in the year 2019, how it is possible for such a simple feature, in a book reader no less, to be entirely absent? At least allowing the user the option to view a book or magazine in it's original format seems like a no-brainer.

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      BarColJX
      Participant
      December 22, 2022

      Digital editions is an embarrasment as a piece of software, painful to use and makes me think the rest of Adobe's software is just as lacking in features. It cannot be that hard to include a double page view. That single feature alone would make the program ten times better. Shameful for a company so apparently geared towards creativity.

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        K320
        Participant
        January 14, 2022

        It can't be done.

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        Coos226526472nx3
        Participant
        January 14, 2022

        14 January 2022, and still no two page view. I need Digital Editions for my studies and boy is this annoying. Get it fixed please.

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          Anonymous
          April 2, 2021

          I am uninstalling the software. It is unusable. Eating up space on my hard drive and practically useless. 

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            defaultagklp22evejb
            Participant
            June 17, 2021

            Yep, I just installed it. Incredibly slow and not user friendly. I am uninstalling.

            macedohugo1303
            macedohugo1303
            Participant
            October 8, 2020

            I am losing my s**t over this. It's ridicilious, really unconfortable to read books like this. And I see that nothing has been done to change this yet. Dammit Adobe get it together and fix this. 

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              michaelj0223
              Participant
              April 22, 2020

              Ditto for me. Especially when Adobe Reader can do 2-page view...Why not just do it in Digital Editions? Or at least default to Reader when opening pdf's in Digital Editions....

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                openroadmusic
                Participant
                February 7, 2020

                Yes, I have a couple of art books in the format -legitmatley purchased too! -that are practically unreadable. So infurating. Anyone know of another app that will open same files on iPad? Or is there anyone from Adobe who can let us know of planned update to 'fix' issue?  

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                  defaulty7ubb4qrrus8
                  Participant
                  April 10, 2021

                  I just downloaded and tested bluefire reader for Windows, version 1.1 from http://storage.googleapis.com/windows_updates/setup_1_1_1006.exe (through https://www.bluefirereader.com/bluefire-reader.htmlhttps://www.bluefirereader.com/bluefire-reader.html).
                  Unfortunately, bluefire reader for Windows 1.1 doesn't offer 2-page view either.

                  RobmOz
                  RobmOz
                  Participating Frequently
                  October 15, 2019

                  My understanding is that Adobe Digital editions isn't meant to be a full featured book reader. It's meant to be a "lightweight" application with minimal features. I'm not exactly sure why this is the case and how Adobe justify it. Maybe to save them money on making it portable across different devices? As if they are going broke!! 😁  I agree,  especially surprising given it seems to be the default reader for copy protected books!

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                    K320
                    Participant
                    January 14, 2022

                    Adobe pays no attention to Special Editions because they don't gain any revenue from it. It is outrageous that I have no choice in the matter if I want to borrow books from an online library

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