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Anonymous
June 11, 2013
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fullscreen registry setting

  • June 11, 2013
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I have modified the FullScreen - iShowDocumentWarning registry setting to '0', to never show document warnings for full screen.  However, it is still showing the "going into full screen" warning on my pdfs.  Am I changing the right registry setting?

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EnterpriseHelp
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June 11, 2013

The Preference Reference specifically states what the pref does, and it's not what you want: http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/PrefRef/Windows/index.html.

I don't think that pref is documented. You can simply get the regshot utility and take a before and after registry capture to figure out what toggling the full screen UI preference sets in the registry.

Ben

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Anonymous
June 11, 2013

Yeah that did not help.  It almost seems as if this is a setting or preference on a pdf by pdf basis.  Unfortunately I have a work requirement, that we would like to display multiple pdf files on one big monitor.  Rotate them coninously in full screen mode.  The difficulty is that these pdfs are updated frequently throught out the week by other users.  So if I make changes to Ex.pdf to have it always open in full screen mode and not prompt user and then another user updates the Ex.pdf by copying and replacing then those full screen preferences i set are lost.  I do not want to manually set these settings everytime for a new version of same pdf.  Ontop of all this it needs to be done on a mac as well.

Anyway sorry for the rant.... i am just frustrated.  Something so simple has turned out to be quite complicated

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Anonymous
June 12, 2013

The big picture is that 1) if there is a preference in the product to do what you want, then 2) you can set that preference and it will apply to all PDFs, then 3) you can distribute that setting across machines.

So your solution (assuming the preferences exist) is:

  1. Get regshot
  2. Close all apps except Acrobat.
  3. Go to the preferences panel you need.
  4. Take a regshot.
  5. Set the Acrobat prefs.
  6. Close Acrobat.
  7. Take another regshot.
  8. Compare the to registry snapshots.

You now have a list of what's changed.

hth,

Ben


Ben,

    I did that but was unable to tell what registry setting if any had changed.  The comparison results found 50 some differences, not all adobe.  Perhaps I did not close everything out as you state.  I will try this again.  If that works then I need to figure out how to enable or disable it on MAC OS X, which is where the ultimate solution needs to work.

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