‘Dear Lori’ offers tip on consistent PDF display from link
Users can change Acrobat’s default Preferences settings to customize how PDF documents are displayed and magnified when opened. Some may prefer displaying a page at a time, others may prefer continuous facing pages, some may want to view at actual size while others could choose to make the PDF display in the visible space. Users can make changes to:
Acrobat > Preferences > Page Display
If you don’t assign and save specific display settings you want used in PDF files you create, different users may see different views when opening the same file on different computers. To override the Page Display settings in Preferences — in order to have a PDF file open consistently across different computers — go to:
Acrobat > File > Document Properties
Go to the Initial View tab, and under Magnification, choose Fit Width and then BE SURE to Save (or Save As) the PDF to assign the new view attributes to that file. It should always open now to that view.
You can also assign view attributes to the target of a specific link within the PDF file, either when you first create the link or when you later choose to edit the properties of an existing link. That’s the subject of a recent user-submitted question recently e-mailed to Lori DeFurio of Adobe Systems. Lori solicits and answers user questions related to Acrobat and PDF in Lori’s Corner, one of the Tech Corners areas within AcrobatUsers.com. Read her answer to “How do I set the size of a page with a link?” and to other recent queries. Or send her a question of your own!
