How can I make an Initial View setting the default for all of my PDFs?

[phoebe...@adobeforums.com]

When I create a PDF, our company standard is to have the document displayed with the document name, not the file name. Every time I create a PDF from FrameMaker or Word, I have to open it up, go to File>Properties>Initial View and change the Window option to Show Document Title rather than the default, which is file name.
Is there a way to set that property to always be Document Title for my PDFs?

Thanks for any help...

[Jane_B...@adobeforums.com]

I'd like to know this as well!
In older versions of Acrobat the initial view settings were in the Distiller Preferences that you could access from Word. Once you'd set them there they became your default for all pdfs created from there. I can't remember in which version it was removed and only became available from within Acrobat, but it's incredibly annoying to have to go into each pdf I create (and it's a lot!) and change the initial view settings to our company standard.

Am I missing something blindingly obvious?

[berndalheit]

With a batch sequence you can change the initial view of all PDF documents in one folder.

[phoebe...@adobeforums.com]

What would the batch file contents look like? Is there an Acrobat API or are there some command line items and options?

Please elaborate on the batch file suggestion...

[berndalheit]

In Adobe Acrobat:
Advanced > Document Processing > Batch Processing...

[Geo_K...@adobeforums.com]

This assumes, one is using Acrobat Professional.

[phoebe...@adobeforums.com]

I am using Acrobat Professional and looked at the Batch Processing commands, but don't see one that would do what I want it to do. I don't want to run a batch file each time, anyway; I just want to have the Initial View settings set the same way for each document I create.

Perhaps this is a Distiller issue. I cannot find any options in Distiller that would set this, but perhaps there's a super-secret way of setting those defaults for the documents you create.

If not, then perhaps I need to go to the Request Features area...

[Bill@VT]

You would have to look through the settings file you are using in Distiller. I do think that you are correct that it would be in Distiller if it can be set. In the version of AA I have on this system, I could not find any default settings, but maybe in later versions of Acrobat you can.

[Geo_K...@adobeforums.com]

If you create a new batch process:

1. Name process
2. Click on "Select Commands"
3. Under "Document" select "Open Options"
4. Click the "Add" button
5. Highlight the added "Open Options"
6. Click the "Edit" button
7. Select the open options you want to be set to a given value
8. Click "OK" to accept changes
9. Click "OK" to accept command
10. Select your "Run" and "Output" options
11. Run the batch process

[Simo...@adobeforums.com]

Set inital view when creating PDF files using Distiller:

There is a way to achieve this using PDFmarks. The PDFmaker reference can be downloaded from here: <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdfmarkReference_v9.pdf>

Now before I explain, the following method can only be used in a Print to PDF workflow. In other words below method will not wotk when using PDFmaker 9 and Word 2007 as it doesn't use the print to pdf method. (Printing from Word 2007 to the Adobe PDF printer will work)

A. Edit the epilogue.ps file
1: Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Distiller\Data
2: Ensure the Administrator (or the user in question at least) has both read and write access to this folder and it's contents
3: Open the Epilogue.ps in Notepad or other text editor
4: Find the line that says: % Insert your custom PostScript here...
5: Below that line paste the following:

[ /PageMode /UseOutlines
/Page 1
/View [/Fit ]
/DOCVIEW pdfmark

Note: The above lines will open the document displaying bookmarks. if you just want the document on it's own use 'UseNone' instead of 'UseOutlines'. For other values check page 30 of the PDFmark reference.
/Page 1 opens the PDF on page 1
/View [/Fit ] opens the PDF Fit to page
For other values check page 48 of the PDFMark reference.

6: Save the epilogue. (if you get an access error, ensure the user has read write access to this file)

B. Creating a custom joboption in Distiller to use the epilogue file
Distiller's default settings will not use the prologue and epilogue.ps files, so you need to edit an existing job option file:

1: Launch Distiller and select any joboption you want to change
2: Go to settings>edit Adobe PDF settings
3: Select the Advanced option and tick 'Use Prologue.ps and Epilogue.ps
4: Save the edited job option.

C. Ensure the used PDF creation method is using the newly edited joboption:

Manually Distilling PS files: Select the edited joboption in distiller's dialog box

Printing directly to the Adobe PDF printer:
1: Go to Start>Printers and faxes and right-click the Adobe PDF printer and select 'Printing Preferences
2: Change the default settings to the newly edited joboption

PDFMaker (note this will not work for the PDFMaker 9 and Word 2007 combination, for PDFmaker 8 and Word 2007 ensure 'Quick and simple option is de-selected in the PDFMaker preferences)
1: Click on the Acrobat menu and select 'Create Adobe PDF preferences'
2: Change the conversion settings to the newly edited joboption.

Frame users should know what to do i assume.

[Geo_K...@adobeforums.com]

You can also use the undocumented JavaScript document property to open certain navigation panes:

this.pane = "bookmarks"; // bookmark

this.pane = "layers"; // layers

this.pane = "thumbnails"; // thumbnails

This code can also be added by JavaScirpt in a batch process:

// script to add a dcoument level script called "SetPaneView" to open the bookmarks pane:
this.addScript("SetPaneView", "this.pane = \"bookmarks\";");