make a pdf file inherit the position of a page in the viewer

[tim126]

After I open a pdf file in the viewer, I adjust the position of a page in the viewer's window, using the horizontal and the vertical bars.
After I click the bookmark of another page, I jump to the other page, but the position of the other page changes back to the default position. I have to adjust its position again.

Is it possible to make the pages I will visit by clicking bookmarks inherit the position I adjusted to for an earlier page?

Thanks.

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Hi Tim,

You would need to edit the properties of the bookmark to do this, as there are options for zoom level, position, etc. (see attached).

Screen-shot.zip

Cheers,

[tim126]

Hi Tim,

You would need to edit the properties of the bookmark to do this, as there are options for zoom level, position, etc. (see attached).

Screen-shot.zip

Cheers,

Can it be done once for all the bookmarks?

Repeating the same thing with each of many bookmarks is daunting.

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hi Tim,

Try the "Edit -> Preferences -> Page Display -> Forbid the change of..." option. It will not change the behaviour of the bookmarks and will keep the PDF intact, but will tell your instance of the Viewer to ignore those zoom level changes when you click bookmarks.

Regards,
Stefan

[tim126]

Hi Tim,

Try the "Edit -> Preferences -> Page Display -> Forbid the change of..." option. It will not change the behaviour of the bookmarks and will keep the PDF intact, but will tell your instance of the Viewer to ignore those zoom level changes when you click bookmarks.

Regards,
Stefan

Stefan,
it doesn't work.
I am not asking about inheriting zoom level which I changed to for an earlier page, but inherting the position of the page in the viewer's window which I changed to for an earlier page by moving the bottom horizontal scrolling bar and the right vertical scrolling bar.

[tim126]

Stefan and Will,
Do you understand what I asked?

[John - Tracker Supp]

Yes we understand - but the page position is set by the properties of the bookmark properties and not the preferences of your Viewer setup and this cannot be changed.

Therefore to change the default position your page is viewed and all relevant properties you must modify the bookmark properties and save them or the page position as you view will be lost as soon as you view another page and then revert back to your original page.

So to be clear the properties are set by the file and its content - not your Viewer setup or preferences - ever.

[tim126]

Yes we understand - but the page position is set by the properties of the bookmark properties and not the preferences of your Viewer setup and this cannot be changed.

Therefore to change the default position your page is viewed and all relevant properties you must modify the bookmark properties and save them or the page position as you view will be lost as soon as you view another page and then revert back to your original page.

So to be clear the properties are set by the file and its content - not your Viewer setup or preferences - ever.

See my reply to Will.
My question is rather how to do the change of positions one time for all the pages, instead of one page at a time?

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hi Tim,

No way to automate that - as these values are stored separately for each bookmark, and there's no way to mass manipulate bookmarks.

Regards,
Stefan

[tim126]

Hi Tim,

No way to automate that - as these values are stored separately for each bookmark, and there's no way to mass manipulate bookmarks.

Regards,
Stefan

Is it possible to write a shell script to do that?
Does viewer or editor have command and options for running in shell e.g. bash?

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hi Tim,

It might be possible to go through all bookmarks, and change their actions using JS, but we will not be able to provide samples code or further advise on this other than pointing you to the JS API reference.

Best,
Stefan

[tim126]

Hi Tim,

It might be possible to go through all bookmarks, and change their actions using JS, but we will not be able to provide samples code or further advise on this other than pointing you to the JS API reference.

Best,
Stefan

Thanks. Stefan.

Do you mean that the viewer or editor support using js to modify default positions of pages?
If yes, in the same way as adobe does?

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Hi Tim,

Do you mean that the viewer or editor support using js to modify default positions of pages?

I'm not sure that I understand. Are you asking about the position a bookmark will take you to? If so then I believe that this should be the case.

Just to make things 100% clear, this is not something to do with the default zoom level or page position set within the Document Properties or View settings, in your case these are the properties of bookmarks that need to be edited. Only then will you see what you are looking for.

[tim126]

Hi Tim,

Do you mean that the viewer or editor support using js to modify default positions of pages?

I'm not sure that I understand. Are you asking about the position a bookmark will take you to? If so then I believe that this should be the case.

Just to make things 100% clear, this is not something to do with the default zoom level or page position set within the Document Properties or View settings, in your case these are the properties of bookmarks that need to be edited. Only then will you see what you are looking for.

I meant if the default position of each page can be modified by running some javascript program in the viewer or editor, since stefan pointed me to that feature in adobe product.

[Paul - Tracker Supp]

Hi Tim,

you might have quite a challenge there. I asked my lead developer and he couldn't think of a simple way to do this. You could spend a great deal of time looking through that JavaScript API and possibly find a way, we just don't have anything with which to help you.

I guess I'm saying we can't help, good luck and let us know if you manage to achieve this?