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How to Make Adobe Reader Remember Your Page

December 5th, 2007 @ 9:00 am

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Categories: Documents, Software, Time-Savers

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Acrobat Reader, That, Rick Broida

adobe-reader-setting.jpgIf you work with a lot of PDFs, especially e-books or other lengthy documents, you probably find it annoying that the files always open at page 1, not the last page you were viewing. Blogger Korayem discovered the simple way to enable Adobe Reader 8 to remember your page (as well as the zoom and pan settings): Click Edit > Preferences, choose Documents, and then check the box marked, “Restore last view settings when reopening documents. That’s it! Sometimes the best hacks are the simplest ones.

Alas, there’s no such setting in Foxit Reader, my preferred Adobe Reader alternative. Anyone know of another PDF viewer that lets you return to your previously viewed page?

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    Annieinthesun

    12/07/07 | Report as spam

    Or try this for opening at Last Viewed Page...

    I have Acrobat 7.0 and discovered that the sequence for setting to open a document to view at the last viewed page is slightly different: Go to EDIT, PREFERENCES, START-UP, and then select under the drop-down list: "Reopen documents to last viewed page" the option ALL FILES. Hope this helps. Great tips!

    A. Shea

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    zahidpbox@...

    11/20/08 | Report as spam

    RE: How to Make Adobe Reader Remember Your Page

    Excelent.... life saver... thanks realy

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    Flow86

    08/29/09 | Report as spam

    RE: How to Make Adobe Reader Remember Your Page

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