Preferences for viewing PDFs

Show Each Document In Its Own Window

Creates multiple Reader windows rather than opening multiple PDFs in one instance of Reader.

Restore Last View Settings When Reopening Documents

Determines whether documents open automatically to the last viewed page within a work session.

Open Cross-document Links In Same Window

Closes the current document and opens the document being linked to in the same window, minimizing the number of windows open. If the document being linked to is already open in another window, the current document is not closed when you click a link to the open document. If you do not select this option, a new window opens each time you click a link to a different document.

Allow Layer State To Be Set By User Information

Allows the author of a layered PDF document to specify layer visibility based on user information.

Documents In Recently Used List

Sets the maximum number of documents listed in the File menu (Windows) or when you choose File > Open Recent File (Mac OS). The default is five for Windows and nine for Mac OS.

Automatically Save Document Changes To Temporary File Every _ Minutes

Determines how often Acrobat automatically saves changes to an open document.

Save As Optimizes For Fast Web View

Restructures a PDF document for page-at-a-time downloading from web servers.

Examines the PDF for items that may not be apparent, such as metadata, file attachments, comments, and hidden text and layers. The examination results appear in a dialog box, and you can remove any type of item that appears there.

Examine Document When Closing Document

(Not selected by default.)

Examine Document When Sending Document By Email

(Not selected by default.)

Current Document Only

Specifies whether or not the display is limited to a single PDF.

Fill Screen With One Page At A Time

Sets the page view to the maximum screen coverage by a single page.

Alert When Document Requests Full Screen

Displays a message before going into Full Screen mode. Selecting this option overrides a previous selection of Do Not Show This Message Again in that message.

Which Monitor To Use

Specifies the monitor on which full-screen display appears (for users with multiple-monitor configurations).

Escape Key Exits

Lets you exit Full Screen mode by pressing the Esc key. If this option is not selected, you can exit by pressing Ctrl+L/Command+L.

Show Navigation Bar

Shows a minimal navigation toolbar regardless of the document settings.

Left Click To Go Forward One Page; Right Click To Go Back One Page

Lets you page through an Adobe PDF document by clicking the mouse. You can also page through a document by pressing Return, Shift-Return (to go backward), or the arrow keys.

Loop After Last Page

Lets you page through a PDF document continuously, returning to the first page after the last. This option is typically used for setting up kiosk displays.

Advance Every _ Seconds

Specifies whether to advance automatically from page to page every set number of seconds. You can page through a document using mouse or keyboard commands even if automatic paging is selected.

Background Color

Specifies the window’s background color in Full Screen mode. If you choose Custom, you can select a color from the system color palette.

Mouse Cursor

Specifies whether to show or hide the pointer when Full Screen mode is in operation.

Ignore All Transitions

Removes transition effects from presentations that you view in Full Screen mode.

Default Transition

Specifies the transition effect to display when you switch pages in Full Screen mode and no transition effect has been set for the document.

Direction

Determines the flow of the selected default transition on the screen, such as Down, Left, Horizontally, and so forth. The available options vary according to the transition. If no directional options affect the selected default transition, this option is not available.

Navigation Controls Direction

Mimics the user’s progress through the presentation, such as transitioning from top to bottom when the user proceeds to the next page and from bottom to top when the user backtracks to the previous page. Available only for transitions with directional options.

Use Single Key Accelerators To Access Tools

Enables you to select tools with a single keystroke. This is off by default.

Create Links From URLs

Specifies whether web links that weren’t created with Acrobat are automatically identified in the PDF document and become clickable links.

Make The Hand Tool Select Text

Enables the Hand tool to function as the Select tool when it hovers over text in an Adobe PDF.

Make The Hand Tool Read Articles

Changes the appearance of the Hand tool pointer when over an article thread. Upon the first click, the article zooms to fill the document pane horizontally; subsequent clicks follow the thread of the article.

Make The Hand Tool Use Mouse-wheel Zooming

Changes the action of the mouse wheel from scrolling to zooming.

Make The Hand Tool Select Images Before Text

Changes the order in which the Hand tool selects.

Use Fixed Resolution For Snapshot Tool Images

Sets the resolution used to copy an image captured with the Snapshot tool.

Do Not Show Edit Warnings

Disables warning boxes that would normally appear when you delete items such as links, pages, page thumbnails, and bookmarks.

Reset All Warnings

Restores default settings for warnings.

Show Page Thumbnails In Print Dialog

Controls the print preview display in the Print dialog box. Deselecting this option speeds up the preview.

Emit Passthrough PostScript When Printing

Enables PostScript XObjects in the PDF file to be emitted when that PDF file is printed to PostScript printer.

Show Splash Screen

Determines whether the application splash screen appears each time the application starts.

Use Only Certified Plug-Ins

Ensures that only Adobe-certified third-party plug-ins are loaded.

Page Layout

Sets the page layout used for scrolling when you first open a document.

Zoom

Sets the magnification level for PDF documents when they are first opened. This value overrides document settings.

Use System Setting

Uses the system settings for monitor resolution.

Custom Resolution

Sets the monitor resolution.

Smooth Text

Specifies the kind of text-smoothing to apply: None, For Monitor, or For Laptop/LCD.

Smooth Line Art

Applies smoothing to remove abrupt angles in lines.

Smooth Images

Applies smoothing to minimize abrupt changes in images.

Use Local Fonts

Specifies whether the application uses or ignores local fonts installed on your system. When deselected, substitute fonts are used for any font not embedded in the PDF. If a font cannot be substituted, the text appears as bullets and an error message appears.

Use 2D GPU Acceleration

(Appears only if your computer hardware supports 2D GPU.) Speeds up zooming, scrolling, and redrawing of page content, and speeds the rendering and manipulation of 2D PDF content. This option is deselected by default.

Note: If the 2D GPU Acceleration option appears on the Page Display preferences but is not available, you may need to update your GPU card driver to enable this hardware feature. Contact your card vendor or computer manufacturer for an updated driver.

Use Page Cache

Places the next page in a buffer before the current page is viewed to reduce the time required to page through a document.

Show Large Images

Displays large images. If your system is slow to display image-intensive pages, you can deselect this option.

Show Art, Trim, & Bleed Boxes

Displays any art, trim, or bleed boxes defined for a document.

Show Transparency Grid

Displays the grid behind transparent objects.

Use Logical Page Numbers

Enables the Number Pages command for matching the position of the page in the PDF to the number printed on the page. A page number, followed by the page position in parentheses, appears in the Page Navigation toolbar and in the Go To Page and Print dialog boxes—for example, i (1 of 1) if the printed number of the first page is i. If this option is not selected, pages are numbered with arabic numbers starting at 1. Selecting this option helps prevent unexpected behavior when clicking Back or Go Back in your web browser.

Always Show Document Page Size

Displays the page measurements beside the horizontal scroll bar.

Use Smooth Zooming

When deselected, turns off animation effects, which improves performance.

Use Smooth Scrolling

When deselected, turns off animation effects, which improves performance.