Using Adobe Acrobat Professional 7 I made a form with fields which is served from a Tomcat HTTP server.

When I use a URL like:

http://192.168.30.106:8080/qforms/pdfs/templates/30799_Appraisal_Form_ Template.pdf#navpanes=0

The form is loaded and the navigation panes do not show.

When I use a url like:

http://192.168.30.106:8080/qforms/pdfs/templates/30799_Appraisal_Form_ Template.pdf#FDF=http://192.168.30.106:8080/qforms/QFormsServlet?FormI D=2MYDVGJWL62794DBL8SG&Action=load

But when I use a url like:

http://192.168.30.106:8080/qforms/pdfs/templates/30799_Appraisal_Form_ Template.pdf#navpanes=0&FDF=http://192.168.30.106:8080/qforms/QFormsSe rvlet?FormID=2MYDVGJWL62794DBL8SG&Action=load

I get the message:

"This operation is not allowed."

After that the form loads but the FDF is not loaded into the form and the navigation panels are visible.

All three URLs conform to to the "PDF Open Parameters" document for Acrobat 7.

As this thread has clearly established, there does not appear to be any way to hide the navigation panels using Javascrpt.

As far as I can see what I have described above is a bug. Is there a fix or a workaround?

thanks,

Terry

If you look closely at the second and third URLs you will see that one contains navpanes=0 and the other does not.

Although I'm using Acrobat 7 the problems appear when the pdf is loaded by whatever version of the Reader is being used by the browser that downloads it. In my case this is Google Chrome 4, FireFox 2 or IE 6 all with recent Acrobat readers.

Thanks,

Terry

I think so. How do I tell which Reader version is running? I'm looking

at it now but don't see an About option anywhere.

This is currently a lesser issue for me than the second item I added to

the forum. How do you get a javascript to execute after an FDF is loaded?

How do I trap the External/Exec event mention in the PDF JavaScript

documentation?

Or is there another way to do that?

The problem is that then the PDF opens I can call a Javascript. But that

happens before the FDF is loaded. After loading there are new values in

the fields. I need to run a Javascript that highlights those fields that

still need to be filled in.

thanks,

Terry

Thanks. I found that but also found that Adobe regard this as a security

threat and so deliver the new Readers with that that option turned off.

Our users are not the sort of folks that can handle that sort of

complexity. I know that you and I don't see it as so complex, but my

boss does.

What external/exec event?

See the manual Adobe Acrobat 7.0.5 Acrobat JavaScript Scripting

Reference page 334

External/Exec

This event is the result of an external access, for example, through

OLE, AppleScript, or loading an FDF.

This event does not listen to the rc return code.

thanks,

Terry

Atin,

thanks for taking the time to send this reply. It won't work for

non-Windows Acrobat Reader scenarios, which is what I need.

Acrobat has a url parameter navpanes=0. But for whatever reason that

parameter is not allowed if the url also conrtains an fdf parameter,

which again, is what I need.

cheers,

Terry

I am interested in a similar issue. I would like to make sure that the pdfs my system generates will open with the Page navigator hidden. The reason being that my pages will be covered with an overlay which is removed based on a user action. If the Page thumbnails are rendered before the overlay is removed then they will always show just the overlay. There is no guarantee that the user wont open the Page navigator before hiding the overlay but I'd like to implement it this way as a convenience.

Is there a setting within the PDF which will make it open with a hidden Page navigator?

Thanks

Dan,

Did you try the solution mentioned in my post dated Feb 19, 2010.

Thanks

Terry,

Yes, I meant Feb 18 post only.

So, If I understand the requirement correctly, you want to disable navigation panels in your pdf for everyone.  You can try with checking the option Hide window controls in File->Properties-> InitialView Tab.

Thanks

Atin

What I am needing is quite similar.

Hide the Navigation panel while displaying a PDF in VB6.

I can do this manually, I can in an activate event set focus to the pdf and force key press of Ctrl+H.

this assumes that the Navigation is already on.

I need a way to hide the panel as the pdf I am showing is an attempt to make a thumbnail of the PDF.

If the user double clicks, they can see the full screen with navigation and all.

I am showing several PDF's at a glance.

If there were another way without having to use the AcroPDF.dll then I am open to suggestions.

Thanks,

Preach The word !!!

Two things:

1. I HATE, HATE, HATE with all the venom I can summon into my heart the INCESSANT, REAL-ESTATE-CHISELING, DISTRACTING navigation pane and its infuriating insistence on reappearing and reappearing and reappearing until you're ready to pound the desk with your fist. I don't like distractions. I don't dangle a light bulb off the corner of my TV or play paddycake with a half-inch-wide "pane" when I read a book. I simply focus on the pages, and nothing else. As I would like to do in Acrobat.

2. The removal methods suggested by Adobe employees and others in the first half of this thread never worked for me. They only succeeded in causing my documents to appear buggily. Maximizing, say, a small Acrobat window would work--but the document you were viewing would retain its small dimensions, even if it too was maximized. Who am I, Clint Eastwood driving a bus in "Gauntlet" and looking through a slit as I roll through the streets? That's who I felt I was until I hit F4 twice to reset the window to display the document to its borders.

I tried reinstalling Acrobat, but the window settings prevailed, surely through the registry somehow. Which brings up a third question: Why, when I have revoked consent for your product to even be on my hard drive (presumably the installation agreement doesn't say "you agree to have our stuff installed after you uninstall it"), does my registry remain bloated with litter from it?

And for a fourth thing, the removal of multi-document interface in 9 was the other worst thing that Adobe did. I can *NOT* stand having 580 windows open when I'm managing a workload.

GET.

A.

CLUE.

In the meantime, I'll be using the pre-vexware version of Acrobat that I recently downgraded to.

yippie

vb.net:

WebBrowser1.Navigate(ofd.FileName & "#navpanes=0")

> The navigation panel is also an information panel for letting you know when a PDF contains certain features (security, layers, etc.).

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Your own lame opinion is not of interest to us, customers.  We say your sidebard must be perma- disableable (NOT per-session, bu tpermanently) as it was in older Acrobat prior to ver 9 (or 8?).  Do you understand English language?  We do NOT want your idiotic sidebar - to me it's NOT about "valuable space", but about being distracted by more & more info we didn't ask for !  I am an Engineer, I know what's best for me betetr than you imagine you know.  I could give TWO FLYING KRAAPS about your "valuable" sidebar, all it does is make me want to go back to older Acrobat.

Your people sit on their a$$es and devise new ways to generate revenues by "revamping" a workign application, moving menus & stuff around and adding kraap features to justify your salaries, that's it - it is about constantly inventing weays to SELL more Acrobat.

I want sidebar disableable or I will hack it, and as I said I am an Engineer, I will hack to kill sidebar, thanks for makign my life harder, you Leonard ******** Rosenberg.

Second Grievance: Acrobat X canvas color is no longer compliant w/user's Windows System wide colorscheme (when Windows is in Classic mode - which happens to be the ONLY productive mode for working pro's, rather than kids with their "pictures & music" usage of computers.

It's fixated in "Silverish" color by your idiot coder.  Since when it stopped disrespecting user's Windows setting and enforce its own color?  Even if you don't want to read customers Windows colorshceme as was usual prior to AcrobatX, at least gives us ability to change that Canvas color.

Referring to Background color when you zoom out of PDF object, you see that object upon "backdrop/background" which graphicxpros call "Canvas".

Can you understand that breakign down this function is retarded?

What kind of progress is that in Acrobat X?  You want us to stick with your eye-sore silversih background ?!?>!  ANd not able to change? ?  AND REFUSE TO COMPLY WITH WINDOWS SYSTEMWIDE COLOR - IN MY CASE DESKTOP & ALL WINDOWS USE BLACK BACKGROUND, YES I WANT BLACK, DO YOU GET THE IDEA/??  I wish I coulduse stronger language $#$@U&&^$

P.S. Typos b/c posting from Mobile device ==> tiny keyboard & typing fast (busy!) - sorry !

hahah I know I have already hacked it in the past.  I have integrated a fast

version of it in my own skyboard system.  I will see what I did and get

back.. I am on your side of things as the side bar bs is just that.. like

what where they doing....  i remember I had a few hudnred pdf's showing all

at the same time.   in test runs.. .

geeze nobody has called me "leonard" in years....

I do remember though I had to encase a little wrapper over things... I will

be back when I can.

lenn

These idiotic "Navigation Pane Button" annoy me so that one day, I am afraid, I will throw my laptop into a wall. Three years later and still there is no way of getting rid of them by default. Adobe, please, pay somebody to add a check-box somewhere in your preferences to not open the buttons by default (if I need them once in two years, I can easily open them from the right-click-anywhere-on-the-document menu). You have a ton of junk settings in the preferences which nobody needs, however there is no way to adjust something big that faces the user every time a document is opened - that does not make any sense!!!

P.S. Tried to implement some of the solutions posted above (in Mac OS X) - the solutions do not work!!! I am not a hardcore programmer, but I am not a dummy in software and computers either. I could not make them to work...

hahah "average" .. pretty lame.

I have an electronic signage system which displays jpegs, video and I’d like it also to be able to display PDF files. I can’t do this because the damn buttons keep showing up on the display and there’s no way to turn it off.

This is just one application. I’m sure there are dozens of others where the buttons interfere.

Running in full screen is not a good solution for me since the PDF appears in the center of the screen but there is other information displayed around it.

Let me put the issue into perspective: let us say, once in 30 years it might snow in May, and on such a May day it would be useful to wear winter boots and a coat, however you do not expect people to wear such clothes every May day of every year (even though, occasionally it is a good idea), because it would a huge inconvenience. The situation here is the same, on one day in 2 years these buttons are useful, but it does not mean that it is a good idea to for us to suffer their presence the remaining 729 days...