pragmatist Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I recently learned that when opening a .PDF file in Acrobat (probably the typical program for most), there are embedded settings that tell it how it should open. These include cover page (or no cover page), fit to page width (or fit to another dimension), continuous scrolling vs. page by page, etc. When sending a digital "book" (for example where you want to have the first page stand alone as a cover, then 2 page spreads), I think these settings are important for professional presentation. But unfortunately, Affinity does not seem to let you change these settings, and it must be done in the paid version of Adobe Acrobat. Is there any way these settings could be incorporated into the PDF export process? Thanks! BennyD and k_au 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pragmatist Posted January 26, 2021 Author Share Posted January 26, 2021 Hoping a bump is not inappropriate...surely someone must know if this is possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 On 11/13/2020 at 9:09 PM, pragmatist said: when opening a .PDF file in Acrobat (probably the typical program for most), there are embedded settings that tell it how it should open. These include cover page (or no cover page), fit to page width (or fit to another dimension), continuous scrolling vs. page by page, etc. Would be nice to have. I don't know if InDesign CC can do that now, but ID CS5.5 can't. I always had to adjust these settings in Acrobat X. On the other hand, many PDF readers won't even respect these settings anyway, including Apple's Preview. And frankly, I, for one, don't use Acrobat – let alone Acrobat Reader – for anything else but preflight and for managing the aforementioned settings, hoping that at least part of the folks who will download those PDF brochures actually use Acrobat Reader to view them "properly" as intended by me. But else, for viewing any random PDFs that I download from Teh Interwebz myself, even I'm fine with the puny Preview.app… Fixx 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pragmatist Posted February 4, 2021 Author Share Posted February 4, 2021 On 1/26/2021 at 2:32 PM, loukash said: Would be nice to have. I don't know if InDesign CC can do that now, but ID CS5.5 can't. I always had to adjust these settings in Acrobat X. On the other hand, many PDF readers won't even respect these settings anyway, including Apple's Preview. And frankly, I, for one, don't use Acrobat – let alone Acrobat Reader – for anything else but preflight and for managing the aforementioned settings, hoping that at least part of the folks who will download those PDF brochures actually use Acrobat Reader to view them "properly" as intended by me. But else, for viewing any random PDFs that I download from Teh Interwebz myself, even I'm fine with the puny Preview.app… That's a great point too—I wonder how many users are actually viewing with Acrobat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 1 minute ago, pragmatist said: I wonder how many users are actually viewing with Acrobat. Interestingly, the built-in PDF viewer in Firefox respects these settings. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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