Acrobat Reader question

[PTCvette]

Okay, so I am running Acrobat Reader 7. I have a big PDF that I have to read... Something around 500 pages. For the life of me, I can't find a way to mark my place and come back later. Seems like there HAS to be a way to do this and I am just missing something, but I've looked all over and can't seem to find it.

Maybe there's a plugin or addon or something that will do it... Anyone know?

Jeff

 

[KillyKillall]

Only the publishers using Adobe Acrobat can do this. Reader does not have the function just like you can't modify the document.

 

[PTCvette]

BAH.... That's kind of what I was afraid of. Acrobat reader couldn't be more useless to me thanks to the lack of that feature. I never need it, except this one time, and I'm not going to sit down and read a 500 page book in one sitting, so what am I supposed to do? Make a text file and save what page I am on that way?

So, if Acrobat can't do something that simple, is there any alternative that can?

 

[imported_Acrobat]

Originally posted by: PTCvette
BAH.... That's kind of what I was afraid of. Acrobat reader couldn't be more useless to me thanks to the lack of that feature. I never need it, except this one time, and I'm not going to sit down and read a 500 page book in one sitting, so what am I supposed to do? Make a text file and save what page I am on that way?

So, if Acrobat can't do something that simple, is there any alternative that can?

I know that low tech solutions are generally frowned upon in high tech fora, but a good ole paper and pencil to write down the page numbers does the trick.

If however you hate pencils you can rename your pdf file with the page number you arrived at, that works too ;-)

 

[KillyKillall]

hm...acrobat....adobe acrobat....acrobat...adobe acrobat...<shrug>

 

[HN]

here's something i wrote up last year for acro 6. might still apply for 7:
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Edit --> Preferences -> startup --> "reopen documents to last viewed page"

There is a drop-down box there with choices of ebooks only, marked files and ebooks, or all files. Next time you close your pdf, it will bring up a dialog. just answer accordingling and you should be set. (note: doesn't seem to work for all documents. I tested it on several documents and didn't work for one of them, just kept opening to page 1 for some reason; may have been a setting when the PDFs are originally created).
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