prevent click zoom in acrobat and reader

[Shlomo Perets]

Jon,

You wrote:

>One thing that drives me crazy about acrobat and reader is that I get so
>many PDF files that zoom in whenever I click in the document window. It
>also happens on my own docs that I create. Is there a way to prevent
>this from happening? I looked in the acrobat 7.0 pro Help and it only
>mentions the zoom toolbar. This occurs without even having the toolbar
>open.
>
>How do I prevent docs from zooming in when I click on them?

If you see the down-pointing arrow inside the hand cursor, then this is the 
Article feature. Very often "article threads" are present in PDFs as a 
result of default settings, and cause more problems than the limited 
benefits they may offer if defined correctly --  see 
http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html#0406 ("Help! Acrobat article threads!").
[ The limited functionality of articles in Acrobat was made even more 
limited in Acrobat/Reader 7 by the new preference of "Enable text selection 
for the Hand tool" ]

To prevent articles from being created in PDFs, turn off "Articles" in the 
Bookmarks tab in FrameMaker's PDF Setup dialog box.

If the article thread is already present in the PDF, you can delete using 
the Article tool in Acrobat.


Shlomo Perets

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