Bookmarks and zoom level in PDF

Carol J. Elkins celkins at awrittenword.com
Mon Aug 29 12:38:56 PDT 2011


I think I should know how to fix this but apparently not. I'm using 
Acrobat 9 Pro Extended v 9.4.1. Problem: Bookmarks that I've manually 
created in a PDF have a different zoom than the bookmarks set for the 
PDF in Framemaker. For example, I may be viewing a page that displays 
at 100% and then click a bookmark and the resulting page displays as 
Fit Height. Setting the View->Zoom level for the document doesn't 
stick when you click a bookmark to a different page.

Apparently Acrobat remembers whatever zoom was in effect when the 
bookmark was created instead of the default zoom level set for the 
document. What a pain. So now I have a 242-page PDF containing 
several hundred bookmarks that were created via Framemaker and by 
manually adding them to the PDF (at various zoom levels because how 
was I to know?) and the zoom hops about from one setting to another. 
Seriously irritating. I've tried selecting all of the bookmarks at 
one time and resetting the zoom level in Properties, but doing that 
also sets every bookmark to target one single page of your choice, 
thus defeating the purpose of bookmarks.

Is there some setting that I'm missing when creating bookmarks that 
will apply the same default zoom to each page (so that I don't have 
to remember to be in the desired zoom when I create the bookmark)? 
And is there a way to change the zoom in my 242-page PDF so that all 
pages have the same zoom?

Carol




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