An alternative, and in my opinion, better solution is to simply use the Brave browser. 5th, 2017 and revised on April 9th, 2021 to inform visitors that the provided instructions are no longer relevant. + This article was originally published on Oct. Let me know if you found any errors within my article or if I may further assist you by answering any additional questions you may have. Every time I open a PDF file, the bookmarks panel is automatically displayed, and I have to take the extra step of closing it, because I do not use.

You may support my work by sending me a tip using your Brave browser or by sending me a one time donation using your credit card. I welcome your thoughts, questions or suggestions on my article on hiding the Adobe sidebar and set your PDF view to 100%. Then set “ Page Zoom” to “ 100%” and save. To do so, open a Adobe Reader DC and go to “ Edit > Preferences > Page Display“. Next, we’ll want to set the default view of a PDF document to be 100%. Press the Shift key along with F4 to show it again. Upon relaunching Acrobat Reader DC the Tools pane sidebar will no longer appear. From the toolbar at the top click on “ Edit > Preferences > Documents” and select “ Remember current state of Tools pane“. Within Adobe Reader, collapse the Tools pane (if you haven’t done so already) then click the Hide Task Pane button that appears at the very bottom left of Adobe. This issue has been brought up for years on the official Adobe forums, but it doesnt appear the developers care about adding this feature. However this reader strangely has the fatal flaw of not being able to add bookmarks. The following instructions will help you to permanently hide the right hand sidebar in Acrobat Reader DC and to set the default view size to 100%. Adobe reader for iPad doesnt have this problem, since you can easily choose to scroll continuously.

This is for an older version of Adobe Reader and no longer works on newer editions.Īn alternative is to just use the Brave browser to open your PDF’s.īy using Brave I got to say “Goodbye” to frequent Adobe updates.

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