w***@adobeforums.com
2005-06-01 02:49:38 UTC
This was going to be a 'How Do I...?' post, but after an hour or better messing around (and a million errors written to my system log later) I finally stumbled upon the answer. Now it's going to be a rant post :P
Working in prepress I open an untold number of pdfs a day, and one of the very first things I check is the page size. A quick glance down at the bottom of the window lets me know the size of the page I am working with. Sometimes the size will change from page to page, and I make note of it as I quickly key my way through the document. After upgrading to version 7 of Acrobat, as part of the CS2 upgrade, I was somewhat surprised to find this little piece of information missing from the window.
No big deal I thought, they wouldn't have gotten rid of that feature. It must be here somewhere, I mean there are roughly eight hundred other pieces of information on the default gui, page size seems like an important one that should be there. It must be a preference I missed. A quick scan through the menus turned up nothing. A slow search through the menus turned up nothing either. Check preferences, nope. Maybe checking the pop-up tool-tips on every stinking icon will give me a hint. Nothing. Well let me check the manual... hahaha. *sigh* Acrobat Help it is.
<insert whole other rant on Acrobat Help here>
Well, not knowing what exactly the feature I am looking for is called I start with 'page size', nope... document size, no help. Maybe a scan through the index would help. Not seeing it there either. Hopefully there will be a Topic that is relevant. The workspace topics look promising. Nada. Off to the User Forums!
Then it happens.. a random swish of the mouse across the page and WAIT.. I saw something! Scrub around with the mouse again and there, in the lower left corner, on the pasteboard, it pops up '17" x 11"'. Finally!
Well shame on me.. that should have been totally obvious.. hover mouse in specific corner of pasteboard, duh. And way handier than just being able to see it where it used to be. Another benefit is now i can use my mouse a lot more too, rather than just keeping my hands on the keyboard! Too much sarcasm for one paragraph?
Please just put the page size back on the window where it was before.
</rant>
Working in prepress I open an untold number of pdfs a day, and one of the very first things I check is the page size. A quick glance down at the bottom of the window lets me know the size of the page I am working with. Sometimes the size will change from page to page, and I make note of it as I quickly key my way through the document. After upgrading to version 7 of Acrobat, as part of the CS2 upgrade, I was somewhat surprised to find this little piece of information missing from the window.
No big deal I thought, they wouldn't have gotten rid of that feature. It must be here somewhere, I mean there are roughly eight hundred other pieces of information on the default gui, page size seems like an important one that should be there. It must be a preference I missed. A quick scan through the menus turned up nothing. A slow search through the menus turned up nothing either. Check preferences, nope. Maybe checking the pop-up tool-tips on every stinking icon will give me a hint. Nothing. Well let me check the manual... hahaha. *sigh* Acrobat Help it is.
<insert whole other rant on Acrobat Help here>
Well, not knowing what exactly the feature I am looking for is called I start with 'page size', nope... document size, no help. Maybe a scan through the index would help. Not seeing it there either. Hopefully there will be a Topic that is relevant. The workspace topics look promising. Nada. Off to the User Forums!
Then it happens.. a random swish of the mouse across the page and WAIT.. I saw something! Scrub around with the mouse again and there, in the lower left corner, on the pasteboard, it pops up '17" x 11"'. Finally!
Well shame on me.. that should have been totally obvious.. hover mouse in specific corner of pasteboard, duh. And way handier than just being able to see it where it used to be. Another benefit is now i can use my mouse a lot more too, rather than just keeping my hands on the keyboard! Too much sarcasm for one paragraph?
Please just put the page size back on the window where it was before.
</rant>