Toggle 'Show Cover Page During 2-up' in Acrobat
Dec 09, '08 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: zoopiedoop
When viewing book PDFs with the facing-pages (two-up) view option, one usually wants left-facing pages to be on the left so that spreads are viewed as they would be in a printed copy. Unfortunately, Acrobat 8 often defaults to the opposite. This simple AppleScript toggles the View menu option Show Cover Page During 2-up:
With a keyboard shortcut assigned to it via an application like the wonderful and free Spark, you are one keystroke away from proper two-up viewing. Note that this script employs GUI scripting, which is turned off by default. Here's how to enable it.
[robg adds: When I read this hint, I thought 'Well, that's sort of overkill; why not just assign a keyboard shortcut using the Keyboard Shortcuts panel in System Preferences?' While I don't have Acrobat Professional, I tested using Adobe Reader, and found that the app won't let you assign shortcuts -- if you try, you'll see a message that says 'You cannot add keyboard shortcuts for the application Adobe Reader.' Digging in the app's info.plist file, there's a key named UIDisallowUserKeyboardShortcuts that's set to TRUE. I tried changing it to false, then moving the app and relaunching, but I still got the same message. So it looks like GUI scripting is the only way to do this...]
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