Re: Acrobat viewer and A4

["Andreas Kühne" <Andreas.Kuehne2@primebase.com>]

Am Sonntag, 9. September 2001 13:03 schrieb Frans Goddijn:
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> I need to do this again every time Acrobat starts up. It defaults on
> "Letter" paper, the US size. I can't seem to find where to change the
> default to A4. If I change it when the document is already on display
> it doesn't make a diffrence in the view and there;s no "refresh"
> screen option to se the result after these settings have been
> modified.
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As far as I can find out there is a bug in at least the Linux version 
of Acrobat Reader 4.0 (was present in 3.x also).  I dont't know if the 
problems reported on Windows here have to do with it (but seems so).  
It is even a bit worse as described, because the Page Setup dialog 
_does_ remember the paper size, via a "*PaperSize:" entry in ~/.acrorc 
- but this affects only the combo box, _not_ the values actually used.  
These can still be viewed in the "Dimensions" area in the same dialog 
and are always 215.9 x 279.4 (if you use mm as default unit), i.e. 
Letter, on startup.  Only if you change them manually or via the combo 
box (which requires changing to whatever else and then back to A4) you 
get the right values.

This is a bug that should be easily removable but has been there for 
several versions over years.  I tried to report it to Adobe some months 
ago but gave up after getting lost in their web jungle.  Good example 
for the structural inferiority of closed source software, BTW.

Anders