How to select some settings programmatically at startup?

[RamonHerrera@adobeforums.com]

I developed a plugin which performs some stuff upon a PDF being opened. I would like to add at least one action: "clicking" the option called "Click to show one page at a time" every time certain class of PDF files is opened. How is this performed programmatically?

The question is actually more general. Where are the settable settings documented?

TIA,

-RFH

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

If you mean preferences, see AVAppGet/SetPref

[RamonHerrera@adobeforums.com]

This is how it is done in JavaScript:

this.layout = "SinglePage"

but I need to place the preference setting in a C++ plugin.

Following Leonard's tip, this is what I found:

void AVAppSetPreference (
AVPrefsType preference,
void* newValue
);

This is the statement that I have guessed so far:

AVAppSetPreference(xxyyzz, PDLayoutSinglePage);

where xxyyzz is still to be determined.

I tried this:

AVAppSetPreference(PDLayoutMode, PDLayoutSinglePage);

but the compiler didn't like it.

-Ramon

[RamonHerrera@adobeforums.com]

This statement compiles:

AVAppSetPreference(PDLayoutSinglePage, 0);

-RFH

[RamonHerrera@adobeforums.com]

My only consolation if that you folks Google:

"worst documentation ever"

The first hit will be:

(AVPrefsType) Adobe Acrobat SDK.

So, I guess I am not the only dumb one.

-Ramon

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

Be aware that if the PDF has the necessary langauge features in it - it will (as required by the PDFRef/ISO 32K) override your preference.

[RamonHerrera@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for your kind assistance, Leonard.

This is the situation: all the PDF files that will be processed by the system I am developing will be generated by a server program that I am writing.

Therefore, all the PDF files will contain the necessary statement to be shown in "SinglePage" view. I will make sure to insert the view mode in every created file.

HOWEVER, the sample files that I am dealing with right now do not have such instruction in the PDF "code".

That's why I am looking for a way to program Acrobat itself, and I seem to be pretty darn close. All I am missing is the 2nd. parameter in this statement:

AVAppSetPreference(PDLayoutSinglePage, <what the heck goes here>);

Thanks,

-Ramon

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

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