Left Hand Start for Facing Pages

[Caroline_Barney@adobeforums.com]

I am trying to create a Acrobat file with multiple files and for the life of me I can't keep it from Starting the flow on the left. It always moves it to the right.

I am combining different PDFs from a magazine and I want them to display correctly. I have tried to trick it with different page numbers and recreating it. I can make it look correct when it is open and set the document properties to open this way (or at least I think), but then when I close the file and open it again, it starts on the right.

How can change this??

Thank you for any advice or help you can give.

[Glenn McDowall]

put the front cover as page 1
put the inside front cover as page 2
all your text pages will now appear on screen as opening a magazine.

[Caroline_Barney@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for the response but the problem is that I don't want it to look like a front cover. What I have are two informational pages that I want to be the first thing you see, side by side. This isn't a magazine here, we want to send out parts of the magazine to our prospective advertising clients. The next two pages would be the first opening spread of the first article. I have tried tricking it by naming the first page #2.

Any ideas?

[Glenn McDowall]

Can you create your pdf as a spread?

I think the preferences to change the behaviour of how it looks on screen are on the host computer and not part of the file. If I'm wrong someone will be along shortly to correct me.

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

If you had InDesign, I'd make up the pages in InDesign the way you like. InDesign is superb at placing PDFs. Then PDF the resulting layout.

You're probably fighting a losing battle trying to lay it out that way in Acrobat.

But don't try it in QuarkXPress...

[Johanna_Sparling@adobeforums.com]

Noticed your question while seeking advice on the OPPOSITE of your problem. If you are using Acrobat 8, under "View..." "Page Display..." UNcheck "Show Cover Page During Two-Up." (My problem is that I NEED this checked for most of my work, and can't figure out how to make it a default).

In earlier versions, it's the reverse -- all Continous / Facing options put your first page on the right. I keep a blank page PDF on file to insert here, with a note on it that explains the page has been included to force all subsequent pages to view in facing pages, and a reminder to the recipient to go to "Continuous / Facing" pages to view the PDF properly.