"Remember State of Tools Pane" never works
The "Remember Current State of Tools Pane" option under Preferences...Documents never actually remembers anything. I close the annoyingly huge tools pane every single time I open a PDF, and every single time it comes back again.
You forced me to "upgrade" to this version of Acrobat Reader, and it drives me insane. There was a reason I installed the old reader with the simple interface that worked.
win10 home 22H2, reader version 2023.001.20174, but I'm pretty sure this has been a problem for as many versions as I can remember.
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Yasir Alam commented
I hate the proliferation of software that just demands and crams what they think you should want down your throat.
This tools pane setting has honestly been annoying enough to switch away from Adobe
Sadly as the default option, it won't make a dent in how they do things.
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Craig Duttweiler commented
Mitch: agreed. I'd be surprised if it took more than 5 lines of code to fix it. Pretty clearly their marketing schmucks are running the show and cramming it down our throats because it pushes some paid services.
Frieda: There are gobs of them. You can just google for "best free PDF reader". But after trying a few, I settled on Foxit. FWIW. YMMV.
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Mitch Bedzyk commented
Unfortunately, it seems that the tools pane is intentionally designed to remain open, despite what preferences you select. If they cared, they could have fixed this by now.
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Frieda Clark commented
I'm with you Craig. Yet in your post on August 2, you do not disclose what the alternative pdf reader is.
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Craig Duttweiler commented
I solved it by uninstalling Adobe Acrobat and installing one of the other perfectly fine, free, and totally FUNCTIONAL alternatives. If Adobe doesn't care to fix their bugs, then I don't care to use their software.
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JungHun Ban commented
Currently it doesn't work for me as well.
I solved it through clicking on "Disable new Acrobat Reader" in menu tab.
Old Acrobat Reader works with "remember current state of tools pane" opion for me.