How to display pdf file in full screen

[Guest]

In an attempt to make the presentation fluid and professional looking, I
would like to open an Adobe document in full screen. So far I have inserted
an Adobe object and set its behaviour through "Action Setting/Mouse
Click/Object Action = Edit". It works in so far as to open the application
and the file in a small window. I then need to use CTRL+L to go to full
screen. I have tried to record a macro to do all of this, but it fails to
record the mouse clicks I make within the Adobe application. Any suggestions?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

In an attempt to make the presentation fluid and professional looking, I
would like to open an Adobe document in full screen. So far I have inserted
an Adobe object and set its behaviour through "Action Setting/Mouse
Click/Object Action = Edit". It works in so far as to open the application
and the file in a small window. I then need to use CTRL+L to go to full
screen. I have tried to record a macro to do all of this, but it fails to
record the mouse clicks I make within the Adobe application. Any suggestions?

PowerPoint's macro recorder only records actions within PPT itself, and not
always all of those. Once Acrobat or reader is activated, PPT hasn't any idea
what's going on inside it.

I think you may have better luck creating an action setting that links to your
PDF file. That will launch Acrobat/Reader. The PDF file itself can be set to
open full screen, with or without toolbars etc. You'll need to do that in
Acrobat.

Note: links to PDFs don't work if the user has Reader 7.0 installed.
Adobe broke something. They fixed it in Reader 7.0.1

 

[Guest]

In Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader), go to File/Document Properties and check
"Open in Full Screen Mode" in the Window Options box. This setting is not
available in the reader but it should work in the reader if done in Acrobat.

.........................TD

 

[Guest]

Thank you Lads. TD, I have used your suggestion but sometimes it fails to
work specially when a document has strong security. Steve, your information
has enhanced my knowledge. For your information and for those reading, the
best solution that I found was installing the PowerPoint Add-in from Shyam
Pillai (www.mvps.org/shp/index) called 'insert Web pages'. It lacks a
'Browse' file directory capabilities, which you can write it yourself, but
open in full screen any pdf file and it is easy to install and use. Thank
you again.