I run Acrobat 5.0.5 under W2K and Office XP. I prefer to have Acrobat open the resultant PDF after distillation. I do distillation both via the Office toolbar buttons (PDFMaker macro) and by printing the document to  the Distiller printer. This is done in the PDFMaker settings with the "View Result in Acrobat" drop-down menu option and it is done in the Acrobat Distiller printer preferences / Adobe PDF Settings tab / "View Result in Acrobat" checkbox. These settings toggle Registry settings as follows:
 
For PDFMaker,
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat\PDFMaker\5.0\FileOptions]
"ViewPDFFile"=hex:01
 
For Distiller Printer,
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\Acrobat Distiller\PrinterDriverData]
"ViewPrintOutput"=dword:00000001
 
The problem is that these options work, at best, infrequently. There's either a bug here or there's more to the story that I'm not aware of. I've seen this problem posted elsewhere, but have never seen it explained and a workaround posted. Ideas? Thanks.
Mark

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