Current Acrobat does two things that get under my skin. I'm hoping one of you guys+gals has fought it and won.

1) Old default behavior for two-page view was to lead with a single page before the pairs, which is very important for looking at the layout of a book with interior gutters. I understand why they made that no longer the default behavior - it's undesirable for web PDFs, which are primary usage these days - but it seems like that behavior probably still exists somewhere if I just know what flag to throw, and I can't find it. (Also, I really need it.) Admittedly, I could hack it with some juggled toggle-able css rules and a presto-I-disappear fake leader page, but I *really* don't want to.

2) "Please wait while this document is being prepared for" window is very slow and annoying on large documents, and re-generating during that window's presence occasionally causes Prince to be unable to re-generate until it's restarted. I have seen a setting somewhere to turn that window off, and go back to the old "just show it as you get that far" behavior, but I can't find it.

Ideas, lords and ladies?

John Haugeland is http://fullof.bs/

In the final release of Prince 8.0 there is a new property "prince-pdf-page-layout: two-column-left | two-column-right", one of those should get the result you want. I'm not sure about the second issue, though.

I think maybe I didn't explain myself sufficiently.

It's not that I want to adjust it to a two-column-left layout. I want the two-column-right layout: I'm building for a physical book.

What I need is for Reader to start displaying the first page as a right page, like it used to. The problem is in attempting to use Reader as print preview, because it is no longer correct with regards to gutter placement on a book-style right leading page.

John Haugeland is http://fullof.bs/

The prince-pdf-page-layout property only affects the way pages are viewed in Adobe Reader, eg. does it show two pages, then two pages, and so on, or one page, then two pages, and so on. Anyway I may be confused, we'll just release it and see how we go.

Oh, sweet, that's exactly what I need.

Adobe sucks for taking that out of the UI.

That is all.

John Haugeland is http://fullof.bs/