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This is an unsupported feature and we are working on trying to fix this for future versions. Upgrading the Reader wouldn't have had any adverse effect since the earlier versions too did not support multiple desktops. You could run an additional reader instance by using acroread -openInNewWindow.

If folks would just read the help! :-) Try acroread --help

Thanks!

So it seems the problem is that from version 6 to 7 the default behaviour changed (first openInNewWindow was the default, then
the opposite). Unfortunately it seems it was forgotten to
add this to the configuration which can be stored under
"preferences" (one would assume that when changing a default
behaviour, then via some configuration switch you can get
back the old behaviour).

So the problem now is, that acroread apparently has to be
called with -openInNewWindow, and how to do this for
the graphical user interface (i.e., replacing "acroread" by
"acroread -openInNewWindow" for mouse-clicks)?
Setting an alias does not work (at least not under KDE), since
a different type of shell is called. So it seems that a single
user cannot (individually) get back the old behaviour?

So well, on my system I'm the only user; now I don't know how
to set a system-wide alias, but under
/usr/bin
I've put a script "acroread" with the content

#!/bin/bash
/usr/X11R6/bin/acroread -openInNewWindow $@

This solves it, but much better would be that one could configure
acroread to have this as default.

Thanks again for the quick reply!

(BTW, I've read the online documentation, and the help-pages
you can access from the graphical user interfaces, and there I
couldn't find anything on the problem.)

On my FC5 system running Gnome, there is a window option to fix this in 
any open window. The option is "Always on visible workspace" and is 
accessible by clicking on the icon in the upper left of the title bar.

Phil Sherman

Oliver_Kullmann@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just made the mistake (actually, hope not) to upgrade to
> Reader 7.0.8; now I have the following problem:
> 
> I use (as) many virtual desktops (as possible); until now,
> clicking on a pdf-document just started a fresh acrobat
> reader, and that was it. Now apparently the reader allows
> only one running program, and so the document does not appear
> in the virtual desktop where I am right now, but somewhere else.
> 
> Obviously, this is pretty stupid (I guess this behaviour is
> for ms-users, which apparently don't know about virtual desktops,
> and always have just one window open). Unfortunately, I didn't
> find anything in the preferences, help etc.
> What looks very suspicious is that in the menu list it says "window",
> and not "windows" ? So apparently the Reader itself has no capability
> to handle multiple windows? But then it should be possible to
> get back to the old behaviour, and just run different readers.
> 
> Hope somebody can help!
> 
> Oliver