How to Control Initial View of a PDF File

To control the opening view of a PDF document, open the document in Adobe Acrobat and select File > Document Properties...  Click the Initial View tab of the Document Properties dialog box and in the Show drop-down select "Bookmarks Panel and Page."  Also select the "Page layout" view and "Magnification"  and "Page number" you wish to start with (ie, the physical page in the sequence beginning with 1 IN ACROBAT, not necessarily page 1 in the document, if there is prefatory material).  There are also some interesting Window Options and User Interface Options you can select.  Be careful, there is some mutual exclusivity going on here.  If you select "Hide window controls" the Bookmarks panel will not display, even though you want it to.  You must know also that if you hide the menu bar, the tool bars and the window controls that the user must press F9 to get the menu bar back in order to exit the program.  A picture is worth a thousand words here: