Hi everyone, tres boring question for you, sorry!
Is it possible to export my layout .pdf file (in our case, kitchen quotes for clients) so when they open it, it opens on a page of my choice? Ideally I’d like it to open on page 2, so it’s the first rendered image… sort of like a website “Hero image”.
Currently there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which page the .pdf file opens on, and googling it hasn’t really shed any light for a rookie like me!
Thanks!
Adobe Reader should open a PDF to the first page in the document. Other PDF viewers should do the same. LayOut creates the PDF in the order the pages are arranged in the LayOut file. If you want your client to see your “hero image” first, make it the first page in your LayOut file. There’s no reason your title page can’t be the second page. Having the client see your rendered image first actually seems like a good idea to me and I would borrow that for projects similar to what you are referring to.
As @DaveR suggested, or add a copy/extra “Hero image” to your cover page?
I find that if I open a PDF (Mac) in Preview or PDFExpert it remembers where I was - but I’m pretty sure clients see the first page on first open.
I have my templates with a nice cover sheet showing an overall project image with client name, etc… then it goes into specs, details, etc.
Thanks guys.
My computer uses Microsoft Edge to open them, and it’s very haphazard. Maybe a local setting though?
Yes, my logic is if it opens on page 2, by the time they’ve gone through four or five rendered images, then plans and elevations, by the time they’ve scrolled back to the front page with the price they’ll have committed too much time to go elsewhere?!! 
I don’t use Edge to view PDF files but it may work as Mike describes Viewer on Mac. If that’s the case, they will see the first page when they open it. I don’t know if there’s a way to modify the PDF files to open to a different page. Maybe there is an option in Adobe Acrobat or other PDF editors.
The simplest option would be to put the price on the last page.
Solid suggestion @DaveR. I’m too stuck in my ways I suppose!
Thanks!
A pdf contains code to render each page in a document. They are rendered in the order they are encountered in the code. So, page 1 is the first one found, page 2 the second, etc. I don’t think there is any way in pdf to tell an app to start with some other page or to order the pages differently. The behavior @bmike reports is I think due to information about the document that Preview and PDFExpert store outside the pdf itself in a cache.