Ubuntu – How to prevent PDF from opening on previously-viewed page

Evince (default PDF viewer) should automatically remember individual display settings for different documents. However, in 10.04, there doesn't appear to be a preference for the default view mode.

In Ubuntu 10.10+ (GNOME 2.30+), Evince has an option on the Edit menu for this: "Save current settings as default".

In that case you would change the zoom to Best Fit and set up all of your display preferences, and then activate that option which would apply to future documents. There are other PDF viewers out there that also do this, but I haven't found any as simple to use as Evince.

The answer as of now is No.

This file is encrypted and can only be opened with Acrobat Reader.

richard@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ pdfinfo n-400.pdf 
Title:          Appication for Naturalization
Author:         USCIS
Creator:        Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2
Producer:       Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2
CreationDate:   Thu Nov 15 16:21:11 2007
ModDate:        Tue Jun 21 11:36:34 2011
Tagged:         yes
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      yes (print:yes copy:no change:no addNotes:no)
Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:      110428 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.7

The only unencrypted element is the following text, found using pdftotext

richard@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ pdftotext n-400.pdf l.txt && cat l.txt 
To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade
to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html

There are lots of people affected by this.

My solution was to install acroread, fill in and print the form (the option to save wasn't available either for the form I was using), and then remove acroread.