This post is about influencing the display of a PDF file in a browser window.
Normally when one opens a PDF within a browser, the PDF is shown within the Adobe Browser plug-in. This plug-in automatically shows the PDF with the plug-in toolbar above it and navigational panes (information, bookmarks, annotations and attachment panes) on the left of it.
Rob Huismans, a CIBER colleague, found a way to automatically hide the toolbar and navpanes of the Adobe Browser plug-in when showing the PDF. This way involves passing certain parameters in the URL request of the PDF.
To hide the toolbar one needs to add the parameter toolbar and set its value to 0 to hide it or to 1 to show it. The same can be done for the navigational panes, which are identified by the parameter navpanes.
An URL requesting a PDF without displaying the toolbar and navpanes should look like this:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf#toolbar=0&navpanes=0
Thanks Rob 
