Adobe Reader 8 default view

[scaniavabis]

I've looked everywhere that I can think of to set the document thumbnail view as the default when a pdf document opens. Does anyone know how to do this, I know that you only have to click on the thumbnail icon to show thumbnails of the document pages but in an older version of Adobe this happened by itself. Any ideas anyone?

[rojash]

From the help file:
"When you open a PDF, the navigation pane is closed by default, but buttons along the left side of the work area provide easy access to various panels, such as the Pages panel button and the Bookmarks panel button ."

So (stupid as it seems) it appears that you cannot have it default to thumbnail view.