How to set view documents in PDF/A mode preference to never in multiple machines

Control the Acrobat preference for viewing documents in PDF/A mode using registry key, so that the settings can be deployed on multiple machines.

Environment

Windows
Acrobat

Steps

The registry key iPDFAPolicy controls the preference for viewing documents in PDF/A View mode.

Registry Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\(product name)\(version) \AVDisplay\]

DWORD: iPDFAPolicy

Possible values of this key include:

• 0: Sets the value to Never
• 1: Leaves the field Blank
• 2: Sets the value to Only for PDF/A documents

You can export the AVDisplay registry key and use it to deploy this preference on other machines.