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In this movie I want to talk about some of the options and differences in the interface between reader and acrobat. Currently I am in acrobat reader so I go over the right here menu choose to see what applications are currently active. I can see that I am looking at acrobat reader and on the pc that would be indicated at the bottom of your screen. You can see an acrobat reader that it is a collection of tools and a tool bar and different menu items to choose from; and then I actually have my stereovue document open right now my pdf file that I have already created and we have some options for, on these tabs here, for viewing thumbnails or bookmarks. So this is the reader, and as I mentioned the reader is a subset of tools and features that can be found in adobe acrobat itself. I am going to switch to adobe acrobat 5 and you can see that we have a lot of the same tools and now we have some extra tools here; and these tools allow us to do things besides simply viewing and navigating pages in acrobat. We can also add notes and mark up and comments on a document as well as adding links and other items to our comment to a document. We also have some extra tabs here one for signatures and comments. So you can see that acrobat software is more robust and gives you more features than the reader; but very often maybe you don't need to author any documents you just need to see how the reader works and how you can navigate and so the reader might be just fine for you. The last thing I want to show you is my document in Internet explorer. I used the file menu and choose open file in Internet explorer and opened up my stereovue document and you can see what it's done, Is it has added the acrobat reader options inside Internet explorer. So we actually have some all the same tabs available to me in acrobat and the reason I have all four tabs is because I am a the official owner of acrobat not just a reader; if you have just the reader software you would only see the bookmark and thumbnails here; and we have all the other tools available to us and this is inside as you can see a browser window. So it's a very cool way of using acrobat and in fact there are some features that just work inside a browser. So they made it very easy to use to view a pdf file inside a web browser. I am going to go back to reader and talk about briefly how some of the navigational features work in acrobat and how the interface is setup; as I mentioned acrobat is a collection of menus and menu items, and like most software if you see a menu item that has three dots after it such as page setup here dot dot dot. It means it's going to bring up a dialog box giving you other options to take advantage of. There are several tools, tool buttons that we can click on to do something. And many of these tools in the reader software are designed to allows us to open and close, or save a document as well as navigate around; the thing to remember about acrobat is that its basic unit of measure is the page. So with that in mind, acrobat and acrobat reader gives us different ways to navigate through pages into other pages and back, very much like a web browser. So we have tools that allow us to do something and many of these tools options are features are duplicated as menu items themselves, so the more comfortable and familiar you are with the acrobat interface the more often you will be simply clicking on a tool to do something, as opposed to go and finding that option in one of the menus. We have the document window available to us and this gray bar at the top here is called the title bar and it gives us the title of the document here in this case stereovue1.2 pdf and if we want to we can resize and move this document around by clicking and dragging on the title bar to reposition it somewhere else on the screen. The bottom right hand corner of my document there is a corner area but I can click and drag to resize the window; and also notice that how acrobat is actually resizing the content where I resize the window - so it's a very cool feature. As I mentioned we have some tabs over here to click on - it opens up some other panes. This is the bookmark window allowing us to see bookmarks and in which are essentially different types of hyperlinks, that allows us to go to different areas on a document if we click on a bookmark, and similarly we have a window for thumbnails which give us a small graphic of each page. At the bottom of the window here we have some more navigational aids allowing us to skip around a document or go directly to certain page if we wish; and also how we want our document to be displayed. And I will talk all about how these particular features work in later movies. directly to certain page if we wish; and also how we want our document to be displayed. And I will talk all about how these particular features work in later movies.