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For these next few movies I want to work with adobe acrobat reader because it has less options to talk about, and for the beginning part of this training cd I want to talk about how to navigate around a document we already have to look at. And how you can create documents before we get into how you can edit documents with acrobat. So this is a document I have created called sterovue 1.2 and it was an actual help file I created for a client called stereo graphics. Stereo graphics is a hardware and software manufacturer and in this case they created a piece of software, which renders stereo images from a 3D imaging application; and what I did was I was hired to create essentially the user manual, for how this plug-in works. And so what I did is I created a multi chapter, or about a 20 page document, with text and graphics. So with that in mind - thank you very much for stereo graphics by the way - I want to talk about how adobe acrobat reader works. And as I mentioned earlier it's a collection of menu options at the top of the screen as well as tools at the top in the tool bar and for now I want to talk about three of these tools and show you how essentially the tool bar works in general. Notice in this pane right here on the right side I am looking at the actual document, whereas on the left side of my, my screen here we have a pane or windowpane for thumbnails of the window document. There are three buttons, which we will be coming back and using very often, and these are three different viewing options for our pdf document. The one I almost always use is this one right here, and you can see how the graphic looks - it can cuts of the bottom of the document - and this one is called fit width. And what it does is when you click on it, it makes sure that your document is as wide as possible, taking advantage of the document pane as much as possible. The one to the left of it is called fit window and what it does is it shrinks the document, to fit the entire thing was one page of it in the window available to you; and the other one the last one of the three is actual size, if we click on this notice what it has done is zoomed in to an actual size 100% of my document. And now if I want to see the left or the right side I need to click and drag with my hand tool, and drag it over so I can see the right side of my document. So we have fit width, which is zoom in so that the entire width of the document is showing. Obviously I still need to scroll up and down to see the bottom or the top of my document but it does fit the width. If we made our thumbnail's panes smaller I am going to click on that bar here - you can click and drag it out here to whatever size you want. Notice how acrobat reader resizes the document pane to do whatever it needs to do in order to maintain this type of view, which is fit width. So I want to talk a little bit about our tool bar at the top here - these three tools are very important. That's why I wanted to jump off and talk about those quickly, but notice that some of these tool bars here have a little raised ridge right here. That means that you can click and drag off this particular section of the tool bar and make it a floating palette. So now you can see that this is a floating palette with the same tools attached in this floating palette, and if I pass over any particular tool you can see that it highlights briefly indicating to me that if I click on this tool now, this is the one that will do something the action will take place if I click on the tool that is highlighted. Also with many of these tools if you pass your cursor over a tool and don't move it briefly it will pop up the tool help, giving you a little more information contextually of the what that tool does. If you want to reattach a floating a palette back to the tool bar, all you need to do is click and drag on the raised ridge, drag it back up to the tool bar area and let go. And you can see it has been reattached to my tool bar. Some of the tools have a small upside down triangle next to them like this magnification tool and that means that there is a pop up menu and hidden tools associated with it; so if you click and hold on that upside down triangle it brings up the menu of additional hidden tools and the last one available to us is expand this button - if you choose that it will put all the tools that arehidden on a tool bar or on that tool set on the tool bar. Finally, we can do just the opposite by clicking on the triangle, which is now a leftward pointing triangle, click on that and it will reduce the set of tools up showing only one. This is the way to optimize your tool bar setting, see don't have two rows, if you have lots of tools available, sometimes it bumps it down into two rows which of course gives you less room to view a document. Some of these tools should be pretty familiar to you are used to working with Microsoft office productivity tools. These three items here are familiar under to you if you use file menu at any time, the open folder icon is the same thing as choosing file menu open. It will bring up an open dialog box asking you to go and navigate in some directory and find the document you want to open. The small floppy disk icon is a save button, so if you click on that bring up and save as the dialog box and then the printer icon of course allows you to print a document you have open. Again all these tool and options are replicated under some file menu. Some of the tools actually do something if you simply click on them such as the minus and plus here if you click on the, the minus icon in the circle it will zoom out, some tools allow you to select a tool and then you need to move into your document to use it. Such as the zoom tool, if I click the zoom tool, it doesn't actually zoom in but I have selected the tool and if I move into my document, you can see the cursor changes to be the magnification, magnifying glass or magnification tool, which means all I need to do click once to zoom in. So I am going to talk a little bit more about how these tools, how each tool works in later movies, but I want to give you a brief overview, of how some of the options available to us in the tools palette, in the menu options as well. re about how these tools, how each tool works in later movies, but I want to give you a brief overview, of how some of the options available to us in the tools palette, in the menu options as well.