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Adobe Acrobat 5 Tutorials

Interface / Navigating Basics

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Well a couple of other items that will be helpful for you to navigate around your adobe Acrobat file; and I easily open this file by going to the folder icon here and clicking on it brings up an open dialog box, and I just found that I have a document on my desktop which I am going to open, so that's how you open Acrobat files. That of course is exactly the same as going to the file menu and choosing open. What if you are not seeing the tools on the tool bar here - you need to go to window menu and choose tool bars and whichever tool it does not have a check next to it will be hidden so you can simply hide or show tools this way by selecting whichever one you want to hide or show. So that's window menu tool bars and then choose a tool to pop up on your tool bar. Another way to do that is on the Macintosh hold the control key while you click on the tool bar and it brings up a that essentially the same menu as a context sensitive menu and that is a right click on the mouse on a pc platform to get that effect. So here is our Acrobat document open here, and I am going to click on the thumbnails tab to show the thumbnails pane, and you can see that now we have two windows open essentially and I can click and drag on this scroll bar to scroll through the various thumbnails. Now one interesting feature is these thumbnails are being written on the fly, they are being created on the fly in Acrobat reader, and we have an option to embed thumbnails or not embed them; and if you don't embed them then Acrobat will just generate them on a fly and it takes little bit more processing power but it saves file space for your document. Similar to scrolling around using the scroll bar here you can actually scroll around on your document, by using its scroll bar, all the way to the right. If you click and hold on the handlebar for the scroll notice I get a little informational pane in my document, telling me what page I am going to go to of this 19 page document. So if I go down this far and let go, it means I'm going to scroll immediately to page 4. So that's a very helpful way of getting to a particular area or page on your document. Remember that Acrobat's basic unit of measure is a page. So with that in mind that's how each thumbnail, each thumbnail is a page and when you scroll, the unit of measure here in this little informational box is a page. We could also use the small arrows at the bottom of our windowpane to scroll up or down. Many people like to use the hand icon and that's this open hand here, this way you click and select the hand to click and drag, in the document - and notice when I click down the hand closes to grasp the page so I am actually dragging the page up. So this is another way of scrolling around your document by using the hand tool. Other thing I want to draw your attention to, are some other features of the Acrobat reader window here is that when, you have either the thumbnails or bookmarks open. We also have pop-up menu and this menu gives us a handful of options that in this case, for thumbnails we can choose between small or large. And this will be much more important one we talk a little bit more about Acrobat software as opposed to reader - there will be a lot more options available to us in these pop-up windows. Also notice on the far right hand corner we have another pop-up menu and we can get some information about our document, by choosing some of the options here. You can get to these same areas or same dialog boxes by choosing the equivalent under one of the menu options here, and we are going to talk a little bit more about that later. At the bottom of our Acrobat document I have some more navigational aids and items to choose from. Remember I said you can open and close the thumbnails and bookmarks by clicking directly on the tab. Another way of doing that is clicking on this tab right here, I am just tapping on it opening whichever tab is in the foreground, which in this case is thumbnails. Another way of doing that is clicking right on the divider bar here or I can click and drag to make this wider or narrower, and if I make it really wide we can see that will two rows of thumbnails. And again notice how my pdf document is resizing to maintain the fit width parameter, I told it to fit the width of the window so no matter how big I make this it will always try to fit the width of the window. Well that's a little silly I think I will scroll back so I am just seeing one column of thumbnails. So there are many different ways of getting around your document in Acrobat, and I just showed you a few; if you ever need to scroll around your document you can always the hand tool - that's the tool that moves the document around in your window. showed you a few; if you ever need to scroll around your document you can always the hand tool - that's the tool that moves the document around in your window.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Acrobat 5
Author: Andrew J. Hathaway
SKU: 33249
ISBN: 1930519850
Release Date: 2001-08-22
Duration: 7.5 hrs / 117 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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