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Adobe Acrobat 6 Tutorials

Introducing Acrobat 6.0 / Adobe Reader

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When you distribute PDF files created with Acrobat 6, they can be viewed by anyone who has a copy of Acrobat6 Professional, Acrobat 6 Standard or the new Adobe Reader installed on his or her computer. The new Adobe reader was previously known as the Acrobat reader. If you distribute PDF files to viewers who may not have Acrobat 6 Standard, Acrobat 6 Professional or the Adobe Reader You should provide the URL to Adobe's webpage, where recipients of your documents can download latest version of the Adobe Reader. If recipients of your Acrobat 6 PDF files attempt to open the files with older versions of the Acrobat reader, certain features such as embedded multimedia files may not be properly displayed. If you display PDF documents on a website, you should include a link to the Adobe download page as well. You can download this image from Adobe’s website and use it as a trigger for the link. Now I'm just going to exit full screen mode here, and show you a copy of the outline for the tutorials you are viewing that was converted into a PDF document, and I have also included my picture in there as well. Now when you look at the Adobe Reader interface, you notice there are a few things that are missing when you compare it to the actual full version of Acrobat. You don't have as many tools to work with and you don't have as many menu commands You do however still have the navigation pane with the exception of the comments tab. Now some of the tools you can use, your users can use, are the select text tool and a select image tool. Now this particular version of the document I've opened has some security applied to it, so viewers cannot print the document or select an image from the document. The select text tool however they can select text and then when they right click on a Windows machine or control click on a Macintosh there are no provisions for copying the text to the clipboard, however they can look up a word and they’ll be linked to a online dictionary. Something you may want to point out to recipients of your PDF documents. This feature by the way is also present in Acrobat Standard and Acrobat Professional. Now, I'm just going to exit this mode and get rid some of these nasty pop-up ads, and I'll open up a version of this that is not protected and show you a couple things your recipients can do. With the select text tool, you can select text, right click on a Windows machine or control click on a Macintosh, choose copy to clip board then open a word processing application, such as Microsoft Word and choose edit, paste, and there is your information in the document. You can also use the select image tool and notice the little cursor that appears when I drag this around the image. Select the image, right click or control click on a Macintosh and choose copy image to clipboard, then open an image editing application such as Macromedia FireWorks, create a new file and then choose edit, paste, and there is the image in another application. Even though you will be doing most of your work in the full version of Acrobat, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the features of the Adobe Reader. After all, you may have to instruct recipients of your PDF files, how to use the application. If you are distributing documents to viewers that are not familiar with the Adobe Reader, or are not familiar with computers in general, you may want to consider including a brief tutorial on how to use the application to view your PDF documents. You can create this tutorial in PDF format using the techniques you learn from the upcoming lessons.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Acrobat 6
Author: Doug Sahlin
SKU: 33463
ISBN: 1-932072-61-6
Release Date: 2003-11-26
Duration: 7 hrs / 123 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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