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Adobe Acrobat 9 Tutorials

Getting Around Inside Acrobat / A Tour of the Interface pt. 1

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OK so I'm going to give you a tour of the Acrobat interface here. Before we really get rolling though I'm going to get a file open so we have something to look at here. So I've already got Acrobat launched, I'm just going to go up to the File Menu here and then down to Open and inside my Chapter 3 Folder I'm going to open up my file here, my 05 Layout there. I'll click on Open, open this guy up here. This is what we see inside Acrobat. Now I think the best place to start here in terms of a tour of your interface is your toolbar is right across the top portion of your screen. Now what you can do with your tools here is you can just hover over top of the tools, just like I'm doing here and what's interesting is unlike other programs that you may have worked with. In other programs when you hover over top of Tools the program usually just gives you the name of the tool. Here inside Acrobat we actually get a description of exactly what that tool does. For example select Text and Images for Copying and Pasting with the Select Tool, that sort of thing. So take a moment, work around inside the toolbar area of your screen here, get used to what you see here, there's lots and lots to work with here and as a matter of fact there's many more toolbars that you can work with here inside Acrobat, lots and lots of stuff. So, what I could do for example is I could go up to the View Menu here and then all the way down to Toolbars and here I have a full list of toolbars that are available to us inside Acrobat. For example we have something called redaction, print production, multimedia edit, comment and mark-up, lots and lots of stuff to play around with here. We'll talk about working with these in much more detail as we go along here. But maybe for example I'll choose Advanced Editing and the Advanced Editing Toolbar opens up of course and same story as before, I can hover my mouse over top of these tools and learn a little bit about what each of them does. So there you go. There's that sort of a quick run through there of your toolbars, that's the idea there, we're not actually going to use any of the tools just yet, we'll get to that a little bit later on. But the other thing that I wanted to mention as well is sort of your primary tool here inside Acrobat and he should be turned on by default already, he's called the Hand Tool. This guy right here. So how I explain this is whenever you're done with whatever it is you're doing, maybe I decide to use one of the tools on my Advanced Editing Toolbar, for example I would take that tool, I would work inside my actual document down in the main window area here and then whenever I'm done, whatever it is I was doing, I would go back to the Hand Tool. So in other words whenever you're finished your work go back to the Hand Tool, the Hand Tool is sort of the default tool or the tool that you'd have turned On whenever you're not actually doing anything inside Acrobat and something important to know as well is the users of your PDF File, those that are going to be viewing your documents would have the hand tool turned On as well. So in other words if you want to know how your file is going to work for you users, just switch over to the Hand Tool and your document will now behave as it would for your users. I hope that makes sense.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Acrobat 9
Author: Geoff Blake
SKU: 33985
ISBN: 1-935320-40-8
Release Date: 2009-04-10
Duration: 7 hrs / 106 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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