Getting Around Inside Acrobat / Splitting the View
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Alright. Now finally I'm going to show you a really neat way for navigating and zooming around inside your PDF files. What I'm actually going to show you is a really neat technique for viewing two different parts of the same PDF file simultaneously. It's really cool. So as a matter of fact, what we'll be doing is dividing our screen horizontally into two areas. It's pretty cool. So to do so I'm going to head up to the Window Menu and then down to Split. And as soon as I choose Split, right away my Acrobat interface is divided into these two screens here; top and bottom. Now, I'm going to make sure that I'm clicked inside the top area here because I want to zoom in on my file here in the top portion. You can use whatever Zoom Tools or techniques that you want. I'm going to use my keyboard shortcut here, Command Plus or Control Plus on the Windows side there. Of course that zooms me in. I can scroll down to a different area here or you know what? I can even go to a different page if I wanted to. I'm going to go all the way down to Page 5. OK, so there's Page 5 in the top area there. Now, down in the bottom area here I'm just going to single click once in there. Single clicking sets the bottom pane as the active windowpane if you will and again I can zoom in a little bit if I want or zoom out or, of course, navigate to a different page completely. So there's Page 10 for example. Let me zoom in just a little bit more here. Alright. So now in the bottom area I'm viewing Page 10. In the top area I'm viewing Page 5. Pretty cool stuff. Of course I can grab this divider line here that divides the two windowpanes and drag them up and down if I wanted to as well. This is really great if you constantly have to compare content or compare material inside your PDF files. OK. So this is one way to work your Split Window. To get rid of it I'm going to go back to the Window Menu and then down to Remove Split. There's another way that we can work as well. I'm going to head all the way back up to the first page inside my PDF file. I'm just going to hit my Home Button on my keyboard; take me all the way back up to Page 1. I'll go up to the Window Menu and this time I'll choose Spreadsheet Split. Now, this mode, I don't think I would use very often. What I get is now four windowpanes here; one in each corner of my Acrobat interface and whatever I do inside one windowpane happens simultaneously in the other windowpanes. For example, if I scroll up and down, that vertical scrolling is happening in both of the top windowpanes if you will. If I scroll left and right, that would happen only in the left-hand windowpanes and of course if I drag over on the right-hand side, that's only happening in the right windowpanes, if that makes sense. I can't see a huge use for this. Maybe you could find a use for this. Maybe if I had a massive document like a large spreadsheet, hence the name of the command or maybe a large map or something like this. Definitely could use it there. And again, don't forget. You can always drag on your dividing lines there; horizontally and, of course, vertically as well. Alright. So there's two different techniques, two different methods for splitting your screen inside Acrobat and just as before, I want to get rid of this so I'm just going to head back up to the Window Menu and down to Remove Split. Perfect.
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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