Chapter 3: Viewing, Searching And Saving Pdfs; Quickstart - Adobe READER 8 User Manual

Chapter 3: Viewing, searching and saving
PDFs
You can open and view PDFs in Adobe Reader, from the desktop, or in a web browser. You can save a copy of a PDF
or save a PDF in text format. When you search PDFs, you can refine your search criteria and search across multiple
PDFs for text and other kinds of data.

Quickstart

Change viewing mode
To give you more space for reading a document, you can change the viewing mode.
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Choose View > Reading Mode or Full Screen Mode.
In Reading mode, toolbars and the navigation pane are hidden but the menu bar is present. In Full Screen mode,
everything but the document is hidden. To exit from Full Screen mode, press Esc.
View PDFs in a package
An Adobe PDF package opens with a list of the PDFs it contains and a PDF package navigation bar.
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Open the package and do any of the following:
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To view a PDF, select it from the PDF list or click Open Next
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To change the position of the PDF list, click one of the list position icons.
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To access package-related commands, click Options and choose the desired command.
View attachments
A PDF may have other PDFs attached to it, either as single files or a PDF package. When you open a PDF containing
attachments, the Attachment panel opens automatically.
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Double-click the desired PDF. The attachment opens in a new window.
If the attachment is a PDF package, the first PDF in the package opens along with a list of all PDFs in the package.
Click a PDF to view it.
Check security restrictions
When you receive a PDF, it may contain restrictions preventing actions such as printing or copying information.
Click Security Settings
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only appears when the PDF contains security restrictions.)
View restriction information. In the Security Settings panel, you can click Permission Details to get more infor-
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mation.
If you cannot open a PDF or are restricted from using certain features, contact the PDF author.
or Signatures to the left of the document window. (The Security Settings button
or Open Previous .
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