Introduction; Downloading A Pdf File; Opening A Pdf File - Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Basic User Manual

Working with PDF files

Introduction

Many of the documents for your course readings will be PDF (Portable Document
Format) files. You can read and annotate (i.e. highlight text, add notes, drawings
and bookmarks) your PDF files on the tablet.
Not all PDF documents are created in the same way. Some are scanned in as large
images; others have various sorts of protection on them. Some files have Optical
Character Recognition (OCR) so you can search the text and highlight it. Scanned
PDFs (that have not been OCRed) only have the bookmark, drawing and notes
annotation tools available. These PDFs are basically image files—the text is not
recognised as text, so therefore cannot be highlighted, searched or "reflowed"
within an app.

Downloading a PDF file

Download a PDF file for testing and experiment with the various PDF readers.
1. Go to
http://www.laurierking.com/etcetera/the-mary-russell-
companion-free-ebook
2. Select the Click here to download the Companion in PDF link.
3. A Starting Download message shows and a small downward-pointing
arrow appears at the bottom-right of the tablet screen.
4. All the files you have downloaded can be found in the Downloads
folder. It is a good idea to make a shortcut to the Downloads folder on
your Home screen—see page 8 for details.

Opening a PDF file

Locate a PDF file you have downloaded. To open the file:
1. Short-press on the file name.
2. A "Complete action using" dialog box appears.
3. Choose an app.
4. The file opens.
Once you have tried a few PDF reader apps,
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and found one you like, you can choose to
automatically open PDF files in that app.
Select the Set as default checkbox, then
choose the app you want to use.
If you no longer want that default action to
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occur, go to Settings, Applications
manager, and select the application. Under
Launch by default choose Clear defaults
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