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Adobe ACROBAT READER 4.0 - MANUAL 2 Manual

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• Using Reader for UNIX
• Viewing PDF documents
• Navigating PDF documents

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Contents • Using Acrobat Reader • Printing PDF documents • Using Reader for UNIX • Viewing PDF documents • Navigating PDF documents • Filling out forms • Copying and pasting text and graphics to another application • Using PDF on the Web •...

  • Page 2: Using Acrobat Reader

    Web site at http://www.adobe.com. On the Adobe Web site home page, you can click a country name in the Adobe Sites pop-up menu to choose a language for viewing the site. The exact information in the site may vary from one language version to another.
  • Page 3 Acrobat Reader Electronic End User License Agreement presented during installation of each product. A special “Includes Adobe Acrobat” logo is available from Adobe for use when distributing Acrobat Reader. See the Adobe Web site (www.adobe.com) for details.
  • Page 4 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 4 To open a PDF document: Do one of the following: Click the Open button , or choose File > Open. In the Open dialog box, select the filename, and click Open. PDF documents usually have the extension .pdf.
  • Page 5 When you view a PDF document in a Web browser, all of the Acrobat Reader tools are available in the browser. In Windows, you can click the two small vertical lines (next to the Adobe icon at the left of the tool bar) to minimize or maximize the tool bar.

  • Page 6: Printing Pdf Documents

    Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 6 Opening a PDF file embedded as an OLE object in another file You can read PDF documents that have been incorporated into other documents created by any OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) 1.0 or OLE 2.0...
  • Page 7 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 7 2 Click the Print button , or choose File > Print. Specify the printer, page range, number of copies, and other options, and click OK. Most of the options are the same as they are for other applications, but note the following:...
  • Page 8 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 8 OS, this specifies whether to print using PostScript (without selecting level) or to print pages as bitmap images. Force Language Level 3 (Mac OS) prints the pages using LanguageLevel 3 PostScript. Select this option if you’re printing PostScript to a file rather than to a printer and you want to use LanguageLevel 3 PostScript.
  • Page 9 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 9 If Download Asian Fonts is not selected, the PDF document prints correctly only if the referenced fonts are installed on the printer. If the fonts are not on the printer but the printer has similar fonts, the printer substitutes the similar fonts.
  • Page 10 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 10 % cat sample.pdf | acroread -toPostScript | lp Note: If a PDF file has been secured with an Open password or does not allow printing, you will not be able to print from the command line.
  • Page 11 PDF files that contain Asian language text, you will need to separately download and install one or more of the Asian language font packs that are available on the Adobe Web site (www.adobe.com). Fonts are available for Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Japanese, and Korean languages.
  • Page 12 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 12 To set preferences: Choose File > Preferences, and then choose the type of preference you want to change: General preferences define a default page layout, a default magnification level, a color management system, and other basic options. For more infor-...
  • Page 13 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 13 Customizing resources for your personal use (UNIX) When Acrobat Reader starts, it searches for resources in the standard X Window System resource file (~/.Xdefaults). It uses all resources it finds to determine the proper setup. If it finds a resource more than once, it uses the last value found.
  • Page 14 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 14 You can specify your own plug-ins when starting Reader. By default, Acrobat Reader searches for personal plug-ins in the $HOME/plug_ins directory. You can specify a new default directory for personal plug-ins by changing the *userPlugInPath label.
  • Page 15 Editing your user configuration file gives you access to the fonts. The PSRESOURCEPATH variable looks for UNIX PostScript Resource (.upr) files in the location at which you point it. The .upr files are created when Type1 fonts are installed. If you have installed Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop , the ®...
  • Page 16 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 16 # PSRESOURCEPATH=<font_location>:: 3 Restart Acrobat Reader. Magnifying and reducing the page view The minimum and maximum zoom levels available depend on the current page size. If you magnify a page to a size larger than the window, use the hand tool to move the page around so that you can view all the areas on it.
  • Page 17 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 17 Select the zoom-out tool , and click the page. Select the zoom-out tool, and drag to draw a marquee the size you want the reduced page to be. Click the Magnification button in the status bar, and choose a magnifi- cation level.
  • Page 18 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 18 To return a page to its actual size: Click the Actual Size button , or choose View > Actual Size. The actual size for a PDF page is typically 100%, but the document creator may have set it to another magnification level.
  • Page 19 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 19 In Single Page layout, the Edit > Select All command selects all text on the current page. In Continuous and Continuous - Facing layouts, it selects all text in the PDF document. To set page layout:...
  • Page 20 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 20 To set a default view: Choose File > Preferences > General. Define a default page layout, a default magnification level, a color management system, and other basic options, and click OK: Default Page Layout sets a page layout used for scrolling when you first open a document.
  • Page 21 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 21 Smooth Text And Images smooths the edges of text and monochrome images to minimize the contrast between the background and the text or image. This sometimes improves the quality of the display on-screen, especially with larger text sizes.
  • Page 22 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 22 Max “Fit Visible” sets the maximum magnification level for the Fit Visible view and for viewing articles. Color chooses a color management system for interpreting color accurately across devices. Allow Background Downloading allows a PDF document to continue downloading from the Web, even after the first requested page displays on-...
  • Page 23 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 23 Go To View link. If a linked document is open when a Go To View link to it from another document is activated, the document remains open in a separate window. Note: To override this setting, either selected or deselected, you can press Ctrl (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) when clicking a link.
  • Page 24 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 24 Reading documents in Full Screen view In Full Screen view, PDF pages fill the entire screen; the menu bar, command bar, tool bar, status bar, and window controls are hidden. A document creator can set a PDF document to open in Full Screen view, or you can set the view for yourself.
  • Page 25 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 25 Setting Full Screen preferences Choose File > Preferences > Full Screen to set the characteristics of the Full Screen view. These settings apply to any document you open in Full Screen view and that does not have its own Full Screen settings.
  • Page 26 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 26 3 Choose the appearance options: Background Color specifies the window’s background color. If you choose Custom, the system color palette is displayed. See your computer’s user guide for instructions on setting a custom color.
  • Page 27 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 27 Choosing a Web browser for Weblinks When you click a Weblink in a PDF document, the default browser opens for you to view the linked document. Before this happens, however, you have to identify the default browser to Acrobat Reader. You can also choose to show or hide the Web browser button and link information and status.
  • Page 28 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 28 Displaying information about a document The Document Info submenu of the File menu contains commands that display information about a document. To display document information: Choose File > Document Info, and then choose a type of document info: General displays basic creation information about the PDF document.
  • Page 29 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 29 Modified indicates the date and time the document was last modified. Optimized indicates whether the file has been optimized. (Optimized files can be downloaded one page at a time from a Web server.) File Size indicates the size of the PDF file.
  • Page 30 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 30 Getting information about security settings The Security Information dialog box lists the security settings that have been assigned to the selected PDF file. A PDF document author can choose to restrict access to a file by requiring an open password or by restricting the use of certain tools and commands.
  • Page 31 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 31 To move up one line, press the Up Arrow key. Note: The Down and Up Arrow keys move you one line at a time when you are not in Fit in Window view. In Single page mode, these keys move you one page at a time if the entire page fits in the window.
  • Page 32 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 32 Choose Document > Go To Page, type the page number, and click OK. If the Use Logical Page Numbers option is selected in General preferences, and your document’s page numbers are different from the page position in the PDF file, you can enter the page-position number in parentheses in Go To Page to...
  • Page 33 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 33 Browsing with thumbnails A thumbnail is a miniature view of each document page, which you can display in the overview area. You can use a thumbnail to jump quickly to a page and to adjust the view of the current page.
  • Page 34 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 34 Browsing with bookmarks Bookmarks can mark parts of a document for quick access, link to page views in other documents, link to the Web, play a movie or sound, enter an article, or reset or submit a form.
  • Page 35 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 35 Following links Links can connect parts of a document, jump to other PDF documents, open another application file, go to a location on the Web, play a movie or sound, enter an article, hide or show an annotation, import form data, or reset or submit a form.
  • Page 36 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 36 Retracing your steps You can retrace your viewing path through a document or a series of documents. To retrace your viewing path: Do one or more of the following: To retrace your path within a PDF document, click the Go To Previous View button in the command bar, or choose Document >...
  • Page 37 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 37 To read an article: 1 Do one of the following: Show the Articles palette. Then double-click the article’s icon in the palette to start reading at the beginning of the article. Select the hand tool .
  • Page 38 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 38 Finding words You can use the Find command to find a complete word or part of a word in the current PDF document. Acrobat Reader looks for the word by reading every word on every page in the file, including text in form fields.
  • Page 39 Find text box.) Reviewing annotations The annotations feature of Adobe Acrobat 4.0 lets a user attach comments to an existing document. These comments can be in the form of notes, text, audio, stamps, files, graphic markups, and text markups. In Reader, you can open annotations and review their contents;...
  • Page 40 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 40 2 Select a font style from the Font menu. 3 Enter a number for the Font Size or choose a size from the pop-up menu. 4 Click OK. Playing movies or sounds Windows and Mac OS viewers can play movies and sounds added to a PDF document.

  • Page 41: Filling Out Forms

    Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 41 Viewing documents with digital signatures Acrobat Reader 4.0 allows you to view and print PDF documents with digital signatures; it does not allow you to validate digital signatures or digitally sign PDF documents. A digital signature may appear in a document as text, a graphic, or a handwritten facsimile.
  • Page 42 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 42 Press Shift+Tab to accept the form field change and go to the previous form field. Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) to accept the form field change and deselect the current form field.

  • Page 43: Copying And Pasting Text And Graphics To Another Application

    Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 43 Select a Reset Form button, if one exists. Exit the Acrobat viewer without saving the file, and start again. Clicking the Reload button or the Go Back button, or following a link in a World Wide Web browser window, does not clear a form.
  • Page 44 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 44 To select multiple columns of text (horizontally), hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you drag across the width of the document. To select a column of text (vertically), hold down Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Option+Command (Mac OS) as you drag the length of the document.

  • Page 45: Using Pdf On The Web

    Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 45 2 Drag a rectangle around the graphic you want to copy. To deselect the graphic and start over, click anywhere outside the selected graphic. 3 Choose Edit > Copy to copy the graphic to the Clipboard.
  • Page 46 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 46 The browser supports PDF viewing, but the PDF file is not optimized or the server does not support byte-serving, so the entire PDF file downloads to the machine with the browser and then appears within the browser window.
  • Page 47 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 47 Page-at-a-time downloading With page-at-a-time downloading (byte-serving), the Web server sends only the requested page of information to the user, not the entire PDF document. As a reader of the PDF document, you do not have to do anything to make this happen;...
  • Page 48 When you view a PDF document in a Web browser, all of the Acrobat Reader tools are available in the browser. In Windows, you can click the two small vertical lines (next to the Adobe icon at the left of the toolbar) to minimize or maximize the toolbar.
  • Page 49 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 49 Searching on the Web Some Web search engines index PDF documents as well as HTML documents on Web servers. And some search engines support PDF search highlighting, although not all search engines that support PDF indexing support search highlighting.
  • Page 50 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 50 If an embedded PDF file is not configured to open in a separate window, you can interact with the file in a browser compatible with Internet Explorer, but not one compatible with Netscape Navigator. For example, links would not be active in a PDF file displayed embedded in HTML in Netscape Navigator, but...
  • Page 51 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 51 To use Acrobat Reader as a helper application in Windows: 1 Choose File > Preferences > General. 2 Select Web Browser Integration and click OK. Note: This is not necessary in Mac OS. Installing the Web browser plug-in Browsers compatible with Netscape Navigator need the nppdf32.dll file...

  • Page 52: Calibrated Color

    Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 52 To install the Web browser plug-in (UNIX): Run <installdir>/Browsers/netscape. Calibrated color The Portable Document Format allows for device-independent color (DIC) specifications. DIC allows creators of PDF documents to specify the colors of objects in page descriptions independent of the color characteristics of desti- nation monitors or printers.
  • Page 53 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0 Page 53 Images can be edited in a device-independent color space which is larger than the color space of the output device, such as a computer monitor, a TV screen, film, or a four-color press. Images can then be saved with profiles that contain information describing the characteristics of the source and output color devices.
  • Page 54 The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe Systems Incorpo- rated assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual.

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