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Application Startup
Determines whether the application splash screen appears each time the application starts.
Show Splash Screen
Ensures that only Adobe-certified third-party plug-ins are loaded.
Use Only Certified Plug-Ins
Page Display preferences
Default Layout And Zoom
Resolution
Uses the system settings for monitor resolution.
Use System Setting
Sets the monitor resolution.
Custom Resolution
Rendering
Specifies the kind of text-smoothing to apply: None, For Monitor, or For Laptop/LCD.
Smooth Text
Applies smoothing to remove abrupt angles in lines.
Smooth Line Art
Applies smoothing to minimize abrupt changes in images.
Smooth Images
Specifies whether the application uses or ignores local fonts installed on your system. When
Use Local Fonts
deselected, substitute fonts are used for any font not embedded in the PDF. If a font cannot be substituted, the text
appears as bullets and an error message appears.
(Appears only if your computer hardware supports 2D GPU.) Speeds up zooming,
Use 2D GPU Acceleration
scrolling, and redrawing of page content, and speeds the rendering and manipulation of 2D PDF content. This option
is deselected by default.
Note: If the 2D GPU Acceleration option appears on the Page Display preferences but is not available, you may need to
update your GPU card driver to enable this hardware feature. Contact your card vendor or computer manufacturer for
an updated driver.
Places the next page in a buffer before the current page is viewed to reduce the time required to page
Use Page Cache
through a document.
Page Content And Information
Displays large images. If your system is slow to display image-intensive pages, you can deselect
Show Large Images
this option.
Turns overprint preview on or off. The Overprint Preview mode lets you see (on-screen) the
Overprint Preview
effects of ink aliasing in the printed output. A printer or service provider may create an ink alias is a document
contains two similar spot colors and only one is required, for example.
Displays any art, trim, or bleed boxes defined for a document.
Show Art, Trim, & Bleed Boxes
Displays the grid behind transparent objects.
Show Transparency Grid
Enables the Number Pages command for matching the position of the page in the PDF
Use Logical Page Numbers
to the number printed on the page. A page number, followed by the page position in parentheses, appears in the Page
Navigation toolbar and in the Go To Page and Print dialog boxes—for example, i (1 of 1) if the printed number of
the first page is i. If this option is not selected, pages are numbered with arabic numbers starting at 1. Selecting this
option helps prevent unexpected behavior when clicking Back or Go Back in your web browser.
Displays the page measurements beside the horizontal scroll bar.
Always Show Document Page Size