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The following information is from the Adobe Acrobat Reader Help File and contains
the basic information you need to open, navigate, and print PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat Reader. To view the complete
Help File, select Reader Help from the Acrobat Reader Help menu.
Note: If you do not already have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your
computer, you must download
and install Adobe
Acrobat Reader before you will be able to view
or print PDF documents.
Opening PDF Documents
To open a PDF document from a Web page, double-click the document
title. If the PDF does not open, or if it does not display
correctly, view Having Problems
Loading/Printing PDFs.
Adjusting the View of PDF Documents
To increase magnification, select the zoom-in tool  , and click the page.
To decrease magnification, select the zoom-out tool  , and click the page.
Setting Page Layout
You can use three page layouts when viewing PDF documents: Single Page, (one page at a time);
Continuous, (continuous vertical column); or Continuous - Facing, (side by side).
To modify the page layout, click the Single Page button
 , the
Continuous button  , or
the Continuous – Facing button 
in the status bar at the bottom of the Acrobat Reader window,
or choose Single Page, Continuous, or Continuous - Facing from the View menu.
Browsing with Bookmarks
Acrobat Reader allows you to move to specific places in PDF documents using Bookmarks
that take you to specific pre-defined locations within the document.
To browse using a bookmark:
- Show the Bookmarks palette. You may need to choose Window > Show Bookmarks to
open the palette or click the Bookmarks tab to bring the palette to the front of its group.
- To jump to a topic using its bookmark, click the bookmark’s icon or text in the
palette.
The bookmark for the part of the document currently showing is boldfaced.
If the navigation pane disappears when you click a bookmark, click the Show/Hide Navigation Pane
button on the command bar. Deselect Hide After Use in the navigation pane’s palette menu
(the triangle next to the name Bookmarks at the top of the palette) if you want the navigation
pane to remain open after you click a bookmark.
When a parent bookmark is collapsed, it has a
plus sign. If the bookmark you want to click is hidden in a collapsed parent, click the plus
sign next to the parent to show it.
Printing PDF Documents
- If you don’t need to print the entire document, do one of the following:
- To select pages to print, click thumbnails in the Thumbnails
palette. You can Ctrl-click thumbnails to select non-contiguous
pages, or Shift-click to select a contiguous range of pages.
You can also select a contiguous page range in the Print dialog box.
- To select an area on a page to print, select the graphic select tool
 ,
and drag on the page to draw the area you want.
- Choose File > Page Setup to set general printing options. The available
options will vary with different printers and drivers. See your printer driver
documentation for details.
- 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:
- Selected Pages Or Selected Graphic prints only the pages or page
area you selected before opening the Print dialog box.
- Page From/To prints a range of pages.
- Expand small pages to paper size enlarges the PDF file to fit
the paper size specified in the printer properties.
- Print As Image prints the pages as bitmap images. You may want to
print pages as images if normal printing does not produce the
desired results.
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