Reader

Contents
• Getting Started
• Using Acrobat Reader
• Searching Catalog Indexes
Getting Started
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Chapter 1
Getting Started
T
he Acrobat® Reader with Search allows anyone to view, navigate,
and print documents in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
It also allows anyone to perform full-text searches of PDF document
collections that have been indexed using Acrobat Catalog (included with
Adobe Acrobat® 4.0).
You may make and distribute unlimited copies of Acrobat Reader with Search ,
including copies for commercial distribution, as long as each copy you make
and distribute includes all of the following:
■
The Acrobat Reader with Search installer, exactly as provided by Adobe
■
The Acrobat Reader with Search Electronic End User License Agreement
■
Copyright and other proprietary notices included in Acrobat Reader with
Search
■
The following attribution statement on any media and packaging that
includes Reader:
“Acrobat® Reader with Search Copyright © 1987-1999 Adobe Systems Incorpo-
rated. All rights reserved. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, and the Acrobat
logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.”
Getting Started
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The Acrobat Reader with Search Electronic End User License Agreement and
proprietary notices are contained in the Reader with Search or Reader with
Search installer program. You are expressly prohibited from modifying or
creating your own installer for the Acrobat Reader with Search software. Details
on the terms of use for the Acrobat Reader products are found in the Acrobat
Reader with Search 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 with Search. See the Adobe Web site http://
www.adobe.com for details.
Using Acrobat Reader
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Chapter 2
T
he Adobe Acrobat Reader allows anyone to view, navigate, and print
documents in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). You may also
fill out forms created with Adobe Acrobat in your Web browser, view
documents with digital signatures, and view PDF documents on the web in a
variety of browser viewing scenarios.
Opening PDF documents

The creator of a PDF document can set the document to open in a variety of
ways. For example, a document might open to a particular page number, at a
particular magnification, or with the bookmarks or thumbnails visible.
If a document is set to open in Full Screen view, the tool bar, menu bar, and
window controls are not visible. You can exit Full Screen view by pressing
Escape, if your preferences are set this way, or by pressing Ctrl+L (Microsoft®
Windows® and UNIX®) or Command+L (Mac OS). For more on this view, see
Reading documents in Full Screen view.
To open a PDF document:
Do one of the following:
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■ 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.
■ Choose the document’s filename from the File menu. The menu lists the four
PDF documents you last opened.
■ Double-click the file icon in your file system.
Note: In Mac OS, you may not be able to open a PDF document created in
Windows by double-clicking the icon. If double-clicking the icon in Mac OS
does not open the document, use File > Open in Acrobat Reader to open the
document, close the document, and try again. After you’ve used the Open
command once on the document, you’ll be able to open the document next
time by double-clicking.
In Acrobat Reader 4.0, you can view and print PDF documents that contain
Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese text if you use
the appropriate language kit at installation.
To display a list of all Acrobat Reader command-line options (UNIX), start the
Acrobat Reader product with the -help option. For example:
acroread -help
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Viewing PDF documents on the Web

You can view PDF documents that are on the World Wide Web or an intranet
using a Web browser. Every document on the Web is identified by a unique
address called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). When a PDF document is
stored on the Web, you can click a URL link to it to open the document in your
Web browser.
Reading PDF documents in a Web browser

In Win and Mac OS, PDF documents can display in Web browsers compatible
with Netscape® Navigator® 4.0 (or later) or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (or
later). The necessary plug-ins are automatically installed when you install
Acrobat Reader. For information on getting your browser ready, see Installing
the Web browser plug-in. (If pages of your PDF document appear blank when
viewed in a Web browser, you may be using an early version of a Web server. Try
saving the PDF file locally, and viewing it using Acrobat Reader.)
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.
Note: Many keyboard commands are mapped to the Web browser rather than
to Acrobat Reader, so some Acrobat Reader keyboard shortcuts may not be
available in the browser window.
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In UNIX, PDF documents can display in Web browsers compatible with

Netscape Navigator 4.0 (or later) only. To set up Netscape compatibility, launch
Netscape using the Netscape script located in the Acrobat 4.0/Browsers
directory. Follow the instructions in the INSTGUIDE.TXT file to link your
Netscape browser to the Acrobat 4.0 Reader with Search application.
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
container application such as Microsoft Word, Excel®, or PowerPoint®.
To view an embedded PDF file:
1 Open the document into which the PDF document has been embedded.
2 Double-click the Acrobat icon in the document. Acrobat Reader launches
and displays the activated PDF document.
Note: You cannot make changes or save while in Acrobat Reader.
Printing PDF documents

You can print and view PDF documents from Acrobat Reader.
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To print a PDF document:

1 Use File > Page Setup to set general printing options. The available options
will vary with different printers and drivers. See your printer driver documen-
tation for details.
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:
■ Selected Pages Or Selected Graphic (Windows) or Selected Thumbnails/
Graphic (Mac OS) prints only the pages or page area you selected before
opening the Print dialog box.
■ Page From/To prints a range of pages. In Windows and UNIX, if the Use
Logical Page Numbers option is selected in General preferences, you can enter
page-position numbers in parentheses to print those pages. For example, if the
first page of a document is numbered “iii”, you can enter (1) to print that page.
■ Annotations prints annotation graphics on the pages. The annotations are
printed as closed, even if they are open on the pages online.

■ Fit To Page scales pages up or down (and if necessary rotates them) to fit the
paper size currently installed in your printer. This is not available in most other
applications.
■Print As Image (Windows and UNIX) prints the pages as bitmap images. (In
Mac OS, this is set in the Print Method pop-up menu.) You may want to print
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pages as images if they have too many fonts to print as PostScript® or if the
pages use non-embedded Asian fonts not available on your system.
■ Print Method, in Windows and UNIX, specifies which level of PostScript to
generate for the pages. Choose the level of PostScript appropriate for your
printer. In Mac 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. (When you send
PDF to a printer, let the printer driver specify what level of PostScript to use.)
This is available only when you choose PostScript in the Print Method pop-up
menu; if you choose PostScript in the menu and do not select this option, Level
2 PostScript is used.
■ Download Asian Fonts downloads Asian fonts to a PostScript printer. Select
this option if you want to print a PDF document with Asian fonts but do not
have the fonts installed on the printer and do not have the fonts embedded in
the document. (Embedded fonts are downloaded whether or not this option is
selected.) You can use this option with a PostScript Level 2 or higher printer, or
a Level 1 printer that supports Type 0 font extensions.
Note: Some fonts cannot be downloaded to a printer, either because the font is
a bitmap or because embedding of the font is restricted in that document. In
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these cases, a substitute font is used for printing, and the printed output may
not match the screen display exactly.
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. If there are no suitable fonts on the printer, Courier is used for the text.
If you have a PostScript Level 1 printer that does not support Type 0 font exten-
sions, or if Download Asian Fonts does not produce the results you want, print
the PDF document as a bitmap image. Printing a document as an image may
take longer than using a substituted printer font.
■ Use Printer Halftone Screens prints halftones using the printer’s halftone
screens. If you do not select this option, the halftones are printed using
halftone information from the PDF file.
Note: If Use Printer Halftone Screens is not selected, and if the halftone infor-
mation sent to the printer from the PDF file is not appropriate for that printer,
the screens may produce “muddy” images.
Printing PDF documents from the command line (UNIX)

Besides printing directly from within Reader by choosing File > Print, you can
print PDF files from the command line. The syntax for printing from the
command line is:
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acroread -toPostScript <options> <pdf filename>

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.
For example, to print the file sample.pdf to the default printer, type the
following:
% cat sample.pdf | acroread -toPostScript | lp
You can use <options> to control your print job from the command line.
Options available to Reader are the following.
To create a Language Level 1, 2, or 3 file:
-level1 or -level2 or -level3
Note: -level2 is the default setting.
To print a PDF file to a differently named PostScript file:
-pairs <pdf filename1> <PostScript filename1> <pdf
filename2> <PostScript filename2> ...
For example, to print sample.pdf to test.ps, you would use the following syntax:
acroread -toPostScript -pairs sample.pdf test.ps
To use the printer’s default halftone screens instead of custom halftone

screens included in the file:
-printerhalftones
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To create a binary PostScipt file:

-binary
To download fonts once per document rather than once per page:
-fast
To print a range of pages:

-start <page number> -end <page number>
To print the document in a landscape orientation:

-landscape
To reverse the page order of the output:

-reverse
To output only odd-numbered pages:

-odd
To output only even-numbered pages:

-even
To shrink, expand or rotate a document, as necessary, to fit the page on

which it will be printed:
-shrink
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To scale the document:

-scale <scale factor>
To control the page size:

-size <page size>
where width and height can be numbers or letter, tabloid, ledger,
legal, executive, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, or wxh (custom paper
size where w is the integer width in points and h is the integer height in
points).
To turn off the print annotations feature:
-annotsOff
Printing and viewing PDF documents containing Asian

fonts
If you are working on an operating system that does not have support for Asian
languages, in order to enable the viewing and printing of 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.
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Setting preferences
Preferences are settings that modify the performance, interface, and behavior
of an application. For the most part, the preference settings of Acrobat Reader
determine the view of a document on-screen for your copy of Reader. Some
of these settings can be overridden for a particular PDF document by a
document author.
In UNIX, you can define resources in the .Xdefaults file. See Customizing
resources for your personal use (UNIX) for information. You can also give
Acrobat Reader access to more fonts systemwide or for individual users. See
Giving Acrobat Reader access to fonts (UNIX) for information.
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-
mation, see Setting a default view.
■ Annotations preferences specify a font and point size for viewing note text.
For more information, see Setting annotation preferences.
■ Full Screen preferences determine how a document appears and behaves in
Full Screen view. For more information, see Setting Full Screen preferences.
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■ Weblink preferences determine the behavior of information display for

Weblinks and provide a way to choose which browser to launch when
activating a Weblink. For more information, see Choosing a Web browser for
Weblinks.
Other Acrobat Reader plug-ins may add new preference items to this list. See
the plug-in’s documentation for information.
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.
By editing the resource file, you can customize Acrobat Reader. For your
changes to take effect, you must restart your windowing system.
The following sections describe some general Acrobat Reader resources that
you can change in the .Xdefaults file:
■ Plug-in location (UNIX).
■ Starting multiple Acrobat viewers (UNIX).
■ Fonts for bookmarks (UNIX).
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Plug-in location (UNIX)

When Acrobat Reader starts, it searches for plug-ins in the directory
$ACRO_INSTALL_DIR/$ACRO_CONFIG/plug_ins. You can specify a new default
directory by changing the *systemPlugInPath label. The *systemPlugInPath
label specifies the location of the plug-ins used by all users of Acrobat Reader:
*systemPlugInPath /net/Acrobat/Sun_OS4/doc_dept/plug-ins
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. For example:
*userPlugInPath $HOME/Acrobat/plug_ins
Starting multiple Acrobat viewers (UNIX)

If you want to open a new Reader program and run multiple viewers, you must
specify -useFrontEnd Program from the command line. By default, the most
recently opened viewer is the one in use.
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Fonts for bookmarks (UNIX)

If you want to change the default font size used for bookmarks, you can change
the value of *bookmarkFontSize. The font size is expressed in points. If you
want to change the font family, you can change the value of *bookmark-
FontName. For example:
*bookmarkFontSize 10
*bookmarkFontName Courier
Giving Acrobat Reader access to fonts (UNIX)

If a font is referenced in a PDF file, but not embedded, and Acrobat Reader finds
that font on the system opening the file, Acrobat Reader will use the font on
the system to display the text. You can give Reader access to your installed
Type 1 fonts by setting the PSRESOURCEPATH variable in the viewer launch
script or in your user configuration file. Editing the launch script, usually done
by a system administrator, gives all users who access that copy of the viewer
access to the fonts. Editing your user configuration file gives you access to
the fonts.
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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
PSRESOURCEPATH is already set for the individual and Reader will find it.
To give access to fonts systemwide:
1 Open Acrobat4/bin/acroread in a text editor.
2 Enter the following command:
# PSRESOURCEPATH=<font_location>::
3 Restart Acrobat Reader.
To give an individual access to fonts:
1 Open your user configuration file in a text editor.
2 Set the PSRESOURCEPATH environment variable:
# PSRESOURCEPATH=<font_location>::
3 Restart Acrobat Reader.
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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. Moving a PDF
page with the hand tool is like moving a piece of paper on a desk with your
hand.
To increase magnification:
■ Select the zoom-in tool , and click the page.
■ Select the zoom-in tool, and drag to draw a rectangle, called a marquee,
around the area to magnify.

■ Click the Magnification button in the status bar, and choose a magnifi-
cation level.
To decrease magnification:
■ 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.
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■ Click the Magnification button in the status bar, and choose a magnifi-
cation level.
Note: When the zoom-in tool is selected, you can press Ctrl (Windows and
UNIX) or Option (Mac OS) while clicking or dragging to zoom out instead of in.
When the zoom-out tool is selected, press Ctrl or Option to zoom in.
To change the magnification level using a thumbnail:
Position the pointer over the lower right corner of the red page-view box in the
thumbnail until the pointer changes to a double arrow . Then drag the
corner of the box to reduce or expand the view of the page.
To resize a page to fit the window:
■ To resize the page to fit entirely in the window, click the Fit in Window button
, or choose View > Fit in Window.
■ To resize the page to fit the width of the window, click the Fit Width button
, or choose View > Fit Width. Part of the page may be out of view.
■ To resize the page so that its text and graphics fit the width of the window,
choose View > Fit Visible. Part of the page may be out of view.
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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.
Setting the page layout

You can use three page layouts when viewing PDF documents:
■ Single Page layout displays one page in the document pane at a time.
■ Continuous layout arranges the pages in a continuous vertical column.
■ Continuous - Facing layout arranges the pages side by side. This configu-
ration accommodates a two-page spread display and multiple-page viewing in

the window. If a document has more than two pages, the first page is displayed
on the right to ensure proper display of two-page spreads.
Single Page layout, Continuous layout, Continuous - Facing layout

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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:
■ Click the Page Layout button in the status bar, and choose a page layout.
■ Choose Single Page, Continuous, or Continuous - Facing from the View
menu.
To see two-page spreads most efficiently, use the Continuous - Facing page
layout, and choose View > Fit Width.
Setting a default view

You can set a default viewing magnification, a default page layout, and other
viewing defaults in the General Preferences dialog box. These settings apply to
any document that has been set to open in the default view.
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:
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■ Default Page Layout sets a page layout used for scrolling when you first open
a document. You can display pages one at a time as you scroll, continuously
one above the next, or continuously side by side.
■ Page Units specifies a unit of measure for displaying page size in the status
bar and in the Crop dialog box.
■ Substitution Fonts specifies multiple master fonts that Acrobat Reader uses
to substitute for Type 1 and TrueType fonts not available on your computer. If
PDF documents do not print because of insufficient printer memory, choose
Sans from the Substitution Fonts pop-up menu. If you change this setting, the
change takes effect the next time you start Windows or Mac OS.
■ Application Language (Win and Mac OS) sets a language for the Acrobat
Reader user interface. The pop-up menu shows the languages you installed
with Acrobat Reader. If you choose a different language, the change takes
effect the next time you start the application.
■ Use Greek Text Below displays text below the designated point size as gray
lines (or greeked text) to speed display time.

■ 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.
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■ Display Large Images displays images larger than 128K. If you do not select
this option, a gray box appears in place of a large image. Selecting this option
can slow down paging through a document.
■ Display Page To Edge prints PDF documents to the edge of the pages. If you
do not select this option, pages from PDF documents are printed with a white
border, as defined by the printer driver.
■ Use Logical Page Numbers allows you to set page numbering in a PDF
document using the Document > Number Pages command. You typically do
this when you want PDF page numbering to match the numbering printed on
the pages. A page’s number, followed by the page position in parentheses,
appears in the status bar and in the Go To Page, Delete Pages, and Print dialog
boxes. For example, if the first page in a document is numbered “i”, it might
appear as “i(1 of 10)”. If this option is not selected, Acrobat ignores page
numbering information in documents and numbers pages using arabic
numbers starting at 1.
■ Default Zoom sets the magnification level for PDF documents when they are
first opened. This affects only documents that have Default set for their magni-
fication in Document Info > Open.
■ 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.
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■ Allow Background Downloading allows a PDF document to continue

downloading from the Web, even after the first requested page displays on-
screen in a Netscape Navigator-compatible browser. If you do not select this
option, only the requested page downloads to your computer, and other pages
are downloaded as you request them.
Note: You will get unexpected results from the Go Back command in your Web
browser if you do not select this option. For example, if you link to another
document from a partially downloaded PDF document and then want to
return to that document by using Go Back, you return to the first page of the
PDF document, even if you were not on the first page. This option should
alleviate most cases of unexpected Go Back behavior in your Web browser.
■ Display Splash Screen At Startup shows the splash screen each time Acrobat
Reader is started.
■ Display Open Dialog At Startup shows the Open dialog box each time
Acrobat Reader is started.
■ Open Cross-Doc Links In Same Window opens linked PDF documents and
views in one window to minimize the number of windows open in Acrobat
Reader. If you do not select this option, a new window is opened for each new
Go To View link. If a linked document is open when a Go To View link to it from
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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 UNIX) or Option (Mac OS) when clicking a link.
■ Use Page Cache places the next page in a buffer even before you view the
page in Acrobat Reader. This reduces the amount of time it takes to page
through a document.
■ Allow File Open Links warns you of security risks when you open a file in
another application from a link in a PDF document and gives you a chance to
cancel the operation. If this option is not selected, links to files in other applica-
tions are disabled.
■ Web Browser Integration (Windows) displays PDF documents in your Web
browser when viewing PDF documents on the Web. If you do not select this
option, the documents display in Acrobat Reader as a helper application to the
Web browser. See Viewing PDF documents on the Web for more information.
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. Full Screen view is often used for presentations, sometimes with
automatic page advancement and transitions.
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The pointer remains active in Full Screen view so that you can click links and
open notes. You can use keyboard shortcuts for navigational and magnification
commands, even though the menus and tool bar are not visible. You can also
set preferences to define how Full Screen view appears on your system.
To read a document in Full Screen view:
Choose View > Full Screen. Press Return or the Down or Right Arrow key to
page through the document. Press Shift-Return or the Up or Left Arrow key to
page backwards through the document.
Note: If you’re using Mac OS and have two monitors installed, the Full Screen
view of a page appears on only one screen. To page through the document,
click the screen displaying the page in Full Screen mode.
To exit Full Screen view:
Press the Escape key, if your Full Screen preferences are defined this way, or
press Ctrl+L (Windows and UNIX) or Command+L (Mac OS).
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.
The default settings are usually acceptable and do not need to be changed.
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To set preferences for Full Screen view:

1 Choose File > Preferences > Full Screen.
2 Select the navigation options:
■ Advance Every specifies whether to advance automatically from page to
page every set number of seconds. You can page through a document using
mouse or keyboard commands even if automatic paging is selected.
■ Advance On Any Click lets you page through a PDF document by clicking the
mouse. If this is not selected, you can page through a document by pressing
Return, Shift-Return (to go backwards), or the arrow keys.
■ Loop After Last Page lets you page through a PDF document continuously,
returning to the first page after the last. This option is typically used for setting
up kiosk displays.
■ Escape Key Exits lets you exit Full Screen view by pressing the Escape key. If
this is not selected, you can exit by pressing Ctrl+L (Windows and UNIX) or
Command+L (Mac OS).
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.
■ Default Transition specifies the transition effect to display when you switch
pages in Full Screen view.
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■ Mouse Cursor specifies whether to show or hide the cursor in Full Screen
view.
■ Zoom To (Mac OS) selects a monitor to use for Full Screen view when two
monitors are installed. You can choose Main (for the monitor with the menu
bar), Largest Intersection (for the monitor that displays the largest portion of
the document), Deepest (for the monitor with the most colors), Widest (for the
monitor with the greatest horizontal resolution), Tallest (for the monitor with
the greatest vertical resolution), or Largest Area (for the monitor with the most
pixels).
4 Click OK.
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.
1 Choose File > Preferences > Weblink.
2 From the menu, choose whether to display link information below the
pointer when the pointer is over a Weblink. You can display a URL for a Weblink
always, never, or only when you press Ctrl (Windows and UNIX) or Option
(Mac OS) while pointing on the link.
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3 Set the following options for displaying Web information:

■ Show Toolbar Button shows the Web Browser button in the command
bar. You can click this button to open the Web browser from Acrobat
Reader.
■ Show Progress Dialog displays status information such as how much data is
being downloaded when you click a Weblink.
4 Click Browse (Windows and UNIX) or Select (Mac OS), locate the Web
browser you want to use, and click Open.
5 Choose the connection type that matches your browser. If your browser is
not listed, choose the Standard connection type.
6 Click OK.
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. For
more information, see Getting General information about a document.

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■ Fonts displays font usage information. For more information, see Getting
information about fonts used in a document.
■ Security displays the document’s security settings. For more information, see
Getting information about security settings.
Getting General information about a document

The General Info dialog box provides title, subject, author, and keyword infor-
mation if it has been provided. It also displays attributes set by Acrobat,
PDFWriter, or Distiller® in this dialog box:
■ Creator indicates the program that created the original document (if known).
■ Producer indicates the application or driver that produced the PDF
document.
■ Created indicates the date and time the document was created.
■ 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.
Note: The title is the document’s title, not necessarily the filename (unless the
title and filename are identical). The title and filename appear in the title bar in
the document window.
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Getting information about fonts used in a document

The Font Information dialog box lists the original font used in the original
document, font type, font encoding, and the font used in Reader to display the
original font. Only the fonts encountered in the document so far are listed. To
see a list of all fonts used in the entire document, click the List All
Fonts button.
You can use the Font Information dialog box to see what fonts were used in the
original document and whether the same fonts are being used as you view it. If
substitute fonts are being used and you aren’t satisfied with their appearance,
you may want to install the original fonts on your system or ask the document
creator to recreate the document with the original fonts embedded in it.
While Acrobat Reader creates a substitute font in Mac OS, the pointer appears
as a spinning letter a.
Getting information about security settings

The Security Information dialog box lists the security settings that have been
assigned to the selected PDF file.
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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. If a file
requires an open password, you must enter the password to view the file. When
a file has restricted access, any restricted tools and menu items are dimmed.
Paging through a document

Acrobat Reader provides buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and menu commands
for paging through PDF documents.
To go to another page:
■ To go to the next page, click the Next Page button in the command bar or
status bar, press the Right Arrow key, press Ctrl (Windows or UNIX) or Option
(Mac OS) and the Down Arrow key, or choose Document > Next Page.
■ To go to the previous page, click the Previous Page button in the
command bar or status bar, press the Left Arrow key, press Ctrl (Windows or
UNIX) or Option (Mac OS) and the Up Arrow key, or choose Document >
Previous Page.
■ To move down one line, press the Down Arrow key.
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■ 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 page fills the entire screen.
■ To move down one screenful, press Page Down or Return.
■ To move up one screenful, press Page Up or Shift+Return.
■ To go to the first page, click the First Page button in the command bar or
status bar, press the Home key, or choose Document > First Page.
■ To go to the last page, click the Last Page button in the command bar or
the status bar, press the End key, or choose Document > Last Page.
To jump to a page by its number:
■ Select the current page number in the status bar, type the page number to
jump to, and press Return.
If the Use Logical Page Numbers option is selected in General preferences, and
if your document’s page numbers are different from the page position in the
PDF file, the page position appears in parentheses in the status bar. For
example, if a first page is numbered “iii”, the numbering might appear as “iii(1 of
10)”. You can double-click inside the parentheses, edit the page-position
number, and press Return to go to that page.
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■ 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
go to that page.
■ Drag the vertical scroll bar until the number of the page you want to jump to
is displayed.
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 > Go Back for each step
back. Or click the Go to Next View button , or choose Document > Go
Forward for each step forward.
■ To retrace your viewing path through other PDF documents, choose
Document > Go Back Doc for each step back or Document > Go Forward Doc
for each step forward. Or hold down Shift, and click the Go Back or Go Forward
button. This command opens the other PDF documents if the documents are
closed.
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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.
To browse with a thumbnail:
1 Show the Thumbnails palette. You may need to choose Window > Show
Thumbnails to open the palette or click the Thumbnails tab to bring the palette
to the front of its group.
2 Do one of the following:
■ To jump to another page, double-click the page’s thumbnail.
■ To display another part of the current page, position the pointer over the
edge of the page-view box in the page’s thumbnail until the pointer changes to
a hand tool . Then drag the box to move the view area.
Note: If thumbnails appear as gray boxes in the overview area, the document
author did not create them for you. You can still use the thumbnails without the
miniature views or you can ask the document author to create them for you.
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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.
To browse with a bookmark:
1 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.
2 To jump to a topic using its bookmark, click the bookmark’s icon or text in
the palette.
Note: Clicking a bookmark might perform an action, such as playing a movie,
instead of taking you to another location. It depends on how the bookmark
was defined.
The bookmark for the part of the document currently showing is boldfaced.
Bookmarks can be subordinate to other bookmarks in their hierarchy; a higher-
level bookmark in this relationship is the parent, and a lower-level bookmark is
the child. You can collapse a parent bookmark in the palette to hide all its
children. When a parent bookmark is collapsed, it has a plus sign (Windows) or
a triangle (Mac OS) next to it. If the bookmark you want to click is hidden in a
collapsed parent, click the plus sign or triangle next to the parent to show it.
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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.
To follow a link:
1 Select the hand tool , a zoom tool, or a selection tool.
2 Position the pointer over the linked area on the page until the pointer
changes to a hand with a pointing finger . (The hand has a plus sign in it if
the link points to the Web.) Then click the link.
Note: Clicking a link might perform an action, such as playing a movie, instead
of taking you to another location. It depends on how the link was defined.
Note: A Web browser must be chosen in your Weblink preferences to follow a
Weblink. See Choosing a Web browser for Weblinks for more information.
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:
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■ To retrace your path within a PDF document, click the Go To Previous View
button in the command bar, or choose Document > Go Back for each step
back. Or click the Go To Next View button , or choose Document > Go
Forward for each step forward.
■ To retrace your viewing path through other PDF documents, choose
Document > Go Back Doc for each step back or Document > Go Forward Doc
for each step forward. Or hold down Shift, and click the Go Back or Go Forward
button. This command opens the other PDF documents if the documents are
closed.
Reading articles
Articles connect related parts of a document by creating a reading path
through the document. Articles are usually created to make reading
documents with multi-column magazine articles easier.
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 . Then click in the article to start reading it at that
point, or press Ctrl (Windows and UNIX) or Option (Mac OS) and click anywhere
in the article to start reading at the beginning.
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2 The pointer changes to the follow article pointer . Navigate through the
article:
■ To go to the next page in the article, press Return or click.
■ To go to the previous page, press Shift-Return, or press Shift and click.
■ To go to the beginning of the article, press Ctrl (Windows or UNIX) or Option
(Mac OS) and click.
■ To exit the article before reaching the end, press Shift-Ctrl (Windows and
UNIX) or Shift-Option (Mac OS) and click.

3 When you reach the end of the article, the pointer changes to the end article
pointer . Press Return or click to return to the view displayed before you
starting reading the article.
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.
To find a word using the Find command:
1 Click the Find button , or choose Edit > Find.
2 Enter the text to find in the text box.
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3 Select search options if necessary:

■ Match Whole Word Only finds only occurrences of the complete word you
enter in the text box. For example, if you search for the word stick, the words
tick and sticky will not be highlighted.
■ Match Case finds only words that contain exactly the same capitalization you
enter in the text box.
■ Find Backwards starts the search from the current page and goes backwards
through the document.

4 Click Find. Acrobat Reader finds the next occurrence of the word.
To find the next occurrence of the word:
■ Choose Edit > Find Again.
■ Reopen the Find dialog box, and click Find Again. (The word must already be
in the Find text box.)
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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; you cannot edit the annotations, nor
can you launch file attachments or play sound annotations. Notes do not print
directly from the document that they annotate.
To review notes:
■ To open a note, double-click the note icon.
■ To close a note, click the close box in the upper left corner of the note
window. (If the note is selected, Mac OS users can also press Command+W.)
Setting annotation preferences

You can set the font and point size for annotations.
To set preferences for annotations:
1 Choose File > Preferences > Annotations.
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.
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4 Click OK.
Playing movies or sounds

Windows and Mac OS viewers can play movies and sounds added to a PDF
document. To play movies or sounds in Windows, your computer must have
the appropriate sound and video boards installed, and Apple QuickTime 2.0 or
later or the Microsoft Video for Windows software. In Mac OS, you need
QuickTime 2.0 or later.
To play a movie clip:
1 Select the hand tool .
2 Move the cursor over a movie. The cursor changes to a filmstrip.
3 Click to begin playing the clip.
4 Click again to stop playing, or press Escape.
Note: Movies and sounds can also play in a document if specified as an action
by a link, bookmark, form field, or page action.
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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.
Acrobat 4.0 offers full support for digital signatures (Windows).
Filling out forms

You can fill out forms in PDF documents in Acrobat Reader and submit them
across the Web if you are viewing PDF documents in your Web browser
window. Otherwise, print the form with the data from Reader.
To fill out a form:
1 Select the hand tool .
2 Position the pointer inside a form field, and click. The I-beam pointer allows
you to type text. The arrow pointer allows you to select a button, a check box, a
radio button, or an item from a list.
3 After entering text or selecting an item, check box, or radio button, do one
of the following:
■ Press Tab to accept the form field change and go to the next form field.
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■ 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.

In a multiline text form field, Enter or Return goes to the next line in the same
form field. You can use Enter on the keypad to accept a change and deselect
the current form field.
■ Press Escape to reject the form field change and deselect the current form
field.
Pressing Escape when you are in Full Screen mode causes you to exit Full
Screen mode. Pressing Escape a second time rejects the form field change and
deselects the current form field.
4 Once you have filled in the appropriate form fields, click the Submit Form
button, if one exists. The button may be named differently. Clicking this button
sends the form data to a database across the Web or over your company
intranet. This button only works if you are viewing the PDF document from
inside a Web browser.
Important: Saving to disk, either by exporting form data or saving the filled-in
form, is available only in Acrobat.
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To clear a form in a browser window:

■ 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.
Important: There is no undo for this action.
Copying and pasting text and graphics to another appli-

cation
You can select text or a graphic in a PDF document, copy it to the Clipboard,
and paste it into a document in another application such as a word processor.
You can also paste text into a PDF document note or into a bookmark.
Once the selected text or graphic is on the Clipboard, you can switch to
another application and paste it into another document.
Note: If a font copied from a PDF document is not available on the system
displaying the copied text, the font cannot be preserved. A default font is
substituted.
To select text and copy it to the clipboard:
1 Select the text select tool , and do one of the following:
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■ To select a line of text, select the first letter of the sentence or phrase and
drag to the last letter.
■ To select multiple columns of text (horizontally), hold down Ctrl (Windows
and UNIX) 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.
■ To select all the text on the page, choose Edit > Select All. In Single Page
mode, all the text on the current page is selected. In Continuous or Continuous
- Facing mode, most of the text in the document is selected. When you release
the mouse button, the selected text is highlighted. To deselect the text and
start over, click anywhere outside the selected text.
The Select All command will not select all the text in the document. A
workaround for this (Windows) is to use the Edit > Copy command.
2 Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected text to the Clipboard.
3 To view the text, choose Window > Show Clipboard.
In Windows 95, the Clipboard Viewer is not installed by default, and you cannot
use the Show Clipboard command until it is installed. To install the Clipboard
Viewer, choose Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, and
then click the Windows Setup tab. Double-click Accessories, check Clipboard
Viewer, and click OK.
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To copy graphics to the Clipboard:

1 Select the graphics select tool . The cursor changes to the cross-hair icon.
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.
4 To view the graphic, choose Window > Show Clipboard. The graphic is
copied using the WMF (Windows), PICT (Mac OS), or XPIXMAP (UNIX) format. In
UNIX, the graphic is pasted in the primary selection.
Using PDF on the Web

PDF documents can be published on the World Wide Web and read in Web
browsers or in Acrobat viewers used as helper applications with Web browsers.
For more information, see Web viewing scenarios, Page-at-a-time
downloading, and Reading PDF on the Web.
Web viewing scenarios

Here are four possible scenarios for viewing PDF on the Web:
■ The browser supports PDF viewing, the PDF file is optimized, and the Web
server supports page-at-a-time downloading (byte-serving), so the PDF file
downloads a page at a time and displays in the Web browser window. This is
the fastest scenario possible for viewing PDF documents on the Web.
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■ 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.
■ The browser supports PDF viewing, and PDF files are embedded in an HTML
page. An ActiveX browser such as Internet Explorer supports navigating
through the document. Netscape Navigator-compatible browsers can display
the PDF document within an HTML page, but require a link to a full-window
view for navigation.
■ Acrobat or Acrobat Reader is configured as a helper application for the
browser, and the browser may support PDF viewing within the browser
window. The entire PDF file downloads to the machine with the browser, and
the Acrobat viewer launches as a separate application and displays the PDF
document.
See also Setting up Acrobat Reader as a helper application.
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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; it is communicated in the background between Acrobat Reader and
the Web server. If you want the entire PDF document to continue downloading
in the background while you view the first page of requested information, be
sure Allow Background Downloading is selected in the General preferences
dialog box (default).
If your Web server does not support page-at-a-time downloading, you can use
a CGI application to do it.
Reading PDF on the Web

Each document or other resource on the Web is identified by a unique uniform
resource locator (URL) address. Clicking a URL link to a PDF document on the
Web can open the document identified by the URL in your Web browser for
inline viewing, or in Acrobat Reader if Reader has been set up as a helper appli-
cation for your browser. You can also read PDF files that have been embedded
in HTML documents on the Web. For more information, see Reading PDF in a
Web browser, Reading embedded PDF files, and Setting up Acrobat Reader as
a helper application.
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Reading PDF in a Web browser

PDF documents can display in Web browsers compatible with Netscape
Navigator 3.0 (or later) or Internet Explorer 3.0 (or later). The necessary plug-ins
are automatically installed when you install Acrobat Reader. For information on
getting your browser ready, see Setting up Acrobat Reader as a helper appli-
cation. (For additional installation information, see Installing the Web browser
plug-in.)
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.
Note: Many keyboard commands are mapped to the Web browser rather than
to Acrobat Reader, so some Acrobat Reader keyboard shortcuts may not be
available in the browser window.
Visiting the Adobe Web site

Click the Adobe Web Site button to link directly to the Adobe Web site
(www.adobe.com). This page contains valuable information about new
technology, links to Acrobat plug-ins, and more. 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.
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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.
If you visit a Web site that uses a search engine that indexes PDF documents,
your search results list may include PDF documents. If the Web site uses a
search engine that supports PDF search highlighting, and if you open one of
the PDF documents in the search results list, the Highlight Next and
Highlight Previous buttons activate on the Acrobat Reader tool bar in your
Web browser. The search term is also highlighted in the document.
To go to the next search hit, click the Highlight Next button. To go to the
previous hit, click the Highlight Previous button. These two commands jump
across PDF documents, but not across HTML documents.
Reading embedded PDF files

HTML pages can include embedded PDF documents. An embedded PDF
document normally displays an image of the first page of the document in the
HTML document. The PDF document can be configured by the HTML author to
display, when clicked, in a separate window. The document displays in a
browser window or in an Acrobat Reader window, depending on how you have
configured your browser.
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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
they would be active in Internet Explorer.
Setting up Acrobat Reader as a helper application

If your Web browser does not display PDF documents in the browser window,
or if you prefer not to view PDF documents in the Web browser, you can set up
Acrobat Reader as a helper application in your browser’s preferences. Then,
when you view a PDF document on the Web, Acrobat Reader will start and
display the document. When Acrobat Reader works as a helper application, you
cannot use page-at-a-time downloading, form submittal in a browser, or search
highlighting on the Web, and you cannot view embedded PDF documents.
To set up your Web browser to recognize PDF files, you must define a MIME
type and a file type. The file type should be pdf. The MIME type should be appli-
cation/pdf. See your browser’s documentation for information on configuring
it.
If you are using Netscape Navigator 2.0 or later with Windows or Mac OS, and if
you want to use Acrobat Reader as a helper application, rename the PDFViewer
plug-in or delete it from the Netscape plug-in folder. The plug-in is named
nppdf32.dll (Windows) or PDFViewer (Mac OS).
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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
(Windows), the nppdf.so file (UNIX), or PDFViewer plug-in (Mac OS) to display
PDF. When you install Acrobat Reader with Search, this plug-in is automatically
installed in the Netscape plug-in folder (Win and Mac OS), if you have
Navigator on your system. If you install Navigator after installing Acrobat
Reader, or if you’re using another browser compatible with Navigator, you can
install this plug-in yourself. To set up Netscape Navigator on a UNIX system, you
must run the Netscape launch script located in the Browser folder (see Reading
PDF documents in a Web browser).
To install the Web browser plug-in (Windows):
1 Open the Browser folder in the Acrobat Reader folder.
2 Copy the nppdf32.dll file to your Web browser’s plug-ins folder.
To install the Web browser plug-in (Mac OS):
1 Open the Web Browser Plug-in folder in the Acrobat Reader folder.
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2 Copy the PDFViewer plug-in to your Web browser’s plug-ins folder.

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.
In a sense, each device speaks its own color language and it can’t communicate
that color very well to another device. What’s needed is an interpreter, such as a
color management system, that uses a device-independent color model as the
color language by which all color information is referenced. The color model
Acrobat Reader uses is called CIELAB, developed in 1976 by the Commission
Internationale de l'Eclairage (International Committee on Illumination, or CIE).
The CIE’s standard for measuring color is based on how the human eye
perceives it, not on the device that created it.
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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.
This makes a color-managed workflow advantageous. The images become
portable since they can be displayed on widely differing devices simply by
tagging the images with different output profiles.
How to print this online guide

Because the pages of this online guide are optimized for online viewing, you
may prefer to print them two to a page (two-up).
To print pages two up:
1 Choose File > Print Setup (Windows) or File > Page Setup (Mac OS).
2 Follow the instruction for your platform:
■ In Windows, click Options, select 2 up on the paper tab, click OK to return to
the Print Setup dialog box, and click OK again to close it.
■ In Mac OS, choose 2 Up from the Layout menu and click OK.
Note: If you can’t perform step 2 in Windows, you may not be using the Adobe
PostScript printer driver.
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3 Choose File > Print.

4 Indicate the page range.
5 Click OK (Windows) or Print (Mac OS).
Searching Catalog Indexes
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Chapter 3
T
he Acrobat Search command allows you to perform full-text searches of
PDF document collections that have been indexed using Acrobat Catalog,
whereas the Acrobat Find command allows you to search only a single
document. The Find command is further limited by having to look at every
word on every page. For these reasons, searches of full-text indexes created
using Catalog are faster and more convenient than using the Find command.
The Search command also provides powerful tools for limiting and expanding
a search.
About searching Acrobat Catalog indexes

The focus of your search will depend a lot on how the index was constructed.
Consider the following questions before setting search options and defining
search queries:
■ Was document and date information provided for the PDF documents, and
can it be used for searching?
■ Were common words and numbers excluded when the index was built?
A well-built index will often include a file that provides information that can
help you plan your search strategies.
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Searching indexes
To search an index created using Adobe Catalog, you first select the indexes to
search, define a search query, select the documents to review from those
returned by the search, and then view the occurrences of the search term
within the documents you selected to review. A search query is an expression
made up of text and other items to define the information you want to find.
Opening a PDF document associated with an index automatically makes
the index searchable.
Selecting indexes
You can search any or all indexes displayed in the Index Selection dialog box.
Dimmed indexes are not available for searching.
To customize index selection:
1 Choose Edit > Search > Select Indexes to list the currently available indexes
and to add or delete indexes, and then do one of the following in the Index
Selection dialog box:
■ To add an index to the available indexes list, click Add, navigate to the index,
and double-click on the index file.
■ To remove an index, select the index name, click Remove, and then click OK.
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■ To select or deselect an index, select the box for the index, and then click OK.
Indexes that are grayed out are currently unavailable for searching.
■ To view information about an available index, highlight the index name, click
Info, and then click OK. The information displayed includes the build date,
creation date, number of documents in the index, location of the index, and
information provided by the builder of the index.
Using the Search command

The Search command allows you to perform a search on PDF documents. You
can search for a simple word or phrase, or you can expand your search query by
using wild-card characters and operators. You can use the search options to
further refine your search. And if document and date information were
provided for the documents you are searching, you can use that information to
narrow your search.
To perform a full-text search:
1 Choose Edit > Search > Query.
2 Type the text you want to search for in the Find Results Containing Text box:
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The text that you type in can be a single word, a number, a term, or a phrase. It
can be a word, with or without wild-card characters (*, ?), or any combination of
letters, numbers, and symbols. Because you can use Boolean operators in the
text box, you must enclose any search term that includes and, or, or not in
quotes. You can also use the operators =, ~, and != with text, but only to
perform exact matches, contains, and does not contain searches, respectively.
You can use comparison operators (<, <=, >, >=) with values of the same type.
For more information, see Tips on defining search queries.
To clear the search dialog box and redefine the search, click Clear.
3 To refine your search query, select one or more of the search options: Word
Stemming, Sounds Like, Thesaurus, Match Case, or Proximity. If the search
options are not displayed in the Acrobat Search dialog box, restore them by
choosing File > Preferences > Search, and selecting Show Options. For infor-
mation on how these options affect your search query, see Setting the search
options.
Note: Before you perform a search with one of these options, you can preview
the type of results you’ll receive using the Word Assistant. For more infor-
mation, see Using Word Assistant.
4 To refine your search query using document and date information, enter
document information values in the Title, Subject, Author, and Keywords text
boxes, and enter date information in the creation and modification date text
boxes. If these text boxes are not displayed in the Acrobat Search dialog box,
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restore them by choosing File > Preferences > Search, and selecting Show
Fields and Show Date.
5 Select Search. The Search dialog box is hidden, and documents that match
your search query are listed in the Search Results window in order of relevancy.
6 Double-click a document that seems likely to contain the relevant infor-
mation, probably the first document in the list. The document opens on the
first match for the text you typed.
7 Click the Search Next button or Search Previous button to go to other
matches in the document. Or choose another document to view.
Alternatively, you can redefine the query by typing new text in the Acrobat
Search dialog box or by using other techniques to expand the search to include
more documents or to limit the search to fewer documents. For more infor-
mation, see Limiting searches.
Viewing documents returned from searches

A search returns a list of indexed documents containing items that match your
search query. The results are displayed in the Search Results window. When you
open a document in the list, you view only pages containing matches. All the
matches on a page are highlighted.
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Documents more likely to contain relevant information are listed first on the
list. The relevancy ranking of each document is indicated by an icon. The
degree of fill in the circle in the icon indicates the probability that the
document contains the search information. A solid fill indicates a high proba-
bility that the document contains your search term; an empty circle indicates a
low probability that the document contains your search term.
Relevancy ranking for search results
The relevancy ranking also depends on how you defined your search query:
■ When you use ordinary search text, the relevancy ranking indicates how
frequently the search word appears in the document. This means both in
absolute terms and relative to the number of other words in the document.
■ When you use a Boolean OR operator between two words or phrases in a
search, documents that contain both items have a higher relevancy ranking
than documents that contain just one item.
■ When you use the Proximity option, the closer the matches are within a
document, the higher the relevancy ranking of that document.

To view a document returned from a search:
1 Double-click the document name to open the document.
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2 Use the Search buttons on the tool bar to view all the matches for your
query.
3 Review the search results that automatically appear in the text box:
■ To highlight the next occurrence of a match in the document, click Next
Highlight
■ To highlight the previous occurrence of a match in a document, click
Previous Highlight .
■ To highlight the first occurrence of a match in the next document listed or
previous document listed, Shift-click Next Highlight or Previous Highlight.
■ To view any other document listed, select Search Results to redisplay the
list, and then double-click the document name.
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Refining your searches

If your search returns too many documents or provides too many matches in
individual documents, you can pare down the search results by confining the
search to documents returned by a previous search, or you can more narrowly
define your search term, use the document and date information, and use the
general search options and the Word Assistant. Alternatively, if your search did
not provide the information you were looking for, you can broaden your search
query using the search options, for example.
Note: If the search options and document and date information text boxes are
not displayed in the Acrobat Search dialog box, restore them by choosing File >
Preferences > Search, and selecting Show Options.
Refining searches in progress

If you want to narrow a search further, you can refine or confine your search to
documents listed in a prior search. For example, you can first search for (and
find) all documents by an author, and then define a search query for that
subset of documents. The result would be a subset of documents that are
authored by the specified author and that contain the search string.
To refine a search:
1 Choose Edit > Search > Results to display the Search Results window. Select
and show the results of a previous search.
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2 In the Search dialog box, refine or replace the query that produced the list of
documents.
If you used a simple text string for the search query, you might consider
refining the search query by using the search options, by including document
and date information in the search, or by using Word Assistant. For more infor-
mation, see Using Word Assistant.
3 Press Ctrl (Windows or UNIX) or Option (Mac OS). The button label changes
from Search to Refine.
4 Click Refine. This produces a Search Results list of documents that are a
subset of the previous list and that match the new query.
Using Word Assistant

Word Assistant enables you to build a list of terms that will appear when you
specify a search using the Sounds Like, Word Stemming, or Thesaurus options.
The resulting list shows you if the option you are using is likely to return helpful
results. If the list is too long or full of irrelevant words, you can quickly construct
a list of words to find by copying words from the Word Assistant dialog box and
pasting them into the search dialog box.
To use the Word Assistant with search options:
1 Choose Edit > Search > Word Assistant.
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2 To check the available indexes or change the selection of indexes, click

Indexes.
3 In the Index Selection dialog, select the indexes you want to use, and click
OK.
4 Select a search option (Sounds Like, Word Stemming, or Thesaurus) from the
Assist menu.
5 Enter the search word in the Word text box, and click Look Up.
To copy words from the Word Assistant dialog box:
1 Choose Edit > Search > Query to open the Search dialog box.
2 Use the Word Assistant to generate a list of related words.
3 Double-click a word to search.
4 Double-click and copy the word in the Word text box to the clipboard.
5 In the Search dialog box, select the Find text box, and paste in the selected
word.
6 Repeat steps 3 through 5 for each word you want to use; separate each pair
of words in the Find text box with AND or OR.
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Setting the search options

You can expand your search term by using the search options Sounds Like,
Word Stemming, or Thesaurus. To determine if your choices will be useful in
limiting your search, you can use the Word Assistant to build a list of terms that
will appear when you specify these options. For more information, see Using
Word Assistant.
You can limit your search term by using the search options Match Case and
Proximity.
To set the search options:
In the Search dialog box, select one or more of the options:
■ Word Stemming finds words that contain part of (a word stem) the specified
search word. It applies to single words, not phrases; does not apply to words
that contain wild-card characters (*, ?); finds words that end in ing, ed, s, ion,
and so on, but not er; and cannot be used with the Match Case option. Word
Stemming works only for indexes built with this option.
■ Sounds Like finds different spellings for proper names. It applies to single
words, not phrases; does not apply to words that contain wild-card characters;
and cannot be used with the Match Case option. Sounds Like works only for
indexes built with this option.
■ Thesaurus finds similar words that appear in the documents you are
searching, not necessarily all the similar words you might find in a complete
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thesaurus. It applies to single words, not phrases; does not apply to words that
contain wild-card characters; and cannot be used with the Match Case option.
■ Match Case limits the results of the search by finding only those documents
that contain words with the same capitalization. It can be used with a Boolean
expression and with terms that use wild-card characters. Characters matched
by wild-card characters can be either uppercase or lowercase.
■ Proximity limits the results of simple AND searches to one pair of matches
per document—the pair closest together. The two matches must be within
three pages or fewer of each other. This option is useful for locating a
document that concentrates on some topic of interest.
Proximity affects relevancy ranking in searches. The closer the matches are
within a document, the higher the ranking. Proximity does work with complex
AND searches—such as, Hawaii AND (cruise OR fly).
If you want to keep the search dialog box small, you can hide (or keep
hidden) the options and type in their names in the Find Results Containing Text
box. Along with the text box names, you need to use operators such as =
(equals) and > (greater than). For the options, type in /st (stemming), /so
(sounds like), /th (thesaurus), /ca (match case), or /pr (proximity).
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Searching with Document Info and Date Info

If document and date information was provided for the documents you are
searching, you can use this information in the Search dialog box to limit your
search. For example, you can limit your search to documents authored by one
person and created or modified within a given period or on a given date. You
can view the document and date information (if any) provided by choosing File
> Document Info > General from within the PDF document.
If you want to keep the search dialog box small, you can hide the document
and date text boxes and type the text box names in the Find Results Containing
box. You will need to use operators such as = (equals) and > (greater than).
To search using Document Info:
In the Search dialog box, enter your search query information in the appro-
priate Title, Subject, Author, and Keywords text boxes. You can use Boolean
operators and wild-card characters in these text boxes, with the search text.
All documents that contain the value are returned. If the With Document
Info text boxes are not displayed in your Search dialog box, choose
File > Preferences > Search, and select Show Fields. You may see additional
custom text boxes in your display, depending on the information supplied for
the PDF document.
To search using Date Info:
In the Search dialog box, do one of the following:
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■ Enter a date (month, day, year), or use the Up and Down Arrow keys to select
a value.
■ To limit a search to documents created or modified after a specific date,
specify the after date, and leave the before date blank.
■ To limit a search to documents that were created or modified before a
specific date, specify the before date, and leave the after date blank.
■ To create a Boolean AND condition, enter the creation and modification
dates in the Search dialog box. An AND condition returns only documents
created or modified during the specified period.
If the With Date Info text boxes are not displayed in your Search dialog box,
choose File > Preferences > Search, and select Show Date.
Tips on defining search queries

You can improve your search by narrowly defining the term or phrase you
search for, being aware that some words (stopwords) and numbers may have
been excluded when the index was built, and by using wild-card characters
and Boolean operators.
Searching for terms or phrases

■ If your search phrase includes the words and, or, or not used in their ordinary
sense (not as a Boolean operator), put the phrase in quotes. The search phrase
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“once or twice”
finds all occurrences of the phrase once or twice, not all occurrences of once and
all occurrences of twice as it would without the quotes.
■ If your search phrase includes punctuation (other than an apostrophe) or
special characters (such as @ and *), they are ignored. For example, either of the
terms
son-in-law, son in law
finds all occurrences of both son-in-law and son in law.
Excluding stopwords, numbers, and separator characters

■If you are unsuccessful in searching for a phrase that includes a common
word, it is probably because it is a specified stopword.
■ If you are unsuccessful in searching for a term that includes numbers, it is
probably because numbers have been excluded from the index. Acrobat
Catalog defines a number to be a sequence of one or more digits (0 through 9),
optionally preceded by a minus sign (-), optionally separated by one or more
commas (,) or periods (.), and optionally containing a decimal point, which can
be a period (.) or a comma (,).
■ If you use a separator character in a search term, it is automatically discarded.
Separator characters include all symbols, the space character, and punctuation
characters except the apostrophe. When indexing a PDF document, Acrobat
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Catalog uses separator characters to recognize where one term ends and the
next term begins.
■ If alphanumeric terms are made up of numbers and separator characters,
they can also be excluded.
Expanding searches
■Use wild-card characters in the search text to increase the number of
matches for the text.
■Use an asterisk (*) to match zero, one, or more characters; use a question
mark (?) to match any one character.
■ Use wild-card characters in a term that is part of a Boolean expression.
■ Use wild-card characters to specify Document Info text box values. However,
you cannot use wild-cards to represent separator characters such as the

hyphen (-) and the slash (/).
■ Use Boolean expressions in Document Info text box values.
■ Use a Boolean OR operator between two words to return documents
containing either word.

■ Use the Sounds Like, Word Stemming, and Thesaurus options to increase the
number of matches for the text.
■ Use a comma (,) or vertical bar (|) to separate items in an OR search.
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Limiting searches
■ Use a Boolean NOT operator before a word or search term to exclude
documents containing the word or search term.
■ Use an exclamation point (!) as another way to specify a NOT search.
However, be sure to place a space between the exclamation point and the
search item.
■ Use a Boolean AND operator between two words to return only documents
containing both words.
■ Use the Proximity option to limit AND searches. This specifies that words
must be in close proximity to each other—within three pages or fewer.

■ Use the Match Case option to match exact capitalization.
Using Boolean operators

To avoid building inaccurate search queries, follow these guidelines:
■ When NOT is used with either or both of the AND and OR operators, it is
evaluated before either the AND or OR. For example, evolution AND NOT Darwin
finds all documents that contain the word evolution but not the word Darwin.
■ When you combine AND and OR in the same expression, AND is evaluated
before OR. For example, Darwin OR origin AND species finds all documents that
contain Darwin or that contain both origin and species.
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■ When you use parentheses, you change the default order of evaluation for
Boolean operators. For example, (Darwin OR origin) AND species finds all
documents that contain either Darwin and species or that contain origin and
species. Parentheses can be nested.
■ When you use a literal phrase that contains an operator name, a symbol for
an operator name (such as & for AND), or parentheses, the phrase must be
enclosed in quotation marks. For example: “cats and dogs” finds all documents
that contain the phrase cats and dogs, not all documents that contain either the
word cats or the word dogs. The phrase cats & dogs also needs quotes to be
interpreted literally.
In addition to and, or, not, and parentheses, the symbols that require quotation
marks are
& AND
| and , OR
! NOT
However, quoted search phrases that contain parentheses or vertical bars can
produce unexpected results.
Using operators
You can use operators in text and Document Info text boxes.
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■ You can use =, ~, and != with text only to perform exact matches, contains,
and does not contain searches, respectively.
■ You can use comparison operators (<, <=, >, >=) with values of the same
type.
Setting search preferences

You can change the default settings in the Search Preferences dialog box to
add more choices to your search dialog box, if necessary. For example, if you
check Show Fields, a With a Document Info section is added to the search
dialog box.
To change search preferences:
1 Choose File > Preferences > Search.
2 Set the preferences in the dialog box as necessary:
■ Show Fields displays Document Info fields. For more information,
seeSearching with Document Info and Date Info.

■ Show Options displays search word options. For more information, see
Setting the search options.
■ Show Date displays the date of the items returned by a search query.
■ Hide on Search hides the dialog box during a search.
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■ Sort By allows you to specify a sort by Modified, Producer, Score, Subject,

Title, Author, Created, Creator, or Keywords.
■ Show Top displays a specified number of documents that are the first
returned from the search.

■ Hide on View hides the dialog box when viewing results.
■ Highlight Display allows you to specify highlighting By Page, By Word, or No
Highlight.
3 Click OK.
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Contents

Opening PDF documents

Viewing PDF documents on the Web

Reading PDF documents in a Web browser

In UNIX, PDF documents can display in Web browsers compatible with

Opening a PDF file embedded as an OLE object in another

Printing PDF documents

To print a PDF document:

printed as closed, even if they are open on the pages online.

Printing PDF documents from the command line (UNIX)

acroread -toPostScript <options> <pdf filename>

To use the printer’s default halftone screens instead of custom halftone

To create a binary PostScipt file:

To print a range of pages:

To print the document in a landscape orientation:

To reverse the page order of the output:

To output only odd-numbered pages:

To output only even-numbered pages:

To shrink, expand or rotate a document, as necessary, to fit the page on

To scale the document:

To control the page size:

Printing and viewing PDF documents containing Asian

■ Weblink preferences determine the behavior of information display for

Customizing resources for your personal use (UNIX)

Plug-in location (UNIX)

Starting multiple Acrobat viewers (UNIX)

Fonts for bookmarks (UNIX)

Giving Acrobat Reader access to fonts (UNIX)

Magnifying and reducing the page view

around the area to magnify.

To return a page to its actual size:

Setting the page layout

ration accommodates a two-page spread display and multiple-page viewing in

Single Page layout, Continuous layout, Continuous - Facing layout

Setting a default view

lines (or greeked text) to speed display time.

and for viewing articles.

■ Allow Background Downloading allows a PDF document to continue

another document is activated, the document remains open in a separate

Reading documents in Full Screen view

Setting Full Screen preferences

To set preferences for Full Screen view:

Choosing a Web browser for Weblinks

3 Set the following options for displaying Web information:

Displaying information about a document

more information, see Getting General information about a document.

Getting information about security settings.

Getting General information about a document

Getting information about fonts used in a document

Getting information about security settings

A PDF document author can choose to restrict access to a file by requiring an

Paging through a document

■ To move up one line, press the Up Arrow key.

Browsing with thumbnails

Browsing with bookmarks

Retracing your steps

UNIX) or Shift-Option (Mac OS) and click.

3 Select search options if necessary:

through the document.

Setting annotation preferences