A document in Acrobat can be just about any size and so it's handy to be able to move around within the document but also move around within a page, within the document. So let's take a look at that.
First off, I am going to zoom completely out and look at this document fitting completely in the screen and the buttons up here allow me to do that very quickly. This button allows me to see the document, sort of fitting in the screen, top to bottom and that's the Fit Page button.
Usually when you start out, you will probably go to the Fit Page and frequently you will return to it because once you have done that and you need to zoom in on a particular piece of information, you can take the zoom tool and simply click and drag to see something that you are interested in and then once you need the overall view, you can again select the Fit Page window.
Now you will notice that I am able to see the page that's below this page in the document and that's because another of the viewing options is set in a particular way. This is the mode that I call the Toilet Paper mode because you can actually take your Hand Tool and scroll through the document and see the pages, top to bottom.
That could be handy as you are reading the document, however in some cases, you just want to see a particular page at a time; you might want to go ahead to the Single Page View, select that and then if you try and scroll down, you actually have to use the scrollbar on the side to go to the next page, so I am going to return to the first page.
When you are reading a document, it's often best to fill the screen's width, as much as you can, with the text because it makes it easier to read. Frankly, the bigger the text, the better. So I am going to use the Fit Width button to go ahead and accomplish that and when you are in Fit Width Mode, then it's actually handy to go to the Continuous mode, which is the official name for the Toilet Paper View, because then you can just kind of scroll through the document, as you need to and when you come to the end of a page, you just see the nice page break, but you can continue to read the document and so that's quite handy to be able to do.
Another thing that happens with documents, especially when you can zoom-in on something. If you are looking at the document at this view and you are reading particular information at this view, it maybe difficult to remember exactly where you are in the document and that's why the Return to Previous view option is very handy. So what I am going to do is I am going to zoom back out to Fit Page, then I am going to lament the fact that I am not sure that I can remember where I was.
Well, all I need to do is select Go to Previous View and it will take me, not only to that page, but to that exact view, so that I can find the information that I was reading, you have to assume the fact that I was reading it, so it makes it easy for me to see what I was doing.
Now, I want to go ahead and return to Fit Page view and there are a variety of Zoom tools that you have, that you can chose from. One of my favorites actually is the Pan & Zoom Window and I like the Pan & Zoom Window because it is a great way for me to be able to have my cake and eat it too. I can see the overall document, yet, I can go ahead and zoom in very quickly on a specific aspect of the document, moving around to those things that are important to me and if you are dealing with the project that has a lot of detail in it, this can be a really, really useful way of finding information that you want to see up close, but seeing the overall document at the same time.
Another thing that I might want to do, if I am just working and I have got a tool and I want to go ahead and just do some work and stay in that moment, one of the nice functions that I have here is the Hide Toolbars function. So instead of having to adjust my Toolbar, every time that I need some extra screen space, if I have the Toolbar set the way that I like them, I can come down here and select the Hide Toolbars and what Acrobat will do is first off, it will tell me that I have done that in case I have forgotten that and of course, all these dialog boxes, once I see them, I can always select 'Do not show this message again', select OK and that's gone; it won't come back up again.
Now, I am able to see the entire document leveraged the entirety of my screen space and then if I need some of the basic tools then I can come down here to the Basic Tools; so for example, I can zoom in if I need to. I can also zoom out if I need to and in this particular mode, there is another zoom tool that is really useful, it's the Dynamic Zoom Tool. What it allows me to do is both zoom in and zoom out, by clicking and dragging my mouse. Drag down to zoom out, drag up to zoom in; that in combination with the Hand Tool and the Hide Toolbars function makes it easier for me, quite frankly, to see the work that I am doing without having to see all of the various parts of the interface.
Now, once I am done with that and I do need my Toolbars back, it's simply a matter of clicking the Hide Toolbars button to toggle off and then again, my Toolbars will reappear.
Last, but not least, Adobe Acrobat can be used as a Presentation Tool; if you are going to present to somebody, obviously, you don't want the Acrobat interface cluttering up the presentation that you are delivering. So what I am going to do is come down here into the Full Screen View, select that and Acrobat will simply blank out everything about the interface and everything on your desktop, showing you just the content that you have.
Now, you can see, as I am talking here that the pages are automatically changing and I did that back in the Preferences by setting it so that the preference for Full Screen mode is that it will automatically loop and so if I am delivering a presentation and I have timing down, I can go ahead and speak to the presentation or if it's a looping presentation to begin a conference or something like that, I can just go ahead and let it go.
Once I am in the Full Screen Mode, to get out of Full Screen mode is very simple. All I need to do is hit the Escape key. Now I am going to jump back to the Preferences, for just a quick second because I want to show you that it's easy to navigate the presentation, even if I don't have the Advanced every so many seconds preference set, I will select OK, go back to Full Screen Mode and then, all I need to do is literally click the mouse or I can hit the Up and Down arrows on the keyboard to navigate through my presentation and then once again, once I am finished with my presentation and I am done, I can just hit the Escape key and then the Acrobat Interface will come back.
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