For Detailed information go to the Help Menu in Adobe Acrobat.

 

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.  Most of the documents on this site open with page one and Bookmarks opened on the left pane for easy navigating to whatever page you would like to view.

 

We do not default to Full Screen View, however 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).

 

To open a PDF document:

 

Do one of the following:

 

Click the Open button , or choose File > Open. In the Open dialog box, select the filename for the file downloaded on your computer, and click Open. PDF documents usually have the extension .pdf.

 

You can also choose the document’s filename from the File menu for the last four PDF documents you opened.  You can also 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.

 

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

 

Viewing PDF documents on the Web

With most of the files at this site, you can view PDF documents using a Web browser. Every document on the Web is identified by a (URL). When a PDF document is stored on the Web, you can click a URL link to it to open the PDF document in your

Web browser.  This is the preferred method.

 

Reading PDF documents in a Web browser

 

In Win and Mac OS, PDF documents are displayed in the Web browsers compatible with Netscape Navigator 4.0 (or later) or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (or later).

 

Normally the necessary plug-ins are automatically installed when you install Acrobat Reader. For information on manually getting your browser ready, see Installing the Web browser plug-in.

 

(NOTE:  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 instead of the plugin.)

 

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.

 

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.

 

Web viewing scenarios

 

Here are four possible scenarios for viewing PDF on the Web.  We use Optimized PDF files to download a page-at-time This is when 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 the file pages in the Web browser window. This is

the fastest scenario possible for viewing PDF documents on the Web.

 

There are other downloading possibilities, which we do not use on this site.

 

 

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. 

For those who want the entire document, there are other methods used to download  the entire document to your hard disk. 

 

As a reader of the PDF document, you do not have to do anything to make this page-at-a-time 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 you wish to download the entire file to your computer, right click your mouse button, and then,

Select: Save link as... If you use Netscape or,

Select: Save target as... If you use Internet Explorer  

After you decide where on your computer you want the file, hit "SAVE" to download. Once the file is on your computer double click on it to open it in Acrobat Reader. With this method you can open these files from your computer at anytime.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

To manually 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 manually install the Web browser plug-in (Mac OS):

1 Open the Web Browser Plug-in folder in the Acrobat Reader folder.

2 Copy the PDFViewer plug-in to your Web browser’s plug-ins folder.

 

To manually install the Web browser plug-in (UNIX):

Run <installdir>/Browsers/netscape.

 

Browsing with bookmarks

Bookmarks 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.  Primarily we are concerned with the sheet music at present however as this develops more features will be incorporated.  Essentially Bookmarks are nothing more than links to open pages inside the document or files outside of the document.

 

To browse with a bookmark:

 

1 Show the Bookmarks palette (This is the default on first opening the music files. If not, 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 appears boldfaced. If the navigation pane disappears when you click a bookmark, the document creator has activated the Hide After Use command. To show the navigation pane again, click the Show Navigation Pane button on the command bar. Deselect Hide After Use in the navigation pane’s palette menu if you want the navigation pane to remain open after you click a bookmark.

 

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 open these and close these by selecting the (+) to open or (-) to close next to the bookmark listing if in Windows and the Triangle in the MacOS.

 

 

In other words, 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.

 

Paging through a document

 

Acrobat Reader provides buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and menu commands for paging through PDF documents.

 

To go to another page do one of the following:

 

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.

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 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 screen, press Page Down or Return.

To move up one screen, 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:

 

Do one of the following:

 

Select the current page number in the status bar, type the page number to jump to, and press Return.

 

Choose Document > Go To Page, type the page number, and click OK.

 

OR

 

Drag the vertical scroll bar until the number of the page you want to jump to is displayed.

 

To retrace your viewing path:

 

To retrace your path within a PDF document, click the Go to Previous Viewbutton 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.

 

Visiting the Adobe Web site For additional help:

 

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.