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