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Using Acrobat Reader

All of the cases on this site are stored in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). To read and print the documents, you need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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:

Do one of the following:

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 buttonin the status bar, and choose a magnification level.

To decrease magnification:

Do one of the following:

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.
Click the Magnification buttonin the status bar, and choose a magnification 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:

Do one of the following:

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.

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.

Copying and pasting text and graphics to another application

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:

Select the text select tool

, and do one of the following:

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) 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.

Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected text to the Clipboard.
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.

To copy graphics to the Clipboard:

Select the graphics select tool. The cursor changes to the cross-hair icon.
Drag a rectangle around the graphic you want to copy. To deselect the graphic and start over, click anywhere outside the selected graphic.
Choose Edit > Copy to copy the graphic to the Clipboard.
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.

Adobe Acrobat Reader Copyright

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