25 September 2009 MAy 23, 2017 August 31, 2022 Eric Rasmusen, erasmuse@indiana.edu This file is now at http://www.rasmusen.org/a/acrobat-rasmusen.txt 2022: Acrobat Reader is still free, but you cna't edit much. IU now has Adobe Acrobat Pro as its editing app via IUWARE, and though it seems you can download it and operate it from your computer, I failed at that. So it needs to be logged into in the cloud, via https://uits.iu.edu/adobe and my IU password. These notes are Acrobat pdf tips and tricks that I have found useful or thought might be useful. I wrote these for my own use and have not tried to make them clear for others, but some other people might like them. ********************************************************** USE ACROBAT READER DC, the free one, NOT ACROBAT XI. Acrobat XI doesn't let you select more than one text box at a time (or mayb there is a way, but it is very difficult). ITs advatnages are tiny. Maybe it can do text recognition--so save i for that. Make the free redaer the default. THE SCROLL BAR DISAPPEARS. This is due to "tablet mode" being turned on for some reason (it does it on its own, I think). You have to go into EDIT, Preferences, General, and then somehow turn off tablet mode. ********************************************************** WINDOW STARTS TOO BIG AND CAN'T ACCESS THE TOP LINE TO CHANGE THE SIZE. Move your cursor over the Acrobat icon on the taskbar and right-click the image that pops up. Click the Move option and you can then move the window with the arrow keys. ********************************************************** To CROP: Don't use the Crop item in DOCUMENT, which is the obvious way. Instead, go to TOOLS then ADVANCED TOOLS and then CROP BOX and you can make a box around what you want to keep and double click inside it to crop it. ********************************************************** NAVIGATION PANE and ZOOM: GETTING RID OF THE USELESS BOOKMARKS and ZOOMING SENSIBLY. The navigation pane is the stupid large panel on the left that takes up so much space. There is no way to turn that off by default. You can, however, turn it off for any individual document by choosing FILE- Properties-Initial View and then resetting Navigation Pane and Magnification. Not setting a sensible default or allowing the default to be changed is a huge Adobe error. My respect for them has dropped. There is no way to change the default zoom. There is indeed an have zero effect. The document writer has absolute control over the default zoom for readers. See my complaints and a command-line workaround at: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2090064#2090064 ********************************************************** 16 PAGES TO A PAGE PRINTING To do this, do PRINT, the PROPERTIES, then PAGES PER SHEET and set it to up to 16. ********************************************************** CUTTING AND PASTING TEXT If you find you cannot cut and paste text to other applications, change the pdf file's security settings from STANDARD to NO SECURITY. ********************************************************** INSERTING PDF INTO HTML This method didn't really work for me-- the width wouldn't work. BUt here it is, for reference. **********************************************************