Discover 10 features of Adobe Reader 8 and 9

Network administration - PDF documents have become popular on the web, and you can also work on them daily. You can open PDF documents on the web browser program by using the Adobe Reader plug-in or using the Adobe Reader program.

Discover 10 features of Adobe Reader 8 and 9 Picture 1 When opening a PDF file, you can choose to read the contents of the file. In addition to these features, Adode Reader also integrates many other features that you can use when viewing documents in Adobe Reader 8 and Adobe Reader 9.

Here are 10 features that you may not know:

1. Look up words

Have you ever read a PDF document and encountered a strange or obscure word and you didn't even know how to pronounce it? If this is the case, you can look up the word in Dictionary.com in the following way:

1. Right click on the word you want to look up and select the Lookup 'word' command .

1. Your browser program will launch and connect to the Dictionary.com website, then navigate to the page containing the definition of the word you look up. Each definition of Dictionary.com includes the correct pronunciation of the word, just click on the pronunciation icon and hear the pronunciation of the word.

If you have Flash Player installed on your browser, the pronunciation will run immediately. Otherwise, the pronunciation will be run by the Media Player program installed by default on the browser program.

2. Use Full Reader Search to search for text

If you have to search for text in a PDF file, you can enter the search keyword directly in the Find field on the toolbar and press Enter . The default Find tool is used for simple search tasks, but you can do a more detailed search using the Full Reader Search tool.

1. Click the down arrow next to the Find field on the toolbar.

1. Select the Open Full Reader Search command.

1. When the Search window appears, click the Advanced Search Options link at the bottom of the window.

1. You can then choose to return the result containing the search keyword phrase or any word in that phrase, enable Sensitivity (including comments while searching, .). You can expand your search beyond open PDF files and find all other PDF files in the My Documents folder.

3. Use the Snapshot tool to copy images in a PDF document

Ever wanted to reuse the image file in PDF on another program? You just need to select the image, then right-click and select Copy Image . But if you want to copy only part of the image, use the Snapshot tool:

1. Open the Tool menu and select the Select & Zoom submenu then open the Snapshot tool.

1. Use the cursor to click and draw a rectangle around the image or part of the image you want to copy. Then release the mouse.

The selected image area has been automatically copied to Cliboard . And you can paste the image into another document.

4. Set the Internet connection speed

By default, when installing Adobe Reader, Web Browser Options settings are configured to display PDFs that you open on websites in the browser program. In addition, these settings allow for quick viewing and downloading to help readers download a page of PDF documents very quickly and continue to download the remaining pages in the background while viewing the first page of the document.

However, the default Adobe Reader setting for Connection Speed is 56Kbps . To get the most out of Adobe Reader 's Web Browser Options , you should choose the settings that best match the bandwidth connection speed:

1. Go to the Edit menu, select Preferences .

1. Select the Internet in the Categories table.

1. Select the appropriate speed in the Connection Speed list.

1. Done click OK .

5. Smoothing the transition process

When zooming in or zooming out and moving the slider in a PDF document, you may see the transition occur when zooming or moving the slider a bit jerky. However, you can handle this little problem with the Smooth Zooming feature in Adobe 9, and both the Smooth Zooming and Smooth Scrolling features in Adobe Reader 8. Do the following:

1. Go to Edit Preference menu.

1. Select Page Display in Categories.

1. In the Rendering area, select the screen type in the Smooth Text drop-down list.

1. In the Page Content Information area:

- For Adobe Reader 8 version, select both boxes select Use Smooth Zooming and Use Smooth Scrolling.

- For Adobe Reader 9 version, check the box Use Smooth Zooming.

1. Then click OK

6. Read documents with Reading Mode and Automatic Scrolling

When opening a long PDF document in Adobe Reader, you can reduce eye strain and constantly have to move the slider using the Reading Mode and Automatic Scrolling feature .

1. Select the Hand tool in the toolbar.

1. Press Ctrl + H to activate Reading Mode .

1. Press Ctrl + Shift + H to activate the Automatic Scrolling tool.

1. To pause scrolling, click and hold the page with the Hand tool.

1. Release the mouse to continue moving the slider.

1. Press Esc to stop moving the slider.

7. Change page orientation

When reading PDF documents, you can also rotate the page installed horizontally. These pages often display charts or tables, and will be printed in Landscape mode. Instead of changing positions to read inclined pages, you can use the Rotate View command to change the settings of these pages.

1. Go to View Rotate View Clockwise menu.

1. To rotate the page horizontally, simply go to View Rotate View menu CounterClockwise .

8. Reader tool for Adobe Reader documents

Adobe Reader can read documents for you using the Text To Speech feature built into Windows . This feature is designed to be an accessible feature, but it can be a useful tool for those who want to do many other tasks without having to sit in front of a computer screen. You only need to do the following:

1. Go to the menu View Read Out Loud Active Read Out Loud .

1. Then go back to the View Read Out Loud menu and select Read This Page Only or Read To End Of Document .

1. You can then use the Pause and Stop commands in the View menu to stop the Read Out Loud .

1. To turn off this feature, go to the View Read Out Loud Deactive Read Out Loud menu.

9. PowerPoint simulation

If you open a PDF document created from a PowerPoint program, you can configure and use Adobe Reader to simulate PowerPoint .

1. Go to Edit Preferences menu.

1. Select Full Screen in the Categories window.

1. If you want the slide to run automatically, just check the Advance Every checkbox and enter the amount of time to convert the slide in the Seconds box (in seconds).

1. If you want to enable transitions, select an item in the Default Transitions list.

1. Then click OK .

1. Press Ctrl + L to activate Full Screen Mode to start the slideshow.

1. Left click to open the next slide and right click to review the previous slide.

10. Open a document on multiple windows

When viewing a large PDF document and needing to compare the information at the top and the bottom at the same time, it is troublesome if you constantly have to drag the slider to the top and down to the last page to see the necessary information. Fortunately, Adobe supports viewing information in various pages in a document using multiple windows. You can view the information at the top of the document in a window and the information at the end in another window.

1. Go to Window menu then select New Window.

1. Go back to Window Tile Horizontally menu.