Overview of Adobe Acrobat 7 - Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction - page 20

Figure 3.5 Control the document display using the Status bar features
Figure 3.6 See the page's dimensions in a tooltip when the view is smaller than the Document pane
Using Help Features
The How To window displays by default when you open Acrobat. Each of Acrobat's Task buttons include
a command to display help for that specific type of task. For instance, if you are learning how to comment
on a document, you can choose How To Add Comments & Markups from the Comment & Markup task
button's menu to display a list of topics in the How To window.
Navigate through the Help files using the icons at the top of the window. Directional arrows take you to
previous and subsequent views; click the Printer icon to print the displayed topic; click the plus (+) and
minus ( - ) icons to zoom in or zoom out of the Help window for easier reading.
To access the main Help files, choose Help > Complete Acrobat 7.0 Help or press the F1 key. The Help
files open in a separate window. As in other programs, you can access help in three ways:
x Contents. The Contents listing is shown by default when the Help files open (Figure 3.7). Topics are
arranged in a hierarchy from general to specific topics.
x Search. Type the search term in the Find topics containing field and click Search to display a list of
topics containing your search term. Click a listing to display the content in the main pane with the
search term highlighted. To hide the highlighting, click the Help window to deselect the highlights.
x Index. Type the first few letters of the term in the field at the top of the Index pane. Matching listings
are displayed in the body of the window.
Opening and Saving Documents
You do not create blank PDF files in Acrobat and then add content within the program. Instead, you open
PDF documents or create new ones in a number of ways. A selected file, such as a Word document, can be
converted from its native DOC format to PDF using an automatic file conversion process.
The Create PDF Task button's commands let you generate PDF files using several methods, including
from a single or multiple files, from a scanner, a Web page, or using a Snapshot, which is content captured
from a document that is used to create a new file.
In addition to saving a PDF file in the usual way by using the Save command on the File menu, you can
also save a PDF file in a wide range of additional file formats. In the Save dialog box, click the Save as
type drop-down arrow and choose a file format option from the list (Figure 3.8). Once you make a
selection, you can click the Settings button to configure most types of files before saving them.
Close Acrobat in the same way as any other program; when you reopen the program, the toolbars are in
the same arrangement as you set before closing the program. The Navigation panes may or may not be
displayed in the same way depending on whether an initial view is set for the document. Acrobat allows