Acrobat's button bar, which is directly below the menu bar, offers immediate access to many menu operations. To activate a button, just click on it. Many of the buttons are explained in the section that follows. The remaining buttons will be described in separate sections.
Overview buttons
The first three buttons on the button bar control what is shown in the Overview area at the left side of the screen. The first one is "Page Only," which includes only a view of the page.
Next to it is the "Bookmarks" button.Bookmarks are
an easy way to navigate within a document. They act like a table of contents
for a document in which you can click on a particular line to bring up that
section of the document. If your screen is not showing Bookmarks (they'd
be on the left side), push the Bookmark button now to see what they look
like.
Thumbnailsare small reproductions of pages through which you can scroll. If your screen is not showing Thumbnails now (they'd be
on the left side), push the Thumbnails button to see what they look like.
Clicking on one of the mini-pages takes you directly to that page. In fact,
clicking on a particular part of the thumbnail will display that portion
on your screen.
Hand tool
Another way to get around the text on your screen is to use the Hand
tool to push or pull the screen image into position to display the part
you want to see. Press the button to select the tool, place the cursor where
you want the hand to grab the document, hold down the mouse button, and
then drag the mouse to move the image. Release the button when you're done.
The Hand tool is also used to read a "threaded" publication. This
feature, important for comfortably reading publications onscreen, is explained
later in the tutorial.
Zoom buttons
You can use the Zoom buttons to magnify or reduce the size of the page
so you can see the images or read the type more comfortably. The whole range
is from 50 percent to 800 percent of the original page size. Browsing buttons These buttons enable you to page through the publication easily. Thebutton automatically takes you to the first page of the document; thebutton takes you to the final page. The middle buttons enable you to go to the previous or next page. If a button is grayed out, it is not applicable. For example, if you're on the final page of a document, the "Next page"button is grayed out because no subsequent page is available.
Retracing buttons
The retracing buttons allow you to retrace your path through a document,
backward or forward. These buttons (called "Go back" and "Go
forward") are not exactly like the browsing buttons, which take you
to a previous or subsequent page in page number order. Instead, the retracing
buttons enable you to move through the pages in the order in which you visited
them. For example, if you were on page 3 of a document, then jumped ahead
to page 10, the Go Back buttonwould take return you to page 3, not take you to page 9.
Fit buttons These buttons control the magnification of the page on your computer
screen. The "Actual size" buttondisplays the page
at 100% of its size. The "Fit page" buttonreduces a page
so it appears on your computer screen in its entirety. This size may be
too small to read comfortably. The "Fit width"button adjusts
the page so its width fills the Acrobat window (minus book-marks or thumbnails,
if any).