Acrobat Reader Hints

General

• If you plan to browse multible PDF documents over a shorter period of time, you might want to consider to avoid exiting the reader. Just use Close from the File menu instead of Exit. A new instance of the Reader checks to see if a Reader process is already running. If so it just sends a message to the existing process to open the file, thus skipping the initialisation stage (which takes some time).
• The Reader (UNIX) saves a history of previously opened documents. The history is accessible from the File menu, and is thus a short cut to open frequently visited documents.

Notes

• In some PDF documents you may find notes similar to the coloured stick-on notes used for paper documents. In PDF documents the notes are either open or closed. Open notes just shows a scrollable window in the document. Closed notes look like document icons as you know them from many window systems. You can toggle the notes between being open and closed.

Bookmarks

• Bookmarks are very useful for efficient browsing. To activate select the menu entry View->Bookmarks and Page (or press the 2nd tool button in the toolbar below the menu bar).
• If you cannot read the bookmarks because the bookmarks window is too narrow, you can extend it by dragging the small knob located at the lower right part of the bookmarks window.

Text Search

• It is useful and fairly quick to use text search. You might want to use text search when, e.g., you have found an interesting keyword in the index, or just looking for a topic. Use Find from the Tools menu.