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Using the Image Viewer and
Picture Tasks Plug-ins
Acrobat 6 comes with two new built-in plug-ins — the Image Viewer plug-in that
allows you to view PDF slideshows and eCards created in Adobe Photoshop
Album, and the Picture Tasks plug-in that lets you extract JPEG images sent in a
PDF document created in Adobe Photoshop Album, Photoshop Elements 2.0,
or Acrobat 6 using JPEG source files. You can export JPEG images and save
them on your hard drive for editing in a graphics editing program like
Photoshop, print them using standard photo print sizes and layouts, or send
them over the Internet to an online service bureau that makes professional
prints out of your digital images and mails them to you.
Viewing slideshows with the
Image Viewer plug-in
Adobe Photoshop Album is a new program that lets you organize and share digi-
tal photos. When you get a whole bunch of photos organized in the program,
you can then share the bounty with others by creating high-quality slideshows
with music and transitions, as well as eCards (personal greetings sent via
e-mail), calendars, books, and much more. Presentations you create in Adobe
Photoshop Album can be converted to PDF and viewed using Acrobat 6 or
Adobe Reader 6. When you perform a complete install of Acrobat 6, the Image
Viewer plug-in is automatically installed. Note that the Image Viewer plug-in is
only available in the Full rather than Standard version of Adobe Reader 6.0.
The first time you open a PDF slideshow, eCard, and so on, it is likely to start
playing automatically in Full Screen mode because that is the default option
when creating these presentations in Photoshop Album. After the slide show
has run its course, an Adobe Picture Tasks message box appears, letting you
know how special this particular PDF file is and how you can do so much more
using the Picture Tasks features (described in the next section). Select the Don’t
Show Again check box in the bottom left corner of the message box (unless you
like this type of reading every time you open a PDF graphic document), and
then click OK to close the message box and view the presentation in Acrobat 6.
Figure 16-13 shows a typical Adobe Photoshop Album PDF slideshow dis-
played in Acrobat 6 after it has initially played. You can use the text and
image selection tools on the Basic toolbar to select, copy, edit, or delete ele-
ments in the presentation. See Chapter 10 for more on editing PDF docu-
ments. You can also save it and even send it off to somebody else by
choosing File➪E-mail. Of course if you read the big, fat, Adobe Picture Tasks
message box mentioned in the preceding paragraph, you’d know that you can
also use commands on the Picture Tasks menu to further your fun with
Photoshop Album presentations.
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