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Of these factors, you can change only the current zoom setting either with
the buttons in the Viewing toolbar (see Table 2-2) or the options on the View
menu. Zoom out to get an overview of the document’s layout. Zoom in to
make the text large enough to read.
The How To window is a new feature in both Adobe Reader and Acrobat 6 that
provides help and dialog boxes for common tasks, displays the online help
guide for both programs, and takes up a significant portion of the Document
window. To quickly display or hide the How To window in both the Windows
and Macintosh versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat 6, press F4. See Chapter
3 to discover more about the How To window.
The best way to zoom in on some document detail (be it lines of text or a
graphic) is to click the Zoom In tool (or press Z, its hot key) and then use the
magnifying-glass pointer to draw a bounding box around the desired text or
graphic. When you release the mouse button, Adobe Reader zooms in on the
selected area so that it takes up the entire width of the Document pane.
At the bottom left of the Document pane, you find the status bar, which gives
you valuable information about the current PDF file you’re viewing. The
status bar also enables you to advance back and forth through the pages and
to change how the pages are viewed in the Document pane (the default set-
ting is a single page at a time). Figure 2-4 helps you identify the status bar
buttons.
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Musical toolbars
You don’t have to leave the five Adobe Reader
toolbars in the original arrangement. You can
move them to new rows or even move them out
of the top area of the screen so that they float
on top of the Navigation or Document pane. To
move a toolbar, you drag it by its separator bar
(the slightly raised vertical bar that appears
before the first button in each toolbar). As you
drag, a dark outline appears at the mouse
pointer until you release the mouse button and
plunk the toolbar down in its new position. Note
that when you release the toolbar in the
Navigation or Document pane area, the Adobe
Reader reshapes the toolbar so that its buttons
are no longer in a single row and gives the tool-
bar its own title bar. You can move the floating
toolbar by clicking the title bar and dragging the
window to a new location, but you can’t change
the shape of the toolbar. To close a floating tool-
bar, click its close button. To dock a floating
toolbar, drag it by its title bar until its outline
assumes a single-row shape, and then drop it in
place. These features also apply to the
Navigation toolbar, which is not displayed by
default in Adobe Reader or Acrobat 6.
