Adobe ACROBAT READER 4.0

Contents

•Using Acrobat Reader

•Printing PDF documents

•Using Reader for UNIX

•Viewing PDF documents

•Navigating PDF documents

•Filling out forms

•Copying and pasting text and

graphics to another application

•Using PDF on theWeb

•Calibrated color

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Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0

Adobe

Acrobat

Reader 4.0

Adobe

Acrobat

Reader can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe

Web site at http://www.adobe.com.On the AdobeWeb site home page,you

can click a country name in the Adobe Sites pop-up menu to choose a

language for viewing the site.The exact information in the site may vary from

one language version to another.

Using Acrobat Reader

The Acrobat Reader allows anyone to view,navigate,and print documents in

the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

You may make and distribute unlimited copies of Acrobat Reader,including

copies for commercial distribution,as long as each copy you make and

distribute includes all of the following:

■

The Acrobat Reader installer,exactly as provided by Adobe

■

The Acrobat Reader Electronic End User License Agreement

■

The following attribution statement on any media and packaging that

includes Reader:

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“Acrobat

ReaderCopyright

1987-1999AdobeSystemsIncorporated.Allrights

reserved.Adobe,the Adobe logo,Acrobat,and the Acrobat logo are trade-

marks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.”

The Acrobat Reader Electronic End User License Agreement and proprietary

notices are contained in the Reader or Reader installer program.You are

expressly prohibited from modifying or creating your own installer for the

Acrobat Reader software.Details on the terms of use for the Acrobat Reader

products are found in the Acrobat Reader Electronic End User License

Agreement presented during installation of each product.

A special“Includes Adobe Acrobat”logo is available from Adobe for use when

distributing Acrobat Reader.See the AdobeWeb site (www.adobe.com)

for details.

Opening PDF documents

The creator of a PDF document can set the document to open in a variety of

ways.For example,a document might open to a particular page number,at a

particular magniﬁcation,or with the bookmarks or thumbnails visible.

If a document is set to open in Full Screen view,the tool bar,menu bar,and

window controls are not visible.You can exit Full Screen view by pressing

Escape,if your preferences are set this way,or by pressing Ctrl+L (Microsoft

Windows

and UNIX

) or Command+L (Mac OS).For more on this view,see

Reading documents in Full Screen view.

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To open a PDF document:

Do one of the following:

■

Click the Open button ,or choose File > Open.In the Open dialog box,

select the ﬁlename,and click Open.PDF documents usually have the

extension .pdf.

■

Choosethedocument’s ﬁlename fromthe Filemenu.The menulists the four

PDF documents you last opened.

■

Double-click the ﬁle icon in your ﬁle system.

Note:

In MacOS,youmaynot beabletoopena PDFdocument createdin

Windowsbydouble-clicking theicon.Ifdouble-clickingthe iconinMacOS

doesnotopenthedocument,useFile>Open inAcrobatReadertoopenthe

document,closethe document,andtryagain.Afteryou’veusedtheOpen

commandonceonthe document,you’llbeabletoopen thedocumentnext

timebydouble-clicking.

In Acrobat Reader 4.0,you can view and print PDF documents that contain

Japanese,Korean,Traditional Chinese,and Simpliﬁed Chinese text if you use

the appropriate language kit at installation.

To display a list of all Acrobat Reader command-line options (UNIX),start the

Acrobat Reader product with the -help option.For example:

acroread -help

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Viewing PDF documents on theWeb

You can view PDF documents that are on theWorldWideWeb or an intranet

using aWeb browser.Every document on theWeb is identiﬁed by a unique

address called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).When a PDF document is

stored on theWeb,you can click a URL link to it to open the document in your

Web browser.

Reading PDF documents in a Web browser

PDF documents can display inWeb browsers compatible with Netscape

Navigator

4.0 (or later) or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (or later).The

necessaryplug-insareautomaticallyinstalledwhenyouinstallAcrobatReader.

For information on getting your browser ready,see Installing theWeb browser

plug-in.(If pages of your PDF document appear blank when viewed in aWeb

browser,you may be using an early version of aWeb server.Try saving the PDF

ﬁle locally,and viewing it using Acrobat Reader.)

When you view a PDF document in aWeb browser,all of the Acrobat Reader

tools are available in the browser.InWindows,you can click the two small

vertical lines (next to the Adobe icon at the left of the tool bar) to minimize or

maximize the tool bar.

Note:

Many keyboardcommandsare mappedtotheWebbrowserratherthan

toAcrobatReader,sosome AcrobatReaderkeyboardshortcutsmay notbe

availableinthebrowserwindow.

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Opening a PDF ﬁle embedded as an OLE object in

another ﬁle

You can read PDF documents that have been incorporated into other

documentscreatedbyanyOLE (ObjectLinking andEmbedding)1.0 orOLE 2.0

container application such as MicrosoftWord,Excel

,or PowerPoint

To view an embedded PDF ﬁle:

Open the document into which the PDF document has been embedded.

Double-click the Acrobat icon in the document.Acrobat Reader launches

and displays the activated PDF document.

Note:

Youcannotmakechangesor savewhileinAcrobatReader.

Printing PDF documents

You can print and view PDF documents from Acrobat Reader.

To print a PDF document:

Use File > Page Setup to set general printing options.The available options

will vary with different printers and drivers.See your printer driver documen-

tation for details.

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Click the Print button ,or choose File > Print.Specify the printer,page

range,number of copies,and other options,and click OK.Most of the options

are the same as they are for other applications,but note the following:

■

Selected Pages Or Selected Graphic (Windows) or SelectedThumbnails/

Graphic (Mac OS) prints only the pages or page area you selected before

opening the Print dialog box.

■

Page From/To prints a range of pages.InWindows,if the Use Logical Page

Numbers option is selected in General preferences,you can enter page-

position numbers in parentheses to print those pages.For example,if the ﬁrst

page of a document is numbered“iii”,you can enter (1) to print that page.

■

Annotations prints annotation graphics on the pages.The annotations are

printed as closed,even if they are open on the pages online.

■

FitToPagescales pagesupor down(andif necessary rotatesthem) toﬁt the

paper size currently installed in your printer.This is not available in most other

applications.

■

PrintAsImage(Windows)printsthepagesasbitmapimages.(InMacOS,this

is set in the Print Method pop-up menu.)You may want to print pages as

images if they have too many fonts to print as PostScript

or if the pages use

non-embedded Asian fonts not available on your system.

■

Print Method,inWindows,speciﬁes which level of PostScript to generate for

the pages.Choose the level of PostScript appropriate for your printer.In Mac

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OS,this speciﬁes whether to print using PostScript (without selecting level) or

to print pages as bitmap images.

■

Force Language Level 3 (Mac OS) prints the pages using LanguageLevel 3

PostScript.Select this option if you’re printing PostScript to a ﬁle rather than to

a printer and you want to use LanguageLevel 3 PostScript.(When you send

PDF to a printer,let the printer driver specify what level of PostScript to use.)

This is available only when you choose PostScript in the Print Method pop-up

menu;ifyouchoosePostScriptinthemenuanddonotselectthisoption,Level

2 PostScript is used.

■

Download Asian Fonts downloads Asian fonts to a PostScript printer.Select

this option if you want to print a PDF document with Asian fonts but do not

have the fonts installed on the printer and do not have the fonts embedded in

thedocument.(Embedded fontsaredownloaded whetheror notthisoption is

selected.)You can use this option with a PostScript Level 2 or higher printer,or

a Level 1 printer that supportsType 0 font extensions.

Note:

Somefontscannotbedownloadedtoaprinter,eitherbecausethefontis

abitmaporbecauseembeddingofthefontisrestrictedin thatdocument.In

thesecases,a substitutefontisusedfor printing,and theprintedoutputmay

notmatch thescreendisplayexactly.

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If Download Asian Fonts is not selected,the PDF document prints correctly

only if the referenced fonts are installed on the printer.If the fonts are not on

the printer but the printer has similar fonts,the printer substitutes the similar

fonts.If there are no suitable fonts on the printer,Courier is used for the text.

If youhave aPostScript Level 1printer thatdoes not supportType 0fontexten-

sions,or if Download Asian Fonts does not produce the results you want,print

the PDF document as a bitmap image.Printing a document as an image may

take longer than using a substituted printer font.

■

Use Printer Halftone Screens prints halftones using the printer’s halftone

screens.If you do not select this option,the halftones are printed using

halftone information from the PDF ﬁle.

Note:

IfUsePrinterHalftoneScreens isnotselected,and ifthehalftoneinfor-

mationsent totheprinterfromthe PDFﬁleisnotappropriate forthatprinter,

thescreens mayproduce“muddy”images.

Printing PDF documents from the command line (UNIX)

Besides printing directly from within Reader by choosing File > Print,you can

printPDFﬁlesfromthecommandline.Toprinttheﬁle

sample.pdf

tothedefault

printer,type the following:

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% cat sample.pdf | acroread -toPostScript | lp

Note:

IfaPDFﬁlehas beensecuredwithanOpenpasswordordoesnotallow

printing,youwill notbe abletoprintfromthe commandline.

You can use options to control your print job from the command line.Options

available to Reader are the following.

To create a LanguageLevel 2 PostScript ﬁle:

-level2

To print a PDF ﬁle to a differently named PostScript ﬁle:

-pairs <pdf filename> <PostScript filename>

For example,to print

sample.pdf

test.ps

,you would use the following syntax:

acroread -toPostScript -pairs sample.pdf test.ps

To use the printer’s default halftone screens instead of custom halftone

screens included in the ﬁle:

-printerhalftones

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