Adobe Acrobat Professional DC Quick Start

Adobe Acrobat Professional DC Quick Start

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GETTING STARTED

The documents that you will bring into this program are called Portable Document Files

(PDF).

To open a PDF file for viewing, follow these steps:

Launch Adobe Acrobat DC. If you are using a Mac, double-click the Acrobat icon at the

bottom of the screen inside the Dock. If you are using a PC, go to Start (Windows Icon) in

the bottom left-hand corner of the screen and find it in the list of programs provided.

In the main menu, go to File > Open (Figure 1).

Figure 1

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CHOOSING TOOLBAR

There are two ways to turn your toolbar options on or off.

METHOD 1:

I. On a Macintosh or a Windows machine, in the menu items across the top of the screen,

click

View > Tools (Figure 2a is a Mac screen shot, Figure 2b is a Windows Screen shot).

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Choose which tool you would like to work with from the list.

Figure 2a.

Figure 2b.

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I. On your screen click on Tools in the upper left of the screen (Figure 3). This will allow

you to view the icons shown below. Click on the icon pertaining to the tool you want to

use. For example, if you are creating a new PDF, click on that icon which is indicated by

the blue arrow below. If you need to see more icons, use the scroll bar indicated by the

red rectangle shown below.

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ZOOMING

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There are two ways to zoom in and out in your document. Choose one of the following:

Click the Control button on a Windows machine or the Command button on a Mac and

simultaneously click the plus sign or minus sign on your keyboard.

Use the HUD (Heads Up Display) shown in Figure 4. Use the + and ¨C bubbles to increase

and decrease your view.

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VIEWING

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Select the Hand tool indicated by the orange circle from the HUD shown in Figure

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Click and drag in the document to freely move the viewing area.

Figure 5

You can remove the HUD by right clicking on the gray, top menu bar (Figure 6).

Unclick Menu Bar indicated by the red square in Figure 7.

Figure 7.

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PAGE LAYOUT AND ORIENTATION

If you need to see more than one page of the document at once, you have a variety of view

options.

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Go to View > Page Display (Figure 8)

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You can choose from Single Page View (Figure 9), Single Page with Scrolling, (Figure 10),

Two Page View (Figure 11), or Two Page View with Scrolling (Figure 12).

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Figure 11.

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CREATING PDF FILES

Any text document from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Notepad or Text Edit can be

converted to a PDF.

Again, there are two ways you can create a PDF file.

METHOD 1:

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In the main menu, go to File > Create > PDF from File. (Figure 13)

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Select the document you wish to convert

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Click Open.

IV. Adobe Acrobat will convert the document and open it for viewing.

Figure 13.

METHOD 2:

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Click on Tools in the upper left of the screen (Figure 3) on page 4 of this tutorial.

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Two more options that you can explore are Dragging and Dropping

your file from the desktop (Mac users only) and Combining Files.

Dragging and Dropping your file is helpful for quickly creating your PDF

and Combining Multiple Files helps reduce the amount of files you have

by consolidating everything into one. Refer to Figure 3 and click on the

Combining Files icon (Figure 14).

Figure 14.

If you would like to email someone a picture or snapshot you have made, you can make

your file into a PDF so that it can be viewed easily via email. Launch Adobe Acrobat Pro

DC and use the Create PDF icon. Select Single or Multiple Files and click the blue Create

button. Navigate to the place your picture resides on your computer. Go to File > Save

As and name your file. Click Save.

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COMBINING MULTIPLE FILES

If you need to convert several files, for example a Word document and an Excel chart into one

PDF you can use the option Combine Files into a Single PDF. To combine files, follow these

steps:

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