However, selecting these viewing choices happens in slightly different places on the menu.įirst, to change from Single Page View to Enable Scrolling, select View > Page Display, and then choose from the options shown below. But you can also override global defaults for any PDF that you are viewing.Īs you will recall, the main choices for displaying a page are Fit Page, Fit Width, Single Page View, and Enable Scrolling. Page Display can be applied to global preferences for Acrobat or to an individual PDF. Or, instead of 0, try 1 and 2 and see what happens.Īs we have already discussed, page display involves the layout of the PDF. We’ll cover this in detail next, but for now, just use the key combo CMD/CTRL + 0 (zero). So here you are, having zoomed in to a microscopic view, and now you want to quickly return to the page view, either Fit Page or Fit Width. Holding down the Space Bar gives you the Hand tool, which lets you know that you can drag an area around. To do this, hold down the Tab key and drag around as desired. Once you’ve zoomed in, you might find that you want to move around the page to get to a different area. To keep zooming, just continue pressing the combo for zooming in or zooming out, as desired. The Dynamic Zoom requires less fiddling to use, and it has a keyboard shortcut that’s worth memorizing: CMD/CTRL + Plus key or Minus key. The only way to invoke the Marquee Zoom is to use the menu. The Marquee Zoom has the selection graphic, so you know it’s the one that lets you zoom by selection. The icons shown below give an indication of how each type of zoom works. The best way to quickly grasp their respective methods is to use each one. There are two types of zoom: Marquee Zoom allows you to select the precise area you want to be enlarged by clicking and dragging Dynamic Zoom is similar to steadily moving the paper closer to your face. There are several options in how you zoom, and the choices are identified in the menu, as shown below. The point is that you’ll use this tool a lot, or you’ll quickly get frustrated with viewing PDFs that have small text. The Zoom tool does this for you in a PDF. You know exactly what to do: you either hold the paper closer to your eyes or put on your reading glasses (or maybe you use a magnifying glass). Think about how often you encounter small text in a print document. by zooming in on select regions of the page.īoth of these views are useful, but zooming in is important to many people, and it’s what you tend to think the main purpose of a tool named “ Zoom” would be.from top to bottom or from the left to right margins and.Zoom allows you to view a document page two ways: The best way to get to this dialog box is to learn the keyboard shortcut, which is CMD/CTRL + SHIFT + R.īelow the Page Display menu option is the very important Zoom option. Once you’ve rotated the pages the way you want, choose Save from the File menu to lock in that preference. You also have the option of rotating the direction as follows: clockwise, counterclockwise, or 180 degrees. To do so, select Tools > Pages > Rotate, and you’ll get a dialog box like the one below.įrom here, you can choose to rotate one page or a range of pages. So, let’s talk about the only truly useful rotation method.įor that, you need to move over to the Task Pane. Thus, this option is almost always totally worthless. Nor will it let you save the rotation change you make. Using Rotate View is great if the entire PDF is not rotated correctly, but this method will not let you rotate select pages. Sometimes it's just one or two random pages. Sometimes it's a whole document that was, for whatever bizarre reason, rotated on its side. The View menu has Rotate View as its first option, probably for that very reason. One of the most common things you'll encounter in dealing with PDFs is a rotation problem.
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