Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What’s new
- Chapter 2: Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Opening and viewing PDFs
- Navigating PDF pages
- Adjusting PDF views
- Adjust page magnification
- Resize a page to fit the window
- Show a page at actual size
- Change the magnification with zoom tools
- Change the magnification with the Pan & Zoom Window tool
- Change the magnification with the Loupe tool
- Change the magnification by using a page thumbnail
- Change the default magnification
- Display off-screen areas of a magnified page
- Set the page layout and orientation
- Use split-window view
- View a document in multiple windows
- Adjust page magnification
- Grids, guides, and measurements
- Maintaining the software
- Activation and registration
- Adobe Product Improvement Program
- Services and downloads
- Non-English languages
- Chapter 3: Creating PDFs
- Overview of creating PDFs
- Creating simple PDFs with Acrobat
- Scan documents to PDF
- Using the Adobe PDF printer
- Creating PDFs with PDFMaker (Windows)
- Converting web pages to PDF
- Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller
- Adobe PDF conversion settings
- Fonts
- Chapter 4: PDF Portfolios and combined PDFs
- PDF Portfolios
- Other options for combining files
- Adding unifying page elements
- Add and edit headers and footers
- Add and edit backgrounds
- Add, replace, or edit a background, with an open document
- Add, replace, or edit a background, with no document open (Windows only)
- Add, replace, or edit a background for component PDFs in a PDF Portfolio
- Update a recently edited background image
- Remove a background from selected pages
- Remove a background from all pages
- Add and edit watermarks
- Crop pages
- Rearranging pages in a PDF
- Chapter 5: Saving and exporting PDFs
- Chapter 6: Collaboration
- File sharing and real-time collaboration
- Preparing for a PDF review
- Starting a review
- Participating in a PDF review
- Tracking and managing PDF reviews
- Commenting
- Annotations and drawing markup tools overview
- Commenting preferences
- Change the look of your comments
- Add a sticky note
- Mark up text with edits
- Stamp a document
- Create a custom stamp
- Add a line, arrow, or shape
- Group and ungroup markups
- Add comments in a text box or callout
- Add an audio comment
- Add comments in a file attachment
- Paste images as comments
- Managing comments
- Importing and exporting comments
- Approval workflows
- Chapter 7: Forms
- Forms basics
- Creating and distributing forms
- About form elements
- Create forms using Acrobat
- Create online forms using FormsCentral
- Enable Reader users to save form data
- Adding JavaScript to forms
- Create form fields
- Lay out form fields on a grid
- Copy a form field
- Select multiple form fields
- Resize and arrange form fields
- About barcodes
- Create, test, and edit barcode fields
- Set form field navigation
- Distribute (send) forms to recipients
- Form fields behavior
- About form field properties
- Modify form field properties
- General tab for form field properties
- Appearance tab for form field properties
- Options tab for form field properties
- Actions tab for form field properties
- Calculate tab for form field properties
- Set the calculation order of form fields
- Signed tab for form field properties
- Format tab for form field properties
- Validation tab for form field properties
- Value tab for form field properties
- Manage custom barcode settings
- Redefine form field property defaults
- Setting action buttons
- Publishing interactive web forms
- Collecting and managing form data
- Filling in forms
- Chapter 8: Security
- Application security
- Content security
- Opening secured documents
- Choosing a security method
- Securing documents with passwords
- Securing documents with certificates
- Certificate security
- Encrypt a PDF or PDF Portfolio with a certificate
- Change encryption settings
- Remove encryption settings
- Sharing certificates with others
- Get certificates from other users
- Associate a certificate with a contact
- Verify information on a certificate
- Delete a certificate from trusted identities
- Securing documents with Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES
- Setting up security policies
- Digital IDs
- Removing sensitive content
- Chapter 9: Digital signatures
- About digital signatures
- Comparing ink signatures with digital signatures
- Setting up signing
- Setting up signature validation
- Signing PDFs
- Validating signatures
- Signatures panel overview
- Validate a signature manually
- Validate a timestamp certificate
- View previous versions of a signed document
- Compare versions of a signed document
- Trust a signer’s certificate
- PDF Portfolios and digital signatures
- XML data signatures
- Checking the validity of a signature
- Establish long-term signature validation
- Manage trusted identities
- Chapter 10: Accessibility, tags, and reflow
- Accessibility features
- Checking the accessibility of PDFs
- Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
- Creating accessible PDFs
- Making existing PDFs accessible
- Chapter 11: Editing PDFs
- Page thumbnails and bookmarks
- Links and attachments
- Converted web pages
- Articles
- Text and objects
- Setting up a presentation
- Document properties and metadata
- Layers
- Actions and scripting
- Using Geospatial PDFs
- Chapter 12: Searching and indexing
- Chapter 13: Multimedia and 3D models
- Multimedia in PDFs
- Interacting with 3D models
- Displaying 3D models
- 3D toolbar overview
- Examples of model rendering modes
- Change rendering mode, lighting, projection, and background
- Model Tree overview
- Hide, isolate, and change the appearance of parts
- Create cross sections
- Measure 3D objects
- Measuring preferences
- Change camera properties
- Set 3D views
- 3D preferences
- Comment on 3D designs
- Run a JavaScript
- Chapter 14: Color management
- Chapter 15: Printing
- Chapter 16: Keyboard shortcuts

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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD
Keyboard shortcuts
Last updated 10/11/2011
Keys for navigating task panes
Keys for general navigating
Result Windows Action Mac OS Action
Move focus to the next item among
Document pane, Task panes, Message
bar, and Navigation bar
F6 F6
Move focus to the previous item among
Document pane, Task panes, message
bar, and Navigation bar
Shift+F6 Shift+F6
Move focus to the next panel in the Task
pane
Ctrl+Tab Command+Tab
Move focus to the previous panel in the
Task pane
Ctrl+Shift+Tab Command+ Shift+Tab
Navigate to the next panel and panel
control within an open Task pane
Tab Tab
Navigate to the previous panel and panel
control within an open Task pane
Shift+Tab Shift+Tab
Navigate to the next command button
within a panel
Down Arrow Down Arrow
Navigate to the previous command
button within a panel
Up Arrow Up Arrow
Expand or collapse panel in focus (Press
F6 to move focus to Tools pane, then tab
to desired panel.)
Spacebar or Enter
Left Arrow or Right Arrow
Spacebar or Enter
Left Arrow or Right Arrow
Open the menu and move the focus to
the first menu option when focus is on a
command with a sub-menu or sub-menu
element with a flyout
Spacebar or Enter Spacebar or Enter
Move the focus back to the parent
command button with a sub-menu or
sub-menu element with a flyout
Esc Esc
Run the command in focus Spacebar or Enter Spacebar or Enter
Open Pages panel and navigate to
command buttons
Alt+V+T+P. Press F6 bring focus to
panel. Use arrow keys to navigate
within panel.
Result Windows/UNIX Action Mac OS Action
Move focus to menus (Windows, UNIX);
expand first menu item (UNIX)
F10 Control+F2
Move focus to toolbar in browser and
application
Shift+F8 Shift+F8
Move to next open document (when
focus is on document pane)
Ctrl+F6 Command+F6
Move to previous open document (when
focus is on document pane)
Ctrl+Shift+F6 Command+Shift+F6