Datasheet

L Attachments. The Attachments pane is used to show all file attachments in a document.

To learn how to use file attachments, see Chapter 12.

M Comments panel. When you open the Comments panel, the display of comments and reviews is

shown horizontally at the bottom of the Acrobat window.

To learn how to use the Comments panel options, see Chapter 20.

N Navigation pane. The Navigation pane can be expanded or collapsed. The view in Figure 1.1 is

an expanded view where the Bookmarks panel is the active pane. To open the Navigation pane

you can click a panel to display the respective information associated with that panel in the

expanded palette window. Clicking again on the panel collapses the view. You can also use the

keyboard shortcut F4 to expand and collapse the Navigation pane.

O Document pane. The Document pane is the container for PDF files you see in Acrobat. When no

file is open, the Document pane is empty. When you open a PDF document, the document

appears in the Document pane.

For more detail on specific menu commands, tools, and palettes, see the related chapters to discover the

different options available to you. All of the items discussed here are explained in more depth in subsequent

chapters.

Menus

As with any program operating on a computer system that supports a Windows type of environment, you’ll

notice menu commands at the top level of the Acrobat window. Users of previous versions will notice that

Acrobat 8 features an additional menu that contains commands specific to creating PDF forms. If at first

glance you don’t see an option you used in Acrobat 7, poke around the menus. None of the Acrobat 7 fea-

tures have been eliminated; they may just be in a different place or referred to by a different name.

File menu

The File menu is where you open and close documents, create PDF files, import and export certain data,

access print commands, and find some other nifty new additions in Acrobat. The Mac and Windows operat-

ing systems display recent files in different menus. On the Mac in OS X you’ll find recently viewed docu-

ments by choosing File ➪ Open Recent File. This command opens a submenu where you can access recent

documents. On Windows, a list of the recently viewed documents is located at the bottom of the File menu,

as shown in Figure 1.3.

Note that a new menu command, Start Meeting, appears in the File menu. This command gets

you started with Adobe Breeze as I explain in Chapter 29.

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