Datasheet

As you become familiar with the tools, you can return to the context menu opened from the Toolbar Well

and choose Button Labels ➪ No Labels. When No Labels is active, your toolbars shrink and offer you more

room in the Toolbar Well.

Palettes

Other tools available to you in all Acrobat viewers are palettes. Palettes are similar to toolbars in that they

can be docked to a docking station called the Navigation pane; they can be undocked and floated around

the Acrobat window; they can contain pull-down menus for selecting more options; a series of default

palettes appears docked in the Navigation pane; and you can open additional palettes from menu

commands.

A couple distinctions between toolbars and palettes are that palettes can be placeholders for information,

and tools can appear inside a palette. Whereas tools are used in the Document pane, many palette opera-

tions take place directly in the palette. Toolbars remain relatively fixed in size, but palettes can be sized and

stretched along the Acrobat window to provide you with more room to work within the palette or view the

information contained within the palette. In addition, some palettes contain their own tools where edits can

be made in the palette and dynamically reflected on the document page. Palettes help you organize content,

view specific content across many pages, and provide some tools for global editing of PDF files.

Default palettes

As with toolbars, Acrobat displays a series of palettes docked in a well when you first launch the program.

Palettes are contained in the Navigation pane along the left side of the Acrobat window. By default, the

Navigation pane is collapsed; however, you can save PDF documents in such a manner where a palette

expands when a file is opened in any Acrobat viewer. These settings are document-specific and can be tog-

gled on or off for individual PDF documents.

For more information about setting opening views for palette displays, see Chapter 4.

Pages

Acrobat users have been familiar with the thumbnail view of each page since the early days of Acrobat.

A mini view of each page in the active PDF document is displayed in the Pages pane, as shown in Figure

1.39. The Pages pane offers you menu options for arranging, deleting, inserting, and editing pages in a

number of ways. You can zoom in to the thumbnail views as large or even larger than a page viewed in the

Document pane.

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