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Color Scheme. The Acrobat window has changed color because many users want to have more
emphasis on the document page and less on the Acrobat workspace. The contrast in color
between the background Document pane color emphasizes document pages more when the pages
are white. White is the most common page color used by most users.
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Elimination of the Status Bar. You’ll notice immediately that the familiar Status bar in Acrobat 8
is now absent. This decision was made to provide more viewing area for document pages. If you
like having tools previously found in the Status bar in view, don’t worry. I’ll explain how to create
a Status bar look in Chapter 5.
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Icons in the Navigation pane. Another obvious change in the user interface is the appearance of
icons in the Navigation pane at the far left side of the Acrobat window. Again, this change was
made to provide users more space in a crowded window. In earlier versions of Acrobat, we saw
names for the Navigation panels, such as Bookmarks, Pages, Security, Comments, Attachments,
and so on. These names took up quite a bit of real estate especially if you loaded a number of
additional Navigation panels made available by selecting View ➪ Navigation Panels and selecting
a panel from the submenu. After dragging a panel to the Navigation pane, the panels quickly
begin to crowd the available space. By using icons, you can easily store more individual panels in
the Navigation pane.
If you want to begin to associate the icons with the Navigation panel names, just open the
View ➪ Navigation Panels menu. All the Navigation panels are listed by icon and name,
including the default Navigation panels you see when you first launch Adobe Acrobat.
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Document windows with toolbars. This user interface change was again made because of strong
demand from users who wanted Acrobat to appear similar to other Windows and Macintosh pro-
grams. Although the view departs from Adobe’s Creative Suite programs, Adobe found more users
of Acrobat working in Microsoft Office and Internet Web browsers. Separate document windows
with toolbars associated with each window was the demand and Adobe responded. You can
choose in a preference setting whether to view PDF documents with or without toolbars attached
to each document.
Additional UI changes are discussed later in Chapter 5, along with some workarounds if you
happen to prefer the old Acrobat viewer look.
Acrobat Environment
Acrobat provides you with features such as menu commands, toolbars, and palettes to accomplish work for
whatever goal you hope to achieve with PDF documents. When you launch the program you see many of
these features in the Acrobat window. Just so you know what is being referred to when I discuss accessing a
feature in Acrobat, take a look at Figure 1.2 to understand the names used to describe the various areas of
the new Acrobat workplace.
A Title bar. By default, the name of the file you open appears in the title bar. The title appearing in
the title bar can change according to an option for displaying the Document Title in the Initial
View properties.
For information related to Initial View and displaying Document Titles, see Chapter 4.
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