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Using eBooks & eTexts—Quick Reference Guide

A guide to Adobe Reader 7.0 and how to use it to read

ShortCourses and PhotoCourse eBooks and eTexts.

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Using eBooks & eTexts—Quick Reference Guide

eBooks published by ShortCourses and eTexts

published by PhotoCourse are in Adobe’s popular

PDF format and work just like any other PDF

documents. Here are a few of the things about

working with PDF books that you may or may not

already know.

are interactive and game-like so move the mouse

around to see what you can click and what

effect clicking has. Clicking the copyright symbol

returns you to the opening screen. To close the

animation window just click the browser window’s

close button.

USING READER 7.0 OR LATER

• PDF documents open in your browser so you

can read, save, or print them.

If you are not sure which version of Acrobat

Reader you are using, select Help>About Adobe

Reader to display the version number. If it is not

Version 7.0 or later, go to Adobe at http://www.

adobe.com/ to download and install a free copy.

• Excel worksheets ﬁrst open the Microsoft Excel

application if it is on your system and it then

opens the worksheet.

• Miscellaneous resources vary but may include

movies or interactive VR panoramas you can

scroll around.

PLAYING ANIMATIONS

Animations and other resources are integrated

throughout the books and are indicated by icons.

When you click one of these icons, a resource

is retrieved from our Web site and displayed on

your screen. The types of resources include the

following:

DISPLAYING HELP

For help on using Reader 7.0, press F1, click the

Help button on the toolbar, or select Help > Adobe

Reader Help to display the help window. Use

the Contents , Search , or Index tabs to locate

the information you are seeking. The Print Topic

button prints the currently displayed help.

• Animations are in the Flash format and open

in their own window. The opening screen has

two basic controls—a Play button and a copyright

symbol. If you wait a few moments the animation

appears automatically, or you can click the Play

button to play it immediately. Most animations

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OPENING THE ETEXT

To display these panes if they are not already

displayed select View > Navigation Tabs and select

the tabs you want displayed.

On a PC, use My Computer or Windows Explorer

to display the contents of the CD. On a Mac,

insert the CD into the drive and it will appear on

the desktop. Double-click the ﬁle named Index.

html to open it. This page has information about

the eBook/eText and a button you click to open

it in Acrobat Reader. You can also open Acrobat

Reader ﬁrst and then use its File > Open command

to locate and open the eBook/eText.

• Pages tab displays thumbnails of every page in

the book like a visual index. Click any thumbnail

to jump directly to it. To change the size of

thumbnails click the Options drop-down arrow at

the top of the pane.

• Bookmarks tab lists a complete table of

contents to the book. Click any topic to jump

directly to it. You can open and close chapters

to display or hide the headings under them by

clicking the + and - icons.

CLOSING THE BOOK

When done for a session, select File > Close to

close the eBook/eText but leave Acrobat Reader

open. Select File > Exit to close Acrobat Reader.

To close the navigation tab click the X next to the

Options drop-down arrow.

NAVIGATING THE BOOK

When an eBook/eText is open on your screen

There are a number of ways to navigate through

its pages.

The Navigation Bar has blue buttons you click to

move through the book a page at a time or jump

to the ﬁrst or last page. (The bar isn’t shown in

full screen mode.) Path Navigation buttons , in

green, let you move back and forth along the

path you have taken through the work using any

of the other navigation techniques. For example,

if you use entries on the Bookmarks tab to jump

The book’s Contents entries following the preface

are linked to pages in the book. Click any entry

to jump directly to that page.

A navigation pane along the left side of the page

displays tabs for Bookmarks and Pages . You

can use either to navigate through the book.

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from page 1 to 10 to 20, clicking the Previous

View button jumps you back ﬁrst to page 10,

then to page 1. In a classroom situation, you

might prepare by clicking through the pages you

want to display and then use these buttons to

actually navigate those pages as you present the

material.

Command+L (Macs) or Ctrl+L (PCs).

You can turn full screen view into a slide show

by selecting Edit > Preferences to display the

Preferences dialog box. With that dialog box

displayed, click Full Screen to display your

options. For a slide show, turn on the check box

for Advance every 5 seconds . When on, when

you switch into full screen view, the pages are

displayed as a slide show. Other settings in this

section of the Preferences dialog box control

navigation and page appearence in full screen

view.

Page Layout buttons in the lowerright corner of

the screen determine how pages are displayed

on your screen. Your choices include (from left

to right) Single Page (perhaps the best for our

books), Continuous , Continuous - Facing and

Facing .

LISTENING TO THE ETEXT

Although the text has not been designed for

listening, Acrobat Reader does a surprisingly

good job of it. To turn this feature on and off

select View > Read Out Loud and make selections

from the menu.

DISPLAYING THE ETEXT

When viewing or presenting to a group, full

screen mode is best because all of the clutter is

hidden. To hide everything but the document,

select Window > Full Screen View and page

through the document with the arrow or PgUp

and PgDn keys. To return to the normal view,

press Esc. You can also toggle in and out of full

screen display by clicking the Full Screen button

in the lowerleft corner of the window or pressing

ZOOMING THE PAGES

To zoom the pages larger or smaller, click

the Zoom button on the toolbar (or select

Tools > Zoom) and select a tool. The Dynamic

Zoom tool zooms the document just by dragging

the mouse up and down. The other tools work by

clicking a spot on the page.

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When ﬁnished, click the New Search button to

search for something else or the Hide button to

hide the search pane.

The Zoom toolbar also has other buttons that

ﬁt the document vertically or horizontally on

the screen, and zoom it in and out. The drop-

down arrow to the right of the listed percentage,

displays a menu of sizes from which you can

choose.

For a complete guide to Acrobat Reader 7.0, click

the link that follows. This 262 page guide will tell

you much more about this free program than this

short quick reference guide.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

SEARCHING THE ETEXT

The cover of

the free 262

page Acrobat

Reader 7.0 PDF

guide.

eBooks and eTexts don’t need indexes because

they have much more powerful tools—ﬁnding and

searching.

• The Edit > Find command displays a small dialog

box where you enter the word or phrase you

are looking for and then click the Next button

repeatedly to ﬁnd each occurrence of the word or

phrase.

• The Search button on the ﬁle toolbar (it’s

marked with a pair of binoculars) opens a search

pane on the right side of the screen. Enter the

word or phrase you want to ﬁnd and click the

pane’s Search button. All occurrences of the word

or phrase are listed in the order in which they

appear in the document. Click through them.

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