Before you begin
We're rolling out a new, more intuitive product experience. If the screen shown here doesn’t match your product interface, select help for your current experience.
Last updated on
Oct 30, 2023
|
Also applies to Adobe Acrobat 2017, Adobe Acrobat 2020
- Acrobat User Guide
- Introduction to Acrobat
- Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Opening and viewing PDFs
- Working with online storage accounts
- Acrobat and macOS
- Acrobat notifications
- Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
- Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
- Workspace basics
- Creating PDFs
- Editing PDFs
- Edit text in PDFs
- Edit images or objects in a PDF
- Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
- Edit scanned PDFs
- Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
- Optimizing PDFs
- PDF properties and metadata
- Links and attachments in PDFs
- PDF layers
- Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
- PDFs converted to web pages
- Setting up PDFs for a presentation
- PDF articles
- Geospatial PDFs
- Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
- Change the default font for adding text
- Delete pages from a PDF
- Scan and OCR
- Forms
- PDF forms basics
- Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
- Create and distribute PDF forms
- Fill in PDF forms
- PDF form field properties
- Fill and sign PDF forms
- Setting action buttons in PDF forms
- Publishing interactive PDF web forms
- PDF form field basics
- PDF barcode form fields
- Collect and manage PDF form data
- About forms tracker
- PDF forms help
- Send PDF forms to recipients using email or an internal server
- Combining files
- Combine or merge files into single PDF
- Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
- Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
- Crop PDF pages
- Add watermarks to PDFs
- Add backgrounds to PDFs
- Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
- Publish and share PDF Portfolios
- Overview of PDF Portfolios
- Create and customize PDF Portfolios
- Sharing, reviews, and commenting
- Share and track PDFs online
- Mark up text with edits
- Preparing for a PDF review
- Starting a PDF review
- Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
- Participating in a PDF review
- Add comments to PDFs
- Adding a stamp to a PDF
- Approval workflows
- Managing comments | view, reply, print
- Importing and exporting comments
- Tracking and managing PDF reviews
- Saving and exporting PDFs
- Security
- Enhanced security setting for PDFs
- Securing PDFs with passwords
- Manage Digital IDs
- Securing PDFs with certificates
- Opening secured PDFs
- Removing sensitive content from PDFs
- Setting up security policies for PDFs
- Choosing a security method for PDFs
- Security warnings when a PDF opens
- Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
- Protected View feature for PDFs
- Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
- JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
- Attachments as security risks
- Allow or block links in PDFs
- Electronic signatures
- Sign PDF documents
- Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
- Send documents for e-signatures
- Create a web form
- Request e-signatures in bulk
- Collect online payments
- Brand your account
- About certificate signatures
- Certificate-based signatures
- Validating digital signatures
- Adobe Approved Trust List
- Manage trusted identities
- Printing
- Accessibility, tags, and reflow
- Searching and indexing
- Multimedia and 3D models
- Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
- Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
- Displaying 3D models in PDFs
- Interacting with 3D models
- Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
- Setting 3D views in PDFs
- Enable 3D content in PDF
- Adding multimedia to PDFs
- Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
- Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
- Add comments to videos
- Print production tools (Acrobat Pro)
- Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
- PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
- Preflight profiles
- Advanced preflight inspections
- Preflight reports
- Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources
- Output intents in PDFs
- Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
- Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
- Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
- Additional checks in the Preflight tool
- Preflight libraries
- Preflight variables
- Color management
Enhance PDF Presentations with full-screen mode and page transitions
Full-screen mode allows you to set PDFs for Presentations, filling the entire screen and hiding Acrobat's menu bar, toolbar, and window controls.
You can establish consistent initial views for your documents or collections of documents.
Page transitions can be added to create visual effects as viewers navigate through the document.
Set initial view
When users open your PDF document or Portfolio, they see the initial view. You can set the initial view to your desired magnification level, page, and layout.
In Acrobat Pro, Action wizards enable changing default settings for multiple documents.
To set the initial view:
- Go to
> Document properties. - From the dialog, select the Initial View tab.
- Modify the settings as desired:
- Navigation tab - Determines which panels are displayed in the navigation pane.
- Page layout - Determines how the document pages are arranged.
- Magnification - Sets the zoom level for the document after it's opened. The default uses the magnification set by the user.
- Open to page - Specifies the page that appears when the document opens.
- Window Options - Determines how the window adjusts in the screen area when a user opens the document. These options apply to the document window itself in relationship to the screen area of the user’s monitor.
- Interface Options - Determines which parts of the interface—the menu bar, the toolbars, and the window controls—are hidden.
- For Presentations:
- Select Open in Full Screen mode check box.
- For the Navigation tab, select Page Only.
- For Page layout, select Single Page.
- Set Open to page to the page where you want to start the presentation.
- Select Ok.
- Save and reopen the file to view the effects.
Note:
In full-screen mode, users can press the "Esc" key to exit if their preferences permit it. However, users can only execute commands or choose tools using keyboard shortcuts. To maintain functionality, consider setting up page actions within the document.
Note:
Two factors can alter page layout and magnification:
- A PDF has a distinct initial view set in > Document properties > Initial View.
- The option "Restore last view settings when reopening documents" might be selected under > Preferences > Documents.
Selecting Default for the Magnification and Page Layout options will follow the user's settings in the Page Display preferences.
If you hide the menu bar and toolbars, users can only use commands or select tools with keyboard shortcuts. Consider creating page actions that temporarily conceal interface controls while the page is visible. See Add actions with page thumbnails.
Add page transitions
You can create engaging effects when advancing pages by using page transitions. Acrobat Pro's Actions wizard allows you to set page transitions for multiple documents.
-
From the All tools menu, select Organize pages > Page transitions.
Or select the desired page thumbnails in the Page thumbnails panel, then choose Page transitions from the Options menu.
-
In the Page transitions dialog, pick a transition effect from the Transition menu. These effects are identical to the ones in the Full Screen preferences.
-
Select the direction and speed of the transition effect. Options vary based on the transition.
-
Select Auto Flip and enter the time interval in seconds for automatic page turning. If this option isn't selected, users must turn pages using keyboard commands or the mouse.
-
Specify the Page Range to which the transitions should apply.
Note:If the 'Ignore All Transitions in the Full Screen' setting is enabled in Document preferences, users won't see the page transitions. Acrobat also supports PowerPoint's page transitions and bullet fly-ins.
