Adobe Acrobat 7 TIPS and TRICKS THE 100150 BEST [Electronic resources]

Donna L. Baker; Kristin Kalning; Becky Morgan; Judy Ziajka

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  • TIP: 78 Configuring the Pages Pane

    The default layout of the Pages pane displays a single column of small thumbnail pictures of the pages. The default is fine for most kinds of work when you have a document consisting of several pages. However, when working with a very large document, you might want to make the thumbnails smaller and increase the number of thumbnail columns to see more at once. If you have to be able to see the content of the thumbnails, you'll want to increase their size.

    Managing Thumbnails

    You can choose to embed or unembed thumbnails. Which is best? Embedded thumbnails add to a file's size. On the other hand, if you embed the thumbnails when you're working with large documents, opening, closing, resizing, and scrolling through the Pages pane is much speedier. Embed thumbnails from the Pages pane by choosing Options > Embed All Page Thumbnails; unembed by choosing Options > Remove Embedded Page Thumbnails.

    Be careful when using embedded thumbnails. Although they give you an instant view of the pages, changes you make to your pages are not updated in embedded thumbnails. To display the thumbnails with your changes, you have to unembed the old ones first and then re-embed the edited ones.

    To increase or decrease the size of thumbnails, choose Options > Enlarge (or Reduce) Page Thumbnails. Use a thumbnail size that is meaningful. In Figure 78, the thumbnails are set to the smallest size availableso small that they are of limited reference value. Conversely, you can enlarge thumbnails to the size of the Document pane, but that pretty much defeats the purpose.

    Figure 78. You can change the size of page thumbnails in the Pages pane. These thumbnails are too small for you to see their content, but you can look at various page sizes and orientations.

    Resize the Pages pane to see your thumbnails if necessary. Move the pointer over the right margin of the panel. When it changes to a double-ended arrow and vertical bars, click and drag to the left or right to adjust the size of the pane.

    Bigger or Smaller?

    Decrease the size of the thumbnails when working with large documents. This gives you a better overview of the content and can reveal such problems as irregular page sizes.

    Increase the size of the thumbnails when working with images or slideshows. You can quickly sort through, reorder, and change pages working from the Pages pane when you see the content clearly.

    You can change the display of the page in the Document pane from the Pages pane. Click and drag the lower-right corner of the page-view box displayed on the page's thumbnail to increase or decrease its size; increasing the size shows more of the page in the Document pane while decreasing the magnification. Decreasing the size shows less of the page in the Document pane while increasing the magnification.

    You can also drag the page-view box around the thumbnail. The content outlined by the page-view box on the thumbnail is shown in the Document pane.