Wyoming Newspaper Project
Help with Adobe Acrobat
Displaying Search Results in Acrobat Reader XI
Acrobat Reader XI no longer allows search highlights from an external highlight server. After you conduct your search and open a newspaper file, you may use the Acrobat Reader Find Text tool 
to locate your search terms within that page.
Download New and Previous Versions of Adobe Reader
If you would like to download an older version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can use this link http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
Displaying the Toolbar in Acrobat Reader XI
The default toolbar view mode in Acrobat Reader XI is the Read Mode display, which is a disappearing toolbar. If you mouse over that toolbar and click the squiggly A it will toggle the toolbar to the top, but that goes away with every new PDF you open. To have the toolbar permanently on top, open Acrobat Reader 10 outside of the browser, choose Edit --> Preferences --> Internet, and untick "Display in Read Mode by default", then press OK. You can always minimize that toolbar by clicking the "View File in Read Mode" button, which is a square button with two arrows.
Tips for Adding Magnifcation and Search Tools Acrobat Reader XI
Right click on the toolbar, go to Edit --> Find and that will set the Find Text button (magnifying glass) or the Advance Search button (binoculars) on your toolbar. Feel free to remove the extra buttons you may not need frequently. Access to those tools is available if you right click on the toolbar and select the tool. Add other buttons you may use frequently, like the dynamic zoom tool (magnifying glass), and the image select tool (camera). These changes should stick so you only have to do them once.
Mozilla has released Firefox version 19 with an embedded PDF viewer.
At this time the embedded PDF viewer does not allow hit highlighting in ArchivalWare. To disable the Firefox viewer and use the Adobe Reader plugin follow the instructions below:
1. Launch Firefox - In the address bar type about:config (if you see a void warranty message ignore and click "I'll be careful, I promise"). Find the "pdfjs.disabled" parameter in the list and double click to change to "true".
2. From the top menu in Firefox, select Options>Options>Applications and make sure that for Adobe Acrobat Document "Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox)" is selected.
Restart Firefox, you should then be able to view pdfs inside Firefox using the Adobe plugin.
If you have Adobe Acrobat installed you must follow the additional step below;
4. From the top menu in Firefox, select Help>Troubleshooting Information. Go to Application Basics, then Profile Folder and click on Show Folder. A window with your profile directory will open. Delete the following two files inside your profiles directory:
mimetypes.rdf
pluginreg.dat
Exit Firefox. When you restart Firefox, you should be able to view pdfs inside Firefox using the Adobe plugin.
Displaying Search Results in Acrobat Reader 9
Go to Edit > Preferences > Search and check the box to "Enable search highlights from external highlight server". This option is by default turned off. It should be turned on to view the highlighted text of the search results.
Tips for Adding Magnifcation Tools Acrobat Reader 9
Right click in a blank space on the Acrobat Reader toolbar, go to More Tools and a box will appear that lists the options:
Select the tools you wish to add to the toolbar. We recommend the Hand Tool, the Marquee Zoom, Zoom In and Zoom Out, Actual Size and Fit Width. You will only need to do this once, and Acrobat Reader will remember your settings across sessions and with different browsers. Click OK to save your changes.
Printing
There are many printing options in Acrobat Reader. You can scale the printing to fit the printable area, shrink or fit, or tile large format pages.
Options in the Print dialog box
Most of the options in the Adobe Acrobat® Print dialog box are the same for other applications, however there will be some minor variations that are operating system specific.
- None
- Prints the upper left or center of a page (if auto-rotated and centered) without scaling. Pages or selections that don’t fit on the paper are cropped.
- Fit To Printable Area
- Reduces or enlarges each page to fit the printable area of the currently selected paper size. For PostScript® printers, the PPD determines the printable area of the paper.
- Shrink To Printable Area
- Shrinks large pages to fit the currently selected paper size but doesn’t enlarge small pages. If an area is selected and is larger than the printable area of the currently selected paper, it’s scaled to fit the printable area. This option is always active during N-up printing.l
- Tile Large Pages
- Applies tiling to pages that are larger than the selected paper size at the specified scale. These pages are mapped to multiple sheets of paper. If this option is selected, you can also specify settings for Tile Scale, Overlap, Cut Marks, and Labels.
- Tile All Pages
- Applies tiling to all pages, regardless of size. However, only the pages that are larger than the selected paper size at the specified scale are mapped to multiple sheets of paper. If this option is selected, you can also specify settings for Tile Scale, Overlap, Cut Marks, and Labels.
- Multiple Pages Per Sheet
- Enables N-up printing, where multiple pages print on the same sheet of paper. If this option is selected, you can also specify settings for Pages Per Sheet, Page Order, Print Page Border, and Auto-Rotate Pages.
Contact
Erin Kinney
erin.kinney@wyo.gov
Wyoming State Library
2800 Central Ave.
Cheyenne, WY 82002