
Click on the page display icons located to the right of the Select & Zoom toolbar to control whether your PDF pages will display individually or continuously. Gone are the duplicate navigation tools that were present at the bottom of the window. Navigation controls are located by default in the second row of toolbars. You can use your Up and Down Arrows keys to navigate through either the Pages panel or document pane, and you can use Tab and Shift-Tab to navigate through a document page.Ĭontrols for your PDF documents are now accessed either through the Acrobat menu bar located at the top of the Acrobat work area, or through Acrobat toolbars located below the menu bar and above the currently active Acrobat window. The number of page thumbnails visible in the Pages panel will increase, and the dimension of the document pane will automatically contract. Now click-and-drag with this icon to the right to expand the dimensions of the Pages panel. Move your cursor just past the right side of the Pages panel until your cursor becomes a double-line icon. STEP 3 Enlarge the Pages Panel and Navigate Click on the top icon to see the Pages panel shown here. The presence of the How To icon replaces the Help palette that used to appear when you selected it from the Help menu. These icons replace the tabs from previous versions of Acrobat. Along the left side of your window in the navigation pane, you’ll see a series of icons that represent various options, including (by default) from top to bottom: Pages, Bookmarks, Signatures, How To, Attachments, and Comments. Your document page will appear on the right side. Select File>Open and select a multipage PDF document. You can also access this wizard at any time by selecting Help>Getting Started. You can also prevent this wizard from appearing by clicking the Do Not Show at Startup checkbox in the upper-right corner. You can close this window to enter the Acrobat 8 interface. Just click on a task button and the wizard will lead you through a multibranching tutorial session. It contains eight task buttons, including the Create PDF shown here.

This wizard launches automatically when you launch Acrobat. Becoming familiar with the new workspace and interface in Acrobat 8 will allow you to better take advantage of its new streamlined design and its many new features and capabilities.Īcrobat 8 provides an interactive training wizard called Getting Started. You can also customize how the interface looks.


The interface components also change depending upon the type of PDF file you’re viewing, such as PDF forms, PDF packages, or a standard PDF file, and on whether you’re viewing your PDF through Acrobat or through your Internet browser. The interface of Acrobat 8 has a new look and feel that presents a less-cluttered work area.
