5/15/01: Technical support information for the .pdf version of The Interpreter's Companion is currently available on the subjects listed below. No technical support information for the Palm version has yet been posted.
Finding Terms
Going to a Particular Numbered Page
View Options
Single Page vs Continuous
Zoom Levels
Default
Selecting
Viewing Text in Illustrations
Finding Terms
To find a term, go to the Edit menu and click Find. Or, click the binocular icon. In either case, the Find dialog box appears. Type the term you want to find, and then click the Find button. Acrobat Reader finds the next occurrence of that term, forward from your current location in the document (unless you checked the Find Backwards box, in which case Reader finds the next occurrence of the term, backward from your current location).
To find the next occurrence of the same term, press Ctrl-G.
To find Spanish terms containing accented letters or other special characters, you will have to enter the numeric (ANSI) codes that specify the special characters. On Windows-based systems, this is done with the Alt key and the numeric keypad. For example, to enter "cáncer" in the Find dialog box, you would type "c[Alt-0225]ncer". "[Alt-0225]" means that you hold down the Alt key while typing 0225 on the numeric keypad. The numeric codes for all the necessary special characters are shown below:
á: 0225
é: 0233
í: 0237
ó: 0243
ú: 0250
ü: 0252
ñ: 0241
Note: In addition to Find, the Adobe Acrobat Edit menu includes a function called Search, which is not found in the Acrobat Reader Edit menu. Do NOT try to use Search to find terms. Its purpose is different and is not applicable to The Interpreter's Companion/PDF.
Going to a Particular Numbered Page
To go directly from wherever you are in the document to a particular page, go to the Document menu and click Go To Page. Or, press Ctrl-N. In either case, the Go To Page dialog box appears, allowing you to specify the number of the page you want to go to.
Knowing what number to enter can be a little bit tricky, however. The Interpreter's Companion/PDF starts with ten pages of front matter, numbered with roman numerals i through x. Page x is followed by pages 1 through 288. This is standard practice for printed books, and The Interpreter's Companion/PDF was developed directly from the printed version of The Interpreter's Companion, Fourth Edition.
Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, however, see The Interpreter's Companion/PDF as a 298-page document, with pages numbered 1-298. Therefore, entering "2" in the Go To Page dialog box will take you to page ii, NOT to page 2. Entering "3" will take you to page iii, NOT to page 3, and so on.
Use numbers 1 through 10 to go to pages i through x. Use numbers 11 through 298 to go to pages 1 through 288.
View Options
Single Page vs Continuous
By default, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader start up in Single Page View mode. This means that, as you scroll past the bottom of a page, that page suddenly disappears, and the next page appears. You never see the bottom of one page and the top of the next page on the screen simultaneously. If you want to be able to see parts of two pages at once, you can change the View to Continuous. To do this, go to the View menu and click Continuous. Or, click the little page icon at the bottom of the screen next to the page size ("6 x 9 in"). With Continuous selected, you can scroll smoothly through the document with no abrupt jumps from one page to the next.
Zoom Levels
Default
Acrobat and Acrobat Reader can display The Interpreter's Companion/PDF at a large number of different magnifications. The default on opening the document is Fit Width. This means that the document's pages will be sized to take up the full width of your screen. On most screens, this means that the full length of the page will not be displayed—you'll have to scroll up and down to see all of the page. This is generally the best zoom level to use when reading the document.
Under some circumstances, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader spontaneously change the zoom level without your having specifically requested it. This can be disconcerting, but is easily remedied. When you use the hot links in the Table of Contents, for example, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader take you to the specified page and automatically switch to a full page view. On most screens, it is impossible to read the text at this zoom level—it is only appropriate for a general view of the page layout. To specify the zoom level you want, refer to the next section.
Selecting
There are four different ways of specifying zoom level in Acrobat Reader:
from the View menu
using the page-size icons next to the binocular icon
using the magnifying glass icon
using the percentage zoom box in the lower left corner of the screen
There's a lot of overlap among these four methods, and they're all pretty self-explanatory and/or intuitive. The important thing to note is that you can use any of them to return to the Fit Width View.
Viewing Text in Illustrations
The callout text in the illustrations for The Interpreter's Companion/PDF differs in size from one illustration to the next, depending, primarily, on how much text had to be fit into the illustration. The result is that some callout text is difficult to read on the screen when the View is Fit Width or smaller. When you send these illustrations to a printer, the callout text should be perfectly readable. But if you want to be able to read it on your screen, you may need to zoom in on it.
As mentioned in the last section, there are a number of ways to change your zoom level in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader, and you can use any of them to get a closer view of the callout text in the illustrations. The magnifying glass is probably the best tool for this purpose, though. It allows you to zoom in on a specific callout, without having to specify a magnification level and then scroll the screen to the material you're interested in.
Click the magnifying glass icon to select it. Then position it at any corner of an imaginary rectangle surrounding the callout you want to zoom in on. Hold down the left mouse button, and drag the icon to the opposite corner of the imaginary rectangle. You then get a highly magnified view of only that material within the rectangle.
To resume your previous view, click the right mouse button, and then select the view you want from the pop-up.
If you are unable to find the answer to your question or problem on this page, please email ACEBO Technical Support.
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