This is a great way to scroll through a document to look for a specific page - as opposed to going through it one page at a time. One of the buttons on the narrow sidebar on the left is an option to reveal page thumbnails (which you can increase or decrease the size of). You’ll also find a rotate button if the document’s orientation isn’t right. If the writing is too small for you, take advantage of the magnifying tool, combined with the Hand tool, so you can move around the enlarged page with ease.

Use the Down and Up arrow keys to go to the next or previous page (should your PDF contain more than one). Create a whole new window with other tabs is also possible, although you’ll also generate a copy of the Home and Tools tabs for that window as well. This means you can open multiple files at any one time. Once you’ve opened a PDF into Acrobat Reader, it’ll appear as a new tab, top of the interface. The zoom tool is most useful if you find the PDF’s layout a little too small for you (Image credit: Adobe) However, you don’t actually need an account to do the basics such as seeing your recently opened docs, ‘Star’ them, to essentially pin them to the top of the list (or see them in the ‘Starred’ section), and access all files on your hard drive.Īdobe Acrobat Reader DC: Reading experience Taking a look at the sidebar, you’ll find that most of the menus require you to sign in to your Adobe Creative Cloud account. Click on ‘Tools’ to see all the features you can use… but there’s a catch: even though it looks like you can use the ones with a little blue star next to them, and even though you can go as far as selecting files, the moment you activate the feature, you’ll be sent to pay for and download Reader’s bigger brother, Acrobat DC.Ĭoming from one of the biggest app makers on the market, this is a bit disingenuous.

Top left is a tab bar, although it doesn’t quite look like a tab bar. Once you’ve launched Acrobat Reader, you’ll be graced with a very sparse interface, with a sidebar on the left, some recommended tools at the top, and a list of recent PDFs you’ve opened. The Reader DC interface is big, clean, with a lot of free space everywhere (Image credit: Adobe)

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