The Same Page

Or so someone once said. Another person also said that "there are no shortcuts to Life's greatest achievements." Well, getting everyone's feedback on time and easily so I can achieve my writing goals and deadlines is an achievement for me, and I use some shortcuts - of the keyboarding kind, that is. Here are some you can use right away with the commenting tools in Acrobat or Reader (when the document is enabled for commenting).

• To close a text pop-up (the pop-up where you type in a text note for the markup), press Escape.
• To open a text pop-up press Space or Enter Windows or Return (Mac)
• Once a comment or markup annotation is selected (you will see a border around the Note, for example, use the Tab key to move through them.
• Once a comment or markup annotation is selected, use the arrow keys to position it precisely.
• To add a new Sticky Note, press Ctrl/Cmd + 6.
• To quickly hide all comments press Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + 8. To show all comments again press Ctrl/Cmd + 8.

Check the Acrobat or Reader Help for the shortcuts to accessing the various comment and markup tools themselves. And if I learn about any more shortcuts - or if you know of any that you can share - I'll update this entry.

Posted by Ali Hanyaloglu at 7:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

The Acrobat.com team are hosting a weekly eSeminar series right now. Next up: an eSeminar on how Acrobat 9 works with Acrobat.com for document-based collaboration, on July 15 from 4:30pm GMT/3:30pm UTC/11:30am EDT/8:30am PDT, presented by myself and Tad Staley.

To attend, simply go to http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/aclearn/ up to 15 minutes before the scheduled start time. Sign in as a guest and you will be taken to an Acrobat Connect Pro room. Conference call information will be provided inside the Acrobat Connect room.

For more information on the eSeminar schedule visit the Acrobat.com forum.

Hope to see you online!

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Good news. Adobe Reader 9 is now available for download from the Adobe website. You can download it for your version of Windows (2000 SP4 or higher) or Mac OS X (10.4.11 or higher) from here.

So if you now have Acrobat 9 Pro or Pro Extended, and want to start using Acrobat.com for Shared Reviews, or page view sharing (Acrobat 9 Standard too), or to let others get the full experience of a PDF Portfolio, and you don't know if they have Acrobat 9 yet, well fear not, because now they can get Reader 9 to collaborate with you!

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