Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is the open de facto standard for electronic document distribution worldwide. Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all the fonts, formatting, graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of the application and platforms used to create it. Adobe PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as intended by anyone with Adobe Acrobat Reader software.

Here you will find a brief description of Acrobat Reader's main functions enabling you to fully view the books you buy from ZONEZERO editions.

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• Opening the document
• Toolbar
• Page view
• Special Functions

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Opening the document

Once the electronic book is stored in your computer, double-click on the file's icon and the Acrobat Reader aplication will open it automatically.

Our books are designed to be viewed in a full-screen mode when opened. Pages are seen with a black background and your computer's desktop or other open applications will remain hidden.

If you wish to exit this presentation mode press the ESC and you will see the normal mode:

Full-screen mode	Normal mode

To return to full-screen mode press the CONTROL key (for PC) or the APPLE + L keys (for Mac).

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Toolbar

On the top of the screen you will find the toolbar:

Here, the most impotant Acrobat Reader functions are located:

Tool	Function	Icons
General Functions	These functions allow you to save or print documents.
Paging arrows	You can move from one page to another consecutively or you can go to the beggining or the end of the document with a single click.
ZOOM tool	You can zoom in or out pages or images. This tool also appears by pressing APPLE + SPACE BAR (Mac) or CONTROL+ SPACE BAR (PC). You can scroll through the page using the hand tool.
	You can also set the zoom in or out numerically.
Display	These tools allow you to have different views of the page (full-page, half page, rotate, etc.)
Search	You can look for specific words in the document.
Show / Hide thumbnails	You can show or hide the thumbnail palette to select a page.

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Page View

To turn to the next page use your keyboard arrow keys.

You can go either to the first or to the last page of the document with a single click by using the fast-advance paging arrows in the status bar.

With the normal paging arrows you can go back and forth linearly.

You can go to a specific page by entering the page number in the status bar (left bottom of the screen):

Type the number of the page you wish to see

The status bar also contains useful information about the document such as its size and/or the document's security.

You can quickly select and view a page by using the thumbnail palette.

Click on the button, and the thumbnail palette will appear showing the thumbnails of all the pages in the document.

Click over the thumbnail to see the page you want

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Special Functions

Some of our books have features unique to electronic books created in PDF format, such as links between chapters and sections.

To know if there is an element of the document that has a link or special function the "active function" icon will appear over it. See the following example:

With a single click on the link you can go to any chapter of the book from the index; you can also open a web page in your browser from your book.

To get more information about the PDF format or the Acrobat Reader program visit: www.acrobat.com

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