Introduction
Welcome to Nuance PDF Reader 6! This product lets you view and work with PDF files. Its key features let you: Zoom and rotate pages, use bookmarks to navigate in documents, jump to defined pages, view all PDFs in the current folder. Add highlights, cross-outs and underlines to PDF text. Find texts in one or more PDF files from file information or textual content. Convert XPS files to PDF, print files and save PDF attachments. View and handle PDF packages and portfolios (grouped files). Fill in and save PDF forms for convenient submission avoid the hassle of photocopying and paper mailing. Verify digital signatures and sign your PDF documents. Enjoy support for leading Document Management Systems.
The ability to create PDF files, to do advanced commenting and to apply security are beyond the scope of this PDF Reader. Such features and many more are provided by Nuance PDF Converter Professional 6.
PDF flavors
There are three basic types of PDF files. PDF Reader can open all three types: PDF Image: The PDF pages are presented as images so the content is fixed and cannot be edited or searched. They can contain comments and form controls, since these are not part of the real PDF content. PDF Searchable: The PDF pages are presented as images, guaranteeing content integrity, but the files contain a text layer behind the page images so file content can be searched, but the real PDF page content cannot be modified. They can contain comments and allow form filling. PDF Normal: The PDF pages have editable and searchable content. This editing of real PDF page content (such as with a Touch-Up or Typewriter Tool) can be performed by PDF editors such as Nuance PDF Converter Professional in this case protection against unauthorized changes can be achieved by security settings.
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Use the Window menu to switch between open files and Edit / Preferences / General to set start-up and page display options.
Document Panel
Navigation Panel
The View bar lets you change the display style of the PDF files. From left to right: rotate the view of the current document, step to the previous viewing location, jump to the next, previous or defined page, zoom in or out, scale the page display, choose the display style. The Navigation Panel on the left can present Bookmarks, Destinations, Pages, Model Tree or Signatures. In the diagram above it is set to Pages, displaying two page thumbnails. The Document Panel is displaying the indicated part of page two from the current document. The panel at the bottom can present comments or attachments. In the diagram above it is showing a list of attachments, and has buttons to open the current attachment or save selected attachments to a single location. Use the View menu or toolbar to decide what to display in the Navigation Panel and the Attachments or Comments panel.
Toolbars
The following toolbars are available. Use View / Toolbars to show or hide them. Toolbars can be docked in the toolbar area or floated into the working area; click the row of dots on the left of a toolbar and drag it to the desired floating location. Drag it back to the toolbar area to re-dock it. Use the lower options under View / Toolbars to Reset toolbars to their delivery arrangement, to hide or show all toolbars, to show or hide button labels (explanatory texts) or to customize which buttons to display on each toolbar. When a toolbar is floated you can catch an edge to resize it, for instance to display the buttons vertically. Here are the available toolbars with tools named from left to right.
STANDARD TOOLBAR: Hand, Select Text, Select Image. The Hand tool is the basic cursor. Select it to stop working with any other tool. COMMENTS TOOLBAR: Highlight, Cross-out, Underline. (on a drop-down list, from top to bottom)
VIEW TOOLBAR: All available navigation panel contents are listed on a drop-down list.
FORMS TOOLBAR: Highlight Fields, Reset Fields. (Grayed if current page does not contain an active form control)
DMS TOOLBAR: Open from DMS, Save to DMS Each detected DMS will have a toolbar to open whole PDF or XPS files one at a time from the DMS and to save PDF files in the same way. If no DMS is detected this toolbar does not appear. The picture shows the Microsoft SharePoint toolbar.
All controls are hidden in Full Screen; this is usually used for presentations. The pointer remains active, so you can click links or open notes. Use keyboard shortcuts for various commands such as magnification, printing, and searching, etc. Set preferences under Edit / Preferences / General / Full Screen.
Using grids and rulers Choose View / Grid, (Ctrl + U) to show grids on the page. Click again to remove grids. Choose View / Rulers (Ctrl + R) to show horizontal and vertical rulers along with an indication of the cursor position. Click again to remove them. Define grid and ruler properties under Edit / Preferences / General. Rotating pages Use the View menu or the View bar to rotate the document display by steps of 90 in either direction. This does not change the page orientation in the PDF file. Zooming pages You can enlarge or reduce a page to any size within the range of the minimum and maximum zoom levels. When you zoom to a size larger than the window, use the Hand tool to move the page.
Click the Zoom buttons beside the magnification level box on the View bar to expand or reduce the current Document View. Choose a preset zoom value or enter a value directly. Select the Zoom-in button enlarge the view. Select the Zoom-out button in the Zoom toolbar or the View menu to to reduce it.
While a Zoom tool is selected, press the Ctrl key to switch between the Zoom-in and Zoom-out tool. Use tools on the View bar to fit the horizontal display to the window width or to fit the whole page display to the limits of the window. The zoom factor will then change automatically if the window is resized. The Dynamic Zoom tool lets you to enlarge or reduce page view according to the mouse movement. Drag up to zoom in, drag down to zoom out. The Loupe tool lets you click an area of interest to see an enlarged page view within the loupe area. You can change the scale of the loupe and move the loupe freely within the program window. 1. Choose the Loupe tool from the Zoom toolbar. 2. Select a page area the loupe window appears. 3. Select a magnification the displayed area is framed on the page. 4. Move the framed area to view other parts of the image in the loupe. 5. Change the frame color as desired.
6. Close the loupe window when you are done. Viewing other parts of a page Use the Hand tool to move around the page. Define its behavior on mouse click in Edit / Preferences / General / Miscellaneous. By default the action is nothing, but it can jump to the next page or start scrolling the display downwards. The Pages display in the Navigation panel can be used to move around the page, as shown on page 5. A red box in the thumbnail shows which part of the page is being displayed. Drag corners of this box to change the part of the page that is visible in the Document Panel.
Reading Comments
Comments already existing in PDF files you open in PDF Reader can be viewed and these are summarized in the Comments panel at the bottom of the screen. Supported comment types are notes, text boxes, callouts, text markups (highlight, cross-out etc.), drawing elements and file or sound attachments.
Adding Comments
PDF Reader 6 lets you add three types of comments, using the Comments toolbar: Highlight the text you next select. Cross-out the text you next select. Underline the text you next select. These added comments also appear in the Comments panel, together with the date and the name of the comment maker. To add a comment, click the desired tool in the Comments toolbar or menu, then use the comment cursor to select the words you want to mark.
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words, the program finds only occurrences where those words appear one after the other in the given order. A found string is highlighted. The tools Find and Search are not available for Image PDF files.
To do a portfolio search, the current document must be a portfolio or a package. Packages can also be searched using the portfolio commands, since they are a simplified form of portfolio and are displayed in the portfolio viewer. Search results are presented in the lower part of the search dialog box. Each occurrence shows a line of text with the found string colored blue. Click on a line to jump to the page containing the text. The number of occurrences is shown bottom-right. For a folder search, after entering a search string, you can click Advanced to specify additional search criteria that help you find a specific file among many. Under Key choose a PDF file information category (Subject, Author, Creation date etc). Under Value enter a search string or a date and under Operation choose whether the search string should be included or excluded, or make date searching choices. Add criteria as desired; searches will find only files that meet ALL the criteria you define.
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Use Edit / Preferences / Forms to decide how forms will be displayed and function. Choose to have field values automatically calculated whenever the form contains numerical controls with calculations defined. Choose whether the focused form control should have a border or not and choose colors for the field highlighting required fields can be given a different color. An auto-complete function can be defined to speed up repeated form filling. Returning the filled form To return a filled form, click its Submit button if it has one (this may require JavaScript to be enabled). Or save the form and send it via e-mail. Or print the whole filled form and send it by fax or post. Another option is to print the empty electronic form before filling it, then fill it in PDF Reader, place the empty form in your printer and print your responses onto it by choosing Form fields only in the Print Content list box. If you receive the form as an active PDF and also on paper (maybe in color), you can fill the electronic form, put the form in your printer and print just your responses onto it as described above.
Verifying signatures
You may receive a document (not necessarily a form) containing a digital signature. Click inside the signature to verify it. A dialog box provides two verification results: Whether or not the document has been modified since it was signed Whether or not the signature can be verified as authentic. This requires web access.
Click List view to see a list of files and folders with related information.
Nuance PDF Reader 6 Reference Guide
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Both displays let you move to sub-folders and view the files there. The current path is displayed under the portfolio bar, top-left. Use it to navigate between folder levels. Non-PDF files are displayed as icons; double click the icon and choose the Open button to display the file in the application associated with the file type. Click the Save button to save non-PDF files to your local file system, outside the portfolio. To save a PDF file, select it and click the Save button in the portfolio bar and choose Save File from Portfolio in the dropdown list. Recent PDF editors can compile portfolios: Nuance PDF Converter Professional 6 has that ability.
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DMS support
The following DM systems are supported. Menu items and toolbars will appear for all DM systems correctly installed on your computer. Hummingbird EnterpriseTM 2005 Interwoven WorkSite 7.5.1 and 8.3 (Note: Using DeskSite 8.3 under Windows Vista operating systems is highly recommended.) Hummingbird DOCSOpen 4.0 Refer to the DOCSOpen installation guide to perform the client installation. When it is done, the program will be able to connect to the server. Livelink ECM - Enterprise Server 9.7.0. from OpenText Corp. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2003 and 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0
In some DM systems you can find a menu item for PDF or XPS files Open in PDF Reader. If you have specified Nuance PDF Reader as your default program for PDF or XPS files, a double-click on a file name or icon will launch Reader and display the file. In all cases except SharePoint, access is achieved through the interface of the DM system itself; you may need to enter access information. Access to Microsoft SharePoint is achieved through an interface provided by PDF Reader. It consists of three linked dialog boxes. The Open from SharePoint dialog box lets you view PDF files and convert XPS files to PDF. Type a user name and password if prompted. Choose a site by double-clicking its icon in the left panel and view its top-level content on the right. Specify a file type and select the desired folder. Click Open to see the next lower level content. Repeat until you find the desired file; select it and click Open. Icon coloring shows which sites are connected, which is active with a tick for the default site. Use the Look in selection box and buttons in the upper right corner to navigate in the folder structure and move in the display history. Choose Sites to display the SharePoint Sites dialog box to specify further locations. Click Add to define a new site in the Connection Settings dialog box. The Save to SharePoint dialog box functions similarly.
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Legal acknowledgments
This software is based, in part, on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. The software is based, in part, on the work of Colosseum Builders, Inc. The software is based, in part, on the work of the FreeType Team. The software is based, in part, on the work of Kakadu Software. The software is based, in part, on the zlib Compression Library. The SoftwarePassport/Armadillo Software Protection System Copyright 1998-2007 by the Silicon Realms Toolworks. All Rights Reserved. This software is based, in part, on the PNG Reference Library (libpng). InstallShield 2008 Copyright 1997-2007 Macrovision Corporation and/or Macrovision Europe Ltd. All Rights Reserved. AES encryption/decryption copyright 2001, Dr Brian Gladman, Worcester, UK. All Rights Reserved. This product includes elements developed by the OpenSSL project, including software written by Eric Young and Tim Hudson. Implements Adobe Architecture XFA specification 2009 Adobe Systems Incorporated All Rights Reserved. Development tools from Microsoft 2009 Microsoft Corp. All Rights Reserved.
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