User manual
Magnifying and reducing the view
The toolbar and status bar offer several methods for magnifying the view of PDF
documents:
● The Zoom In and Zoom Out tools let you change the document's magnification.
● The Dynamic Zoom tool lets you zoom in or out by dragging the mouse or mouse wheel
up or down.
● The Pan & Zoom Window tool lets you use a small window to adjust the magnification
and position of the view area, similar to using a page thumbnail.
● The Loupe tool lets you view a magnified portion of a PDF document in a small window.
This tool is especially useful for zooming in to see fine details in PDF documents.
Magnification options on toolbar A. Zoom In tools B. Zoom Out button C. Zoom menu D. Zoom
In button
To increase or decrease magnification:
Do one of the following:
● Click the Zoom In button or the Zoom Out button in the toolbar, or select a
magnification percentage from the toolbar menu.
● From the Zoom menu in the toolbar, choose the Zoom In tool or the Zoom Out
tool
, and then click the page. To zoom in on a specific area, use the Zoom In tool to
draw a rectangle. When you're finished zooming, you may want to select the Hand tool.
● Click the magnification percentage area in the toolbar, type a new percentage, and press
Enter or Return.
● From the Zoom menu in the toolbar, select the Dynamic Zoom tool , and then drag up
to zoom in to the area where you begin dragging, or drag down to zoom out from that
location. If your mouse has a mouse wheel, you can roll it forward to zoom in or
backward to zoom out.
When the Zoom In tool is selected, you can hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Option
(Mac OS) while clicking or dragging to zoom out. When the Zoom Out tool is selected,
hold down Ctrl or Command to zoom in. With either zoom tool, hold down Shift to use
the Dynamic Zoom tool.
To change the magnification by using the Pan & Zoom window:
1. Choose Tools > Zoom > Pan & Zoom Window, or select the Pan & Zoom Window
tool
from the Zoom menu in the toolbar.
2. Do any of the following:
● Drag the handles of the box within the Pan & Zoom window to change the document
magnification.
● Drag the center of the box to pan across the area you want to see.
● Click the navigation buttons to move to a different page.
● Enter a value in the zoom text box.
To change the magnification level by using the Loupe tool:
1. Choose Tools > Zoom> Loupe, or select the Loupe tool from the Zoom menu in the
toolbar.
2. Click the area of the document you want to view in closer detail. A rectangle appears in
the document. If you want to change the color of the rectangle, click the Line Color menu
and select a color.
3. Do any of the following in the Loupe Tool window to change the magnification level:
● Drag the slider.
● Click the plus or minus buttons.
● Enter a value in the zoom text box.
Use the Loupe tool to view a magnified area of the document.
To change the magnification level by using a page thumbnail:
1. Click the Pages tab on the left side of the window to view the page thumbnails. Each
thumbnail represents a page.
2. Locate the thumbnail for the current page, and then position the pointer over the lower
right corner of the page-view box until the pointer changes.
3. Drag the corner of the box to reduce or expand the view of the page.
A page-view box in a page thumbnail indicates the area of the page currently showing in the
document pane.
To resize a page to fit the window:
Do one of the following:
● To resize the page to fit entirely in the window, choose View > Fit Page, or click the Fit
Page button
on the toolbar.
● To resize the page to fit the width of the window, choose View > Fit Width, or click the
Fit Width button
on the toolbar. Part of the page may be out of view.
● To resize the page so that its text and images fit the width of the window, choose
View > Fit Visible. Part of the page may be out of view.
To see keyboard shortcuts for resizing the document, open the View menu and
notice the shortcuts for each command.
To return a page to its actual size:
Choose View > Actual Size, or click the Actual Size button on the toolbar. The actual
size for a PDF page is typically 100%, but the document may have been set to another
magnification level when it was created.