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Viewing and Buying PDF on the Web
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Reconfiguring your Web browser
In Acrobat 5.0, if the Web Buy plug-in determines that your browser settings are
configured improperly, you will be prompted to allow Acrobat to change them.
Viewing PDF documents on the Web
You can view PDF documents that are on the World Wide Web or an intranet using a Web
browser. Every document on the Web is identified by a unique address called a Uniform
Resource Locator (URL). When a PDF document is stored on the Web, you can click a URL
link to it to open the document in your Web browser.
Reading PDF documents in a Web browser
PDF documents can display in Web browsers compatible with Netscape Navigator 4.0 (or
later) or Internet Explorer 4.5 (or later). The necessary plug-ins are installed automatically
when you install Acrobat. For information on getting your browser ready, see
“Installing
the Web browser plug-in” on page 212
.
Note:
Netscape Navigator 6.0 is not compatible with Acrobat’s Web browser plug-in and
does not support viewing PDF documents in the browser.
When you view a PDF document in a Web browser, all of the Acrobat Reader tools are
available in the browser.
Note:
Many keyboard commands are mapped to the Web browser rather than to Acrobat,
so some Acrobat keyboard shortcuts may not be available in the browser window.
Searching in a Web browser
Some Web search engines index PDF documents as well as HTML documents on Web
servers. And some search engines support PDF search highlighting, although not all
search engines that support PDF indexing support search highlighting.
If you visit a Web site that uses a search engine that indexes PDF documents, your search
results list may include PDF documents. If the Web site uses a search engine that supports
PDF search highlighting, and if you open one of the PDF documents in the search results
list, the Highlight Next button
and the Highlight Previous button
activate on the
Acrobat command bar in your Web browser. The search term is also highlighted in the
document.
To go to the next search hit, click the Highlight Next button. To go to the previous hit, click
the Highlight Previous button.These two commands jump across PDF documents, but not
across HTML documents.
Enabling Fast Web View
With Fast Web View, the Web server sends only the requested page of information to the
user, not the entire PDF document. As a reader of the PDF document, you do not have to
do anything to make this happen; it is communicated in the background between Acrobat
and the Web server. If you want the entire PDF document to continue downloading in the
background while you view the first page of requested information, be sure Allow
Background Downloading is selected in the Web Browser Options section of the General
Preferences > Options dialog box (default). For more information, see
“Setting Acrobat
preferences” on page 28
.