PDF on the small screen: Power Search tutorial in QT
Design Tools Monthly, a commercial newsletter aimed at graphics design professionals, summarizes timely articles, tips and other useful information from a broad range of design industry magazines and websites.
Coverage includes both Acrobat and Reader, which in a sense is also a tad self-serving, since the monthly newsletter is made available to paid subscribers in PDF. It behooves publisher and editor Jay Nelson to have newsletter readers who are savvy with PDF files, in part so they appreciate the various user-enabling features he and the staff build into each issue–including bookmarks, active weblinks and article threads.
TThe DTM website currently features a free-to-view Quicktime video clip that highlights the publication’s helpful navigational elements and provides a demonstration of how to take full advantage of the search functionality built into Acrobat and Reader. The “PDF Power Search” [QT: 17.3 MB] tutorial reviews both basic and advanced search capabilities, showing how a newsletter subscriber can maintain a folder of of archived issues and then easily search them using various criteria–search terms are highlighted in the results.
The site offers a free sample issue for download.
