Ted Padova’s AUC Blog

Applies to both Acrobat 7 & 8

Want to stay on top of the blogs here in the Acrobat Users web site (or any other RSS feed you subscribe to)? You can add any RSS feed you want to directly in Acrobat.

Here’s how to do it:

For this example I’ll use the Acrobat Users Web site. On the Acrobat Users Home page down in the lower right corner you see the Subscribe area as shown in Figure 1. Click on the RSS Feeds link and the rss page opens.

Pick out an RSS link. For this example I’ll use my own RSS feed and click on my name in the section under RSS Feeds on the rss feeds page shown in Figure 2. You can choose any one of the links you see in the RSS feeds section to subscribe to the respective feed.

Copy the URL. When you click the link, the feed opens in your Web browser window. Copy the link from the Location Bar in your Web browser as shown in Figure 3.

Open the Review Tracker. Open Acrobat either Acrobat 7 or Acrobat 8 and select Comments > Review Tracker —Acrobat 8, or Comments > Tracker —Acrobat 7. The Tracker window opens.

Subscribe to a service. In Acrobat 7 click the Services button at the top of the Tracker window and select Subscribe from the pull-down menu. In Acrobat 8 click the RSS button on the left side of the Review Tracker and click the plus (+) button at the top of the Review Tracker as shown in Figure 4.

Paste the URL for the RSS Feed you want to subscribe to. The Add Subscription dialog box opens when you add a subscription. Paste the URL you copied into this dialog box.

Edit the URL. By default the pasted URL begins with feed://. Edit feed and change it to http:// as shown in Figure 5.

Click OK and your RSS Feed is listed in the Review Tracker. When you open Acrobat, open the Review Tracker, click on the Refresh button Acrobat 8 or from the pull-down menu Acrobat 7. Your feeds are listed in the Tracker window as shown in Figure 6.

You can add additional feeds to the list and expand or collapse the individual feeds, select topics, etc. Keep up to date with all the blogs on the Acrobat Users Web site right in Acrobat and you won’t need to mess around in your Web browser searching for the important up do date information you want to regularly review.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 at 1:39 pm and is filed under Acrobat 8. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.