How do I best view and navigate my G-Book® in Adobe Reader?
Viewing Tips
You can switch between four basic views when reading your G-Book in Adobe Reader. Before you choose any particular view, maximize your G-Book in Reader and also maximize Reader on your display. The maximize/restore button is the small (middle) button in the upper right of your window just to the left of the Close (X) button.
Then try each of these viewing options to see which you like best:
If you have a large,
wide display with high resolution, the most
realistic way to read your G-Book is like this:
(in Adobe Reader choose View | Fit
Page, then choose View | Page Layout | Facing)
If you have a vertically oriented
(portrait mode) display, you might prefer to view one
page at a time, and perhaps also keep the Bookmarks or
Pages tab open at the left:
(choose View | Fit Page, then choose
View | Page Layout | Single Page—you can also click the Bookmarks or
Pages tab along the left edge of Reader if you want to expand
(or close) the
navigation pane)
If the type is too small to read
comfortably in either Fit Page view above, try fitting
the page's width to the width of your display, like this:
(choose View | Fit Width, then choose
View | Page Layout | Single Page. Close the navigation pane
on the left if it's open to maximize the type size. In
exchange for larger type, you'll have to press PgDn or
the Spacebar more often and you won't see a whole page a
time.)
Finally, if you want to see one page
at a time with nothing else on the screen, you can view
your G-Book in Full Screen view, like this:
(in Adobe Reader, use the shortcut
key Ctrl+L to switch to Full Screen view; use the PgUp and PgDn
(or Spacebar) keys to turn each page; click Ctrl+L again to
return to normal view.)
Navigation Tips
Once you've chosen your view, navigating is easy.
To turn to the next page of your G-Book, tap the PgDn (Page Down) key; to turn back a page, tap PgUp (Page Up). Not easy enough? Then just press the Spacebar each time you want to turn to the next page.
Press Home to jump to your G-Book's first page, or press End to jump to the last page.
Press Alt + Left Arrow to jump back to whatever page you last viewed. (Even if you just jumped to the end of the book, Alt+Left Arrow will take you back to the page you were viewing before your jump.) Then you can press Alt + Right Arrow to jump forward again.
If you open the Pages or Bookmarks pane at the left edge of the window, you can click on a page or a bookmark to jump to that spot in the G-Book.
Wait! How to I bookmark my page when I stop reading?
Good question. This is a global setting you make in your pdf software. After you set it once, it should work for every G-Book you open. Follow these steps in Adobe Reader, or look for a similar feature if you use another PDF reader:
Choose Edit | Preferences, then click Startup in the list at the left.
In the right pane, near the top, find "Reopen Documents to Last Viewed Page" and set the box to its right to "All Files" or to "Marked Files and Digital Editions Only." Either setting will work for your G-Books.
While you're here, you can usually speed up page display by putting a check mark in the box just below, "Use page cache."
Here's another tip: Click "Page Display" in the left pane. Put a checkmark in the box "Use logical page numbers." Now the page numbers at the bottom of the Reader window will match the page numbers in the original printed book (because the G-Book was set up ahead of time to do this, once enabled by you).
Click OK. Now read your book and just close Reader when you're done. Next time you open your G-Book it will open to the last displayed page from your previous reading session.
Wait again! How can I easily find and open my G-Books?
Another good question. In Windows, try saving your G-Books to the Desktop, or if you've saved them to a folder on your hard disk, open Windows Explorer and find the folder. Then click and drag each G-Book onto the Desktop. This will create shortcuts on the Desktop that point to the G-Book files in your hard disk's folder. Once the G-Book(s) are on your Desktop, double-click the G-Book you want to resume reading. Adobe Reader 7 (or your default PDF reader) will load automatically and open your G-Book. And, if you've set the bookmark feature as just described, the book will open directly to where you stopped reading last time!
