Win8 Reader How to browse PDF files directly

Win8 "Reader" application opens PDF file directly

In the Win8 start screen, we can see the eye-catching orange "reader" application icon, click it directly to open the application.

Icon: Click on Win8 Start Screen orange "reader" application icons

When you click on the orange Reader to apply the icon, the WIN8 system opens the reader application. Here we can go to the folder path to select the file that we need to open, or we can see the files that have been opened.

Graphic: Using the WIN8 system with the reader application to open the PDF file

We can also select the PDF file in Win8 's explorer and open it by double-clicking it. When we right-click a PDF file, if we do not have other reader software installed in our WIN8 system, WIN8 will directly prompt to use the reader to apply the open file and to provide a check box that is open with this application for all PDFs. If there are other reader software installed in the WIN8 system, we will see the familiar "Open with" selection box in the right-click menu.

Diagram: Win8 prompts you to open the PDF file directly with the reader application

　　Win8 "Reader" PDF file browsing mode and related function settings

Whether we choose the PDF file in the reader application or double-click the PDF file in the folder directly, the reader application with the WIN8 system will quickly and smoothly open the PDF file directly. Click on the right mouse button on the page, the bottom of the interface will appear feature settings bar. In the feature settings bar, there are the most left "search" tool, browse mode section "cover", "Two pages", "one page", "continuous", the right side has "open", "Save As" and "more" button.

Icon: Right click on the bottom of the screen, "reader" feature set bar

We can choose the way we like to browse in the browsing mode.

Left: Single-page browsing mode right: Two-page browsing mode

Put your mouse on the left and right side of the interface, and the arrow buttons on the previous and next pages appear.

Icon: the arrow buttons for the previous page and the next page

Click the "Search" button to search for the specified keyword in the full PDF. Click the "Results" button on the right to see all the search results.

Icon: Search for keywords

Click on the "more" button to see more setup features. For PDFs with fewer pages, there is only "rotate" and "information" in the pop-up options. Each click "Rotation" can achieve the page 90-degree rotation. Click "Info" to view the details of the currently open PDF file.

For more than the number of PDF files, the "more" menu will be a "bookmark" option to facilitate everyone to add Browse bookmark record browsing location.

Please click on the "next page" to see how the PDF file is scaled and printed in the WIN8 system's "reader" application.

　　Win8 "Reader" zoom in and Zoom out PDF file display

The "Reader" application in the WIN8 system defaults to displaying the file by a scale of 100%. If you encounter a larger page size PDF, you can not see the entire page content on the screen what to do? This may be a minor puzzle that many friends encounter.

Carefully look at the Win8 "reader" in the lower right corner, there is a "-" and "+" button, press these two buttons can be achieved to reduce the PDF file and enlarge the display.

At the same time, we can use keyboard shortcuts to set the size of the zoom: Press CTRL + PLUS to enlarge the page zoom, press CTRL + MINUS sign to reduce the page display scale. In addition, we can also try to hold down the CTRL key with the mouse wheel, roll up zoom, roll down to shrink.

Diagram: Zoom out, show more pages, scroll bar at bottom

　Win8 "Reader" Print PDF file

Press the shortcut key "Ctrl+p" to pull out the print control interface. Here we can choose the printer, and more detailed print setup options, such as page number, printing direction, print size, and so on.

From the above trial we can see that with the WIN8 system with the "reader" application can easily and smoothly browse the PDF file, related functions and settings relatively concise, can meet the usual use of PDF browsing needs.