Q about Adobe Acrobat Reader on Windows (and Keynote, sorta).

[ravenvii]

I made this nice presentation in Keynote. No transitions or anything. I tried to export to .ppt, but it messed things up a bit. So I decided to try .pdf. Exported perfectly... but on Windows, I don't know how to get it to enter full screen. How do I do this? Is this even possible?

 

[Blue Velvet]

Try Ctrl-L or whatever it is on a PC.

It's Apple-L on the Mac.

Edit: Hit 'esc' to exit full-screen mode.

 

[mkrishnan]

It is indeed Ctrl-L, and it's also the first option in the View menu, at least on my lab Win PC (that's Acro Reader 5.0....)

 

[ravenvii]

Thanks! Works just like you said.

In my defense though, I opened the PDF in Internet Explorer, and there isn't any view menu. ctrl+l doesn't work either, gotta download the pdf to disk, and open it in acrobat reader itself.

Thanks.

 

[mkrishnan]

Thanks! Works just like you said.

In my defense though, I opened the PDF in Internet Explorer, and there isn't any view menu. ctrl+l doesn't work either, gotta download the pdf to disk, and open it in acrobat reader itself.

Thanks.

Don't feel too bad. At a workshop in January, I saw someone run a presentation from Acrobat, and I swear I had never noticed it had a full screen mode or thought of doing this until I saw it. It was a stats conference and there were a bunch of Linux users there. It seems like there ought to be a "You know you're a geek when..." joke that uses "you write your presentations in LaTeX instead of Powerpoint." 😀

OTOH, with powerpoint, you can right click and go full screen right from inside MSIE.... 😱