Is this possible?

[Crothian]

Today at the gaming table we were using a laptop with a pdf for the first time. We've used them in the past in between games, but never at thje gaming table. We found that there was need to flip between pages fast, and that was not possible. For instance we would be referenceing page 28 and 104 for a combat. Is there anyway to make flipping between pages easier? I think this would be a nice addition to pdf and make them more gaming table friendly.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Well, the PDF needs a table of contents for one.

 

[Crothian]

Not always, what I'd like is a way to tab between 2, 3, 4 or more pages with the touch of a key. Table of contents helps me find the info and bookmarks can help with this but not enough products are bookmarked. But even with bookmarks it can take a little while to find what one is looking for.

 

[JimAde]

Maybe not what you're looking for, but you can do this with the Reader 6.0:


To get to a page:

1) click in the "Page X of Y" box at the bottom of the window.
2) All the text will highlight. Type the page number you want ("8" for example) and hit return.
3) you jump to the page in question. Note next to the "Page x of y" window there are forward and back arrow buttons. Pressing the "back" button will take you back where you were, forward will return you to the page you selected. You can stack up the three or four pages you need and at least flip back and forth through them.

Hope that helps.

 

[Fate Lawson]

Ctrl+N calls up the Go To Page Box
Ctrl+Left Arrow and Ctril+Right Arrow will take you back and forth between previous views.

 

[annadobritt]

Today at the gaming table we were using a laptop with a pdf for the first time. We've used them in the past in between games, but never at thje gaming table. We found that there was need to flip between pages fast, and that was not possible. For instance we would be referenceing page 28 and 104 for a combat. Is there anyway to make flipping between pages easier? I think this would be a nice addition to pdf and make them more gaming table friendly.

Hmm. Maybe create a drop-down menu using Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0.
Maybe also using navigation buttons at the top of each page in a header. Need to check my books and see what can be done.

 

[Dana_Jorgensen]

If you have full fledged acrobat installed on the laptop, rather than reader, you can always add bookmarks as you need them, possword protection foolishness notwithstanding. One of the first things I do with the PDFs I buy is dump its existing bookmarks into a TOC hierarchy, and add a second heiarchy for the booksmarks I add as I need them.

 

[pensiv]

Acrobat has "back" and "forward" buttons to flip between last viewed pages/pdfs. They are the black arrows on the toolbar.

 

[Khaalis]

Another trick is to simply open the file twice and flip between the two or even tile them on the screen and look at both at the same time.

 

[JimAde]

Another trick is to simply open the file twice and flip between the two or even tile them on the screen and look at both at the same time.

I couldn't get the Adobe Reader to do that. Every time I tried to open the file again, it just popped the previously opened one to the front. I suppose you could copy the file to a different name and then open both copies.