Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional - Manual (Page 454)

Defining articles
You create an article by defining a series of boxes around the content in the order in which you
want the content read. The navigational path you define for an article is known as the article
thread. You use the Article tool to create a thread connecting the various boxes that hold the
content of the article, unifying them into a continuous text flow.
Each article box you create has a label. The label consists of the article number in the Adobe PDF
document and its sequence within the article. For example, the first box for the first article you
define in a document would be labeled 1-1, the second box 1-2, and so on. The boxes for the
second article in the same document are labeled 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, and so on.
The flow of an article thread. The user reads through text A, skips text B and C, and moves on to text A
again.
To define an article:
1. Choose Tools > Advanced Editing > Article Tool, or select the Article tool on the Advanced
Editing toolbar. The pointer appears as a cross-hair pointer in the document window.
2. Drag a marquee to define the first article box. An article box appears around the enclosed text, and
the pointer changes to the article pointer.
3. Go to the next part of the document you want to include in the article, and draw a marquee around
that text. Repeat until you have defined the entire article.
Note: To resize or move an article box, you must first end the article.
4. To end the article, press Enter or Return.
5. In the Article Properties dialog box, enter the article title, subject, author, and any keywords to
describe the article, and click OK.
6. To hide the Articles tab after the article opens, select Hide After Use in the Options menu of the
Articles tab. (To reopen the Articles tab, choose View > Navigation Tabs > Articles.)