Viewing Documents

Click the document number links in results lists or Document History reports, or click the View Doc button on the Menu bar, to view the documents.

Note: If you do not subscribe to the document collection, you will not be able to link to the document. However, if you subscribe to the Specs & Standards Pay-per-View functionality you can click the icon and purchase an electronic (pdf) copy using your credit card. To check the scope of your subscription, click Tools > Subscription on the Specs & Standards Menu bar.

Note: An IHS Copyright Notice window will prompt you to either Accept and go to document or Decline and close the window. Once you accept the copyright notice for a particular organization, subsequent document views in that collection will not include this window.

Assuming you have Adobe Acrobat^® Reader™ installed, a new window will open with the document in the bottom frame. If the document was returned as the result of a full text search, you will be taken to the first occurrence of your search terms.

Sample Document Display.

Use the Acrobat toolbar functions to navigate and print the document. See Using the Acrobat Toolbar. Many documents (such as the one displayed above) have Bookmarks. Click the bookmark links to move to the various sections of the document.

The display for military documents and some industry standards also contains a Revision Group drop-down list in the upper right corner:

Sample Document Display with Revision Group drop-down list.

Click the Revision Group drop-down list to quickly view other documents (newer/historical, notices, etc.) in the document family.

Click the Close button in the upper right corner to close the document.

Menu Bar Functions
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When viewing a document, the following buttons are available on the Menu bar:

Using the Acrobat Toolbar
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The toolbar shown below is found at the top of PDF documents.

Adobe Acrobat Reader (Version 5.0) Toolbar. Depending upon your display options, your toolbar may look slightly different.

	Adobe button. Takes you to the Adobe website.
	Save button. Allows you to save a copy of the file that is being viewed.
	Print button. Brings up the Print dialog box. There are several print options. Select the All radio button to print an entire document without opening all the subparts. You can also choose to print the Current page or select the Pages from radio button to print a range of pages.
	Show/Hide Navigation Pane button. This is an extremely useful tool! Click to show the bookmark feature. Below is a screen shot of a document before clicking the Show/Hide Navigation button. The following screen shot shows same document after clicking the Show/Hide Navigation Pane button. You now can see the bookmarks for the PDF document. Now the bookmarks are visible. Click a bookmark to advance to that page. Note: If you click the Show/Hide Navigation Pane button and you do not see any bookmarks you may have to click and drag the window frame to re-size the bookmark window. In some versions of the Acrobat Reader, the bookmark tab is on the top of the window. Note: Not all documents contain bookmarks.
	Hand tool. When selected it enables the user to move the PDF document. Works much the same as the horizontal and vertical scroll bars.
	The Zoom In/Out tools. Select either of these buttons, and then click the page or drag to draw a rectangle around the area to zoom in or zoom out. Notice the small arrow at the right side of the buttons (in other versions of Acrobat Reader the arrow will be on the buttons). Click the arrow to expand and contract the buttons.
	The Text and Column Select tools. This is another important tool. Notice the small arrow along the right side (in other versions the arrow is within the button). Click the arrow to expand and contract these buttons. The first button is the Text Select tool. To use it, select the first letter of the sentence or phrase and drag to the last letter to select text, then right-click the highlighted area and choose Copy or select Edit > Copy from the Menu bar. The next button is the Column select tool. When the document text is in a multi-column format and you only want to copy one of the columns select this tool.
	The Graphics Select tool. Use to select graphics. Then right-click the highlighted graphic and choose Copy or select Edit > Copy from the Menu bar.
	PDF navigation buttons. The first button will take you to the first page of the PDF document. The next button will take you to the previous page. The third button will take you to the next page. The last button will take you to the end of the document.
	PDF navigation buttons. The first button takes you to the previous view. The next button takes you to the next view.
	PDF Size buttons. The first page button sizes the PDF to actual size, the next page button fits the PDF to the size of the window, and the last button fits the PDF to the width of the window.
	Orientation buttons. The first button turns the document 90 degrees counter clockwise. The second button turns it 90 degrees clockwise.
	Find button. Click to find specific words within the document. The Find dialog box appears. Type the word you want to find and click the Find button. Use the check box options as necessary.
	Search Term Navigation buttons. When a Text search is done on the full text, and a PDF document is opened, these buttons will take you to the occurrences of your search term within the document. Click the first button to go to the previous highlighted search term, the second button to go to the next highlighted term.