Open a file that supports Picture Tasks, or use the hawaiianLuau.pdf file. A dialog opens (Figure 9.1) informing you that several features are supported in the open document.

Figure 9.1. Special features are available to you when you open a file that supports Picture Tasks.

Click OK in the dialog. The Picture Tasks tool is loaded in the Adobe Reader Toolbar Well.

Click the down arrow on the Picture Tasks tool to open a pull-down menu (Figure 9.2) containing Picture Tasks commands.

Figure 9.2. Menu commands for Picture Tasks are contained in a pull-down menu.

If you use a Macintosh computer, the same tool opens when you open files that support Picture Tasks; however, fewer menu commands appear because the Macintosh version of Adobe Reader does not support online services (Figure 9.3).

Figure 9.3. Picture Tasks in the Macintosh version of Adobe Reader does not support online services.

Open a PDF document that supports Picture Tasks.

Open the Picture Tasks pull-down menu and select Export to Slideshow. The Export to Slideshow dialog opens (Figure 9.5).

Figure 9.5. Select Export to Slideshow from the Picture Tasks pull-down menu to open the Export to Slideshow dialog.

Select the images you want to export to a slide show. Click on individual images or press the Shift key to select a contiguous range of images. As each image is selected, a checkmark appears in the box below the selected image.

Add a title for your slide show in the text box in the Title field. Titles can be up to 32 characters.

Set the slide duration. Enter the time in seconds you want each slide to appear in Adobe Reader. You can select fixed intervals from the pull-down menu or type a value in the text box. Values range from 1 to 32767 seconds.

Apply a transition. A number of transition effects appear on the pull-down menu. Among others, you can choose from Fade, Dissolve, and different wipe effects. If you don't want any transitions, select None.

Add music. If you want your slide show to play background music, choose Select from the pull-down menu. The Choose Audio File dialog opens, where you can browse your hard drive for a sound file and add it as a background sound. If you don't want music to play during the slide show, select None. Adobe Reader supports MP3 and WAV files.

Open your slide show. If you want to preview the slide show immediately after creating it, check Open slideshow after export.

Export the slide show. Click the Export button, and the Save As dialog opens. Find a target folder where you want to save your PDF slide show, and click Save. Note that the filename is derived from the name you added to the Title text box in the Export to Slideshow dialog. If you want to change the filename, you can do so in the Save As dialog. The Title text appears on the first slide, but the filename can be any name you want to use.

Preview the slide show. If you checked Open slideshow after export, the slide show opens in Adobe Reader. If the slide show doesn't open in Reader immediately, click the Open tool and open the file. The slide show opens in Full Screen mode and automatically changes slides at the interval you selected in the Export to Slideshow dialog. A controller appears in the upper-right corner (Figure 9.6), enabling you to pause, move back, and move forward among the slides.

Figure 9.6. A controller is added to the slide show when the PDF file is created.

Open a PDF document that supports Picture Tasks in Adobe Reader.

Select Export Pictures from the Picture Tasks pull-down menu. The Export Pictures dialog opens.

Select the pictures you want to export. Using the same method for selecting pictures as you do when exporting pictures for a slide show, select the pictures you want to export. If all images are to be exported, click Select All in the bottom-left corner (Figure 9.7).

Figure 9.7. Click Select All to export all your images.

Select a target folder. Click the Change button to open the Browse For Folder dialog (Figure 9.8). Click the Make New Folder button to create a new folder. Type a name for the folder in the Folder text box.

Figure 9.8. Click Make New Folder to create a new folder for the exported pictures.

Add a common base name for the files. Type a descriptive name for easy recognition when you view files in a Desktop view. Adding a name like Hawaiian Luau exports the files as Hawaiian Luau1.jpg, Hawaiian Luau2.jpg, Hawaiian Luau3.jpg, and so on. Otherwise, if you use the default of Original Names the files will have the name of the open PDF file from which you extracted the images.

Export the pictures. Click the Export button, and all selected images are exported to the target folder as JPEG images. The exported files retain the original image resolution of the PDF file.

Verify the folder location of the exported files and that they all were exported successfully so you know where the files are saved. Return to your Desktop view and open the folder where you saved the files. Each image should appear with the common base filename (Figure 9.9).

Figure 9.9. Open the folder where the images are saved and verify that all images exported appear in the folder.

Open a PDF document that supports Picture Tasks or the hawaiianLuau.pdf file in Adobe Reader.

Select the Export and Edit Pictures command from the Picture Tasks pull-down menu. The Export and Edit Pictures dialog opens.

Select the images you want to export and edit using the same selection procedures you use when creating slide shows and exporting pictures (Figure 9.10).

Figure 9.10. Click on the pictures you want to export and edit.

Create a target folder where the images are to be exported. Using the same procedure you used when exporting pictures, click the Change button and create a new folder. Note: If you want to use a common base name, follow the same procedure as when exporting pictures.

Identify your image-editing application. Click the Change button in the Editing Application area and the Choose Image Editor dialog opens (Figure 9.11).

Figure 9.11. Select an image editor and click Open.

If you want to apply effects, correct brightness and contrast, or make other edits, you can use a commercial image editor or the image editor installed with your operating system. In Windows use the Microsoft Photo Editor (Figure 9.12); on the Macintosh use iPhoto. Navigate your hard drive to locate the image editor you want to use. Select the application and click Open.

Figure 9.12. In Windows you can use the Microsoft Photo Editor to edit images for brightness and contrast, and add a number of different effects.

You return to the Export and Edit Pictures dialog. Click Edit, and the files open in the selected image editor.

Edit the images as desired using the editing tools and menu commands in your image-editing program.

On the Macintosh, open the exported images in iPhoto (Figure 9.13). iPhoto supports tools for adjusting brightness and contrast, retouching photos, removing red-eye, and changing color modes such as the Sepia toning applied in Figure 9.13.

Figure 9.13. On the Macintosh, use iPhoto to edit images exported from Adobe Reader.

Open a PDF file that supports Picture Tasks.

Select Print Pictures from the Picture Tasks pull-down menu. The Print dialog opens. Note that the Picture Tasks Print dialog is different from the Print dialog that opens when you choose File > Print.

Select the pictures you want to print from the Print dialog shown in Figure 9.14. Click each picture you want to print, or click Select All to select all pictures in the file.

Figure 9.14. Click Select All to select all pictures, or click pictures individually to print selected pictures.

Click Next. The Print dialog opens.

Select your printer. Click Change Settings to open the Print Setup dialog. In the Print Setup dialog, select a printer from the Name (Windows) or Format for (Macintosh) pull-down menu. Click OK and return to the Print dialog shown in Figure 9.15.

Figure 9.15. Click Change Settings to open the Print Setup dialog box and select a target printer.

Select a Print Size. In the Print Size section, click the size you want to print the pictures. When you click a size, a preview of the printed page displays in the Preview section.

If you choose Contact Sheet, as in this example, you can access the Contact Sheet Options. The three options include adding a caption for each index print, a filename, and the date the file is printed.

Click Print. The Adobe Reader Print dialog opens (Figure 9.16).

Figure 9.16. Click Print in the Picture Tasks Print dialog box and the Adobe Reader Print dialog box opens.

Double-check the print options and the target printer in the Print dialog box. Click Print to print the file.

Open a file supporting Picture Tasks in Adobe Reader.

From the Picture Tasks pull-down menu, select one of the four options for online services: Share Prints Online, Share Project Online, Order Prints Online, and Order Project Online.

If you select either Share Pictures Online or Order Pictures Online, a dialog opens—the Order Prints Online dialog in Figure 9.19—where you can select the pictures in the current open document that you want to either share or print online.

Figure 9.19. Selecting Share or Order Prints Online opens a dialog where you select pictures.

Select the pictures you want to share or print, and either click Next or choose the other option either for ordering prints or projects online. The Online Services Wizard dialog opens (Figure 9.20).

Figure 9.20. The Online Services Wizard dialog box—where you order online services—opens.

You will first need to set up an account with an online service provider. If you have ordered services from a provider, the provider is listed in the dialog. To find more information for setting up accounts and ordering services, click the Help button.

The Adobe Reader Help document opens, and the page related to online services opens in the Adobe Reader Help window. Browse the Help document (Figure 9.21) to learn how to log on to a service and how to order services.

Figure 9.21. The Help document opens, offering information about ordering online services.

If you open the Online Services Wizard and a service provider you want to use appears in the dialog, click the Next button. You are then prompted to review the license agreement and set up an account. Follow the directions in the Online Services Wizard dialog to place an order.

Open a file supporting Picture Tasks. Note that you can't access the Picture Tasks command if you don't have a file open that supports Picture Tasks.

From the Picture Tasks pull-down menu, select How To…Picture Tasks.

The How To pane opens (Figure 9.22) listing the same commands found in the Picture Tasks pull-down menu. Click one of the items, and the result is the same as using the pull-down menu commands from the Picture Tasks tool. Scroll to the bottom of the How To window to access the link to the Help document.

Figure 9.22. Scroll the How To window to show the link to the Help document at the bottom of the window.

Click Picture Tasks Help, and the Adobe Reader Help document opens to the Picture Tasks help page.