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When I bought my Tab­let PC, one of the main things I wanted to do with it was read PDF art­icles. It quickly became appar­ent how­ever that although there were loads of pro­grams out there designed for read­ing eBooks on the desktop — none of them really allowed for finger-based brows­ing on the Tablet’s touch­screen. Those that did, also stripped the PDF of all the dia­grams and tables that were vitally import­ant to me.

After search­ing for what seemed like ages, I even­tu­ally decided to give up and head back to Adobe Reader. Sure it has a Full Screen mode, but it’s not exactly fin­ger friendly. One tap will move you for­ward a page — to move back you need to right click or press the page up key — not that easy when your key­board is hid­ing beneath the screen. On smoother screens, you might be fine with enabling pen ges­tures and then using your fin­ger to nav­ig­ate that way, mine how­ever has a pretty rough tex­ture that’s not up to that and doesn’t always register your swipes. For­tu­nately, after hunt­ing through the pref­er­ences panel I dis­covered that you can actu­ally enable some big chunky on-screen nav­ig­a­tion but­tons. It’s simple stuff really, and here’s a quick run through on how to do it.

First, head to the pref­er­ences panel. Click the ‘Edit’ option from the menu bar and pick ‘preferences’

Next you’ll want to select ‘Full Screen’ from the cat­egory list. It’s the second option. Then tick the ‘Show nav­ig­a­tion bar’ option. This will enable the nav­ig­a­tion but­tons on the bot­tom left hand side of the screen. You’ll also need to change the option by ‘Mouse cursor:’ to ‘Always Vis­ible’ to stop them from dis­ap­pear­ing every five seconds.

Then click OK and you should be good to go! Just pick ‘Full Screen Mode’ from the ‘View’ menu on the menu bar or press Ctrl+L to head back into Full Screen Mode.

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