Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Adobe Acrobat Liquid Mode Is Handy

I cam across a feature in Adobe Acrobat for Android (also available for IOS) that I hadn't known about and is worth noting. Liquid Mode allows text in a PDF to flow to fit the screen. It's similar to the reading mode feature that some browsers have.

In testing with a couple of larger report-type documents, it seemed to work quite well and let me read documents on my phone that would have been impossible or at least difficult before. Adobe's online help for Acrobat describes it as follows:

Liquid Mode is a revolutionary mobile reading experience powered by Adobe Sensei, Adobe’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology. Liquid Mode enhances your PDF layout and adds features on-the-fly to help you easily read documents on your phone and tablet It’s AI technology evolves and improves the Liquid Mode experience as it learns over time.

There are some limitations related to document size and encryption, and it won't work no scanned documents that have been converted to PDF. 

To use liquid mode, tap the icon that looks like a water drop over lines of text. 



 

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