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DOI: 10.1051/odfen/2011411 J Dentofacial Anom Orthod 2012;15:110 Ó RODF / EDP Sciences ORTHOPRACTICE RUBRIC PDF DOCUMENTS: if you have always liked to make notes on your printed journals, you can still do it on digital publications... more easily and more efficiently Philippe AMAT As more and more publishers offer digital balloons along side the text and to underline versions of their publications – usually at any sections they wish to emphasize. reduced prices – and the sales of digital And it is also now possible to acquire a tablets skyrocket it becomes increasingly complete gamut of commentary tools with- clear that our access to information will out buying the full version of Adobe@ Xpro. eventually be based on digital sources not Readers need only download any one of the paper. free electronic PDF readers available today, While the environmental benefits of this including STDU Viewer, Foxit Reader, Free revolution, including the space gained by PDF Viewer, Perfect PDF Reader, and the this new means of storing material digitally, excellent PDF-XChange Viewer. not physically, are vast, will there be a price THE PDF-XChange Viewer is the most to pay, the loss of our ability to underline rapid acting and the lightest of the group and text and make comments on it? Until offers more functions than the others to help recently, the answer seemed to be, ‘‘yes.’’ in visualizing and annotating PDF documents. To digitize their articles most editors of This program originally created in English is professional journals are employing the Por- now also available by Tracker Software in a table Document Format (PDF), which can French version, both functioning through be read with Acrobat Reader that is available Windows. Readers can find these programs from Adobe at no charge. The original versions on the usual freeware sites, and, when they of this reader gave users a chance to read do so, they should be sure not to click on the the text but provided them with no means option ASK on the tools bar. of inscribing comments on it. The Acrobat Faithful users of Apple’s Mac computers Reader has now corrected this defect by can make comments on PDF documents by allowing readers to make comments in employing the services of Apercu, an Apple Address for correspondence: P. AMAT, 19, place des Comtes du Maine, 72000 Le Mans. [email protected] 1 Article available at http://www.jdao-journal.org or http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/odfen/2011411 PHILIPPE AMAT Figure 1 A few comments inserted in PDF document, opened with PDF-XChange Viewer. program, less complete than the PDF- tabs, zooming in or out, rotating, and XChange Viewer, which is a compo- preparing grids and rulers. nent of Mac OS X. Also available are powerful text The user’s manual of the PDF- searching tools and the capacity to XChange Viewer(1) gives a detailed turn a page into an image. account of its applications and ex- It should also be noted that the plains how users can adjust it to suit development and continuing improve- their individual needs. ment of a multitude of digital tools Using this viewer users can, among makes it increasingly possible to other things (fig. 1): integrate evidence based dentistry – underline, cross out, or erase sec- into our clinical practices. Ever since tions of text; Vice-President Al Gore gave the world – insert comments on portions of the free access to Medline in 1997, this text; database has continued to expand its (2) – insert arrows, lines, circles, and functions . other geometric figures; For clinicians, our easy access to – write freehand or sketch designs, this fountain of information, PDF etc. formats, and the application PDF- Users will find that they can navi- XChange Viewer constitute a golden gate smoothly through a document opportunity to accquire and store the performing any of the applications we best and most recent data and to have described. There are many op- exploit this treasure house with facility tions for posting notes, formatting in digital form. (1) http://www.docu-track.com/PDFManual.pdf (2) AMAT P. Dentisterie fonde´ e sur les faits : en omnipratique et en orthodontie. Paris: E´ ditions CdP, in press. 2 Amat P. PDF DOCUMENTS: if you have always liked to make notes on your printed journals, you can still do it on digital publications... more easily and more efficiently ORTHOPRACTICE RUBRIC.