Dual Monitors, tips and tricks

Excellent post on LifeHacker.com regarding how to “Make the Most of Your Dual Monitors.” My previous posts (pre-dual 19″ wide screen LCD screens) on dual monitors: first, second.

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  2. Dual monitors!

2 Responses to Dual Monitors, tips and tricks
  1. Eric
    November 8, 2007 | 8:25 am

    Listed below are 3 different ways to view
    multiple PDF documents in either the same monitor or dual or more monitors…or
    the same PDF document with the drawings in one monitor and the specification in
    the other. I think the third way is probably the best but I thought I would
    present all 3.

    1:

    Open two documents in Adobe Acrobat.
    Then select “Windows” and then in the pop-up menu click on “Tile” and then in
    the next pop-up window click on “Across Monitors”.
    This can be very handy if you want to view both the drawings and specification
    at the same time on a full size screen view. In order to do that though you
    will need to make a duplicate of the application (or whatever PDF document you
    are looking at). To make a quick copy or duplicate of the document you are
    looking at just click on “Window” and then in the pop-up menu click on “New
    Window”.

    2:
    Click on “Start” then “Run”. In box, type “acrobat /n”. This will
    open another instance of acrobat in which you can open either another file or
    the same file you have open in the other instance. You can do this multiple
    times to have multiple instances of the program running. Then you can just move
    one instance to one monitor and the other instance to the other monitor. Each
    instance can be closed independently from the other. The only limitation with
    this is that if you have the same file open in both instances of the program,
    you cannot save either with the same file name.

    3:

    Add the “/n” to the Target in the Adobe ICON on the Desktop or any shortcut to
    it. i.e Right click ICON then Properties\Shortcut\Target”C:\Program
    Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe” /n.

    Enjoy

  2. Dual Monitors
    February 9, 2009 | 8:35 pm

    Greta article on Lifehacker! I like your posts on Dual monitors as well!