Adobe Acrobat 9: Reading RSS Feeds With Acrobat. Really?

by David R. Mankin  

Really!

Here's a little known trick that is rather handy if you subscribe to any RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. Acrobat's Tracker can follow your subscriptions for you and present the content to you–without the need for a web browser or any other separate application.

First, you will need to open the Tracker. Choose Comments > Track Reviews. Curiously, Adobe doesn't think you'll want to know about RSS subscriptions by default, so you may have to go to Edit > Preferences (Acrobat > Preferences on the Macintosh) to enable RSS reading capabilities.

Enable RSS reading capabilities

Click Tracker on the left and enable RSS Feeds in Tracker. You will need to close and reopen the Tracker to see the RSS options.

Click RSS in the left panel of Tracker. Then click the Subscribe to RSS Feed link on the right. Paste or type the RSS Feed's URL into the dialog box and click OK. That's all that's required to make this magic happen.

Subscribe to RSS Feed

If you then look at Tracker's left side, you'll find your RSS Feed listed under the RSS button. Each subscribed feed will have its own entry.

RSS Feeds

Click the plus sign (or triangle) to expand the topic and to reveal a listing for each article or topic. Clicking on any topic reveals the appropriate article (including graphics!) in Tracker's right panel.

 
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David R. Mankin is a Certified Technical Trainer, desktop publisher, computer graphic artist, and Web page developer. He is an Adobe-Certified Expert in Acrobat.

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