{"id":4801,"date":"2008-03-19T19:58:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-7-acrobat\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:33:08","slug":"the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-7-acrobat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-7-acrobat\/","title":{"rendered":"The great software Easter egg hunt &#8211; Day 7: Acrobat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/03\/acrobat.jpg\" alt=\"Get Acrobat Reader to bark like a dog!\" align=\"right\" \/>We all use it on a regular basis, but how many of us know about the hidden Easter eggs in Adobe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/uk\/products\/reader\/\">Acrobat Reader<\/a>? Well, I do. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the software that I&#8217;m unravelling today as part of my Easter quest to find hidden features in the world&#8217;s most popular programs.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, did you know that Adobe&#8217;s PDF reading app can make animal noises? No? Well, it can. Start the program and go to &#8216;Help&#8217;, &#8216;About plug-ins&#8217;, &#8216;Acrobat Forms&#8217;. Now hold Ctrl+Shift+Alt and click on the &#8216;Credits&#8217; button. Acrobat Reader will now bark like a dog! Fancy something more tranquil? Access whale noises by choosing &#8216;Help&#8217;, &#8216;About plug-ins&#8217;, &#8216;Acrobat Annotaions&#8217;. Hold down the Ctrl key and click &#8216;Credits&#8217;. The button even changes to a harpoon for you to spear the whale that appears on the plug-in logo.<\/p>\n<p>Did you also know that there&#8217;s a speech engine lurking inside Acrobat Reader? Well, there is. Hit Ctrl+Shift+b and the entire document you&#8217;re viewing will be spoken to you.  Ctrl+Shift+v will read a single page, Crl+Shift+e stops the speech, and Ctrl+Shift+c resumes. Perfect if you want a bedtime eBook story read to you!<\/p>\n<p>Continue with the Easter egg hunt <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-8-open-office\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all use it on a regular basis, but how many of us know about the hidden Easter eggs in Adobe Acrobat Reader? Well, I do. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the software that I&#8217;m unravelling today as part of my Easter quest to find hidden features in the world&#8217;s most popular programs. For instance, did you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-great-software-easter-egg-hunt-day-7-acrobat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The great software Easter egg hunt &#8211; Day 7: Acrobat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336262,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/336262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}