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-PDF INFO & TEST FILE
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-DOWNLOADING PDF FILES IN A WEB BROWSER
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-Windows 95 Users
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-To download the file directly from within Windows 95 using their Internet Explorer, right click on
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-the hotlink and a pop-up menu will appear. Select the "Save Target As..." menu item and then you
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-will be asked to identify a destination for the file on you local hard drive. When the file is fully
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-downloaded, open it in the Acrobat Reader or Exchange program. If you want to view it within
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-your browser--left click on the hot link.
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- Figure 1. Windows 95 Pop-Up Menu with Right Click
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-Macintosh Users
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-The same general rules and limitations exist for Macintosh users as have been described above. To
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-download the file to the hard drive, click and hold the mouse button down until a pop-up window
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-appears. Select "Download Link to Disk" (MS Explorer 4) or similar menu item, and then choose
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-the destination for the file.
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-PDF INFO & TEST FILE
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-HOW TO USE PDF FILES ON THE INTERNET
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-Viewing PDF Files On-Line
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-It is possible to "download" PDF files within your Internet browser using the Adobe Acrobat PDF
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-Viewer plug-in for browsers. If you have an Acrobat plug-in installed, clicking on the PDF hot link
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-will automatically start downloading the file and will show you the first page as soon as it is ready.
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-The Acrobat plug-in will display the first page of the document as soon as it is downloaded; that
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-usually takes several seconds to a minute--depending on the quality and speed of your network
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-connection.
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-The files must be navigated and printed using the Acrobat PDF Viewer's icons and not the
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-browser's menu items. The PDF document MUST be printed using the Acrobat Viewers print icon
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-on the upper left corner of the viewer. If the browser's print menu is used, the document may not
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-print clearly, or not print at all..
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-Viewing PDF Files Off-Line
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-The best place to view and use PDF file is off-line. While viewing PDF files on-line is a great
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-feature, it does limit some user interface options and is somewhat impractical for large PDF files
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-on the Internet. It may be wiser to download the file for with the Adobe's Acrobat Reader or
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-Acrobat Exchange applications. The benefit of this is each of these applications allows for faster
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-navigation, use of the search function and index services if the file is included in a detached index.
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-Downloading Limitations of the Internet
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-It appears that some service providers place limits on the size of files that they will allow their users
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-to attach to e-mail (usually less than 1 megabyte), or download directly. While the PDF version of
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-a document may appear to be a large file compared to many HTML and graphic files, the PDF file
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-is frequently one-half to one-tenth the size of the parent files! The collection of parent resources
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-would be more difficult to download and would not provide the high level of services available in
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-the Acrobat PDF format.
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-PRINTING PDF FILES
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-The Acrobat Reader is capable of printing to a variety of printer types, including PostScript, HPGL
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-and PCL, without any additional software. Choosing the "Print..." menu item in Acrobat will call
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-up the standard print dialog box found on your system. In general, choose "Shrink to Fit" option to
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-allow the PDF page images to fit on your paper. There is no required "paper size" for a PDF file
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-and it is common for the contents of a PDF file be used as virtual slide show in a landscape format.
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-PDF INFO & TEST FILE
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-SOMETHING FOR FREE!
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-The PDF (Portable Document Format) requires a special stand-alone application, or plug-in for
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-your Web browser to view PDF documents. The basic software is available free from the Adobe
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-Corporation. The free Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader allows you to view, navigate, and print PDF
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-files across all major computing platforms. Acrobat Reader is the free viewing companion to
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-Adobe Acrobat 3.0 and to Acrobat Capture(R) software. All links to PDF files have a icon beside
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-them or "(PDF)" in the text link.
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-If you do not have Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader software, it is available free from Adobe Inc. by
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-clicking the Get Acrobat Reader at “http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html”.
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-A more sophisticated version of this software package called Adobe Acrobat provides the software
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-tools for the creation, basic editing and indexing of PDF files. It is available as a commercially sold
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-product from Adobe. The commercial product is available through most software retailers.
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-WHY I USE PDF FILES
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-I frequently get inquires about our use of PDF files on my Web site. I use them for several
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-reasons:
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- • I can deliver information with higher quality graphics and page formatting.
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- • PDF files can be electronically indexed and searched quickly.
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- • They are compact in size compared to other forms of electronic documents of comparable
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- quality.
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- • I can create high quality documents more easily than using HTML (Hypertext Mark-up
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- Language). Information on Web will frequently have graphics with much lower resolutions
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- than ones in our PDF files.
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- • They can be used with the same predictable results on five computer platforms and operat-
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- ing systems. (UNIX, Windows 3.1, 95, 98 & NT, Macintosh)
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