VIEWING/DOWNLOADING
ADOBE ACROBAT PDFs
Viewing
an Adobe Acrobat document requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader for either online
or offline viewing. It is recommended that you download the most recent
version of Adobe Acrobat Reader and the most recent version of your web
browser. Some older versions of Acrobat Reader and web browsers have been
reporting problems viewing newer PDF documents. If you are having difficulties
with our PDF files, please click the link below for the newest version of
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Downloading a document requires that you right click on the file and select
"Save Link As" or "Save Target As" or use the File/Save As
option on your browser's toolbar.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
enables Netscape
Navigator 3.0+ or Internet
Explorer 3.0+ to view .pdf documents online through the browser. This means
that you will not have to launch the Adobe Acrobat Reader separately after
downloading .pdf documents because they will automatically be opened in the
Adobe Acrobat Reader by the browser.
*Please
note - if you are experiencing problems viewing or downloading forms
through your browser, see "Setting Adobe Acrobat as a Helper
Application", below. You may still download and view the document
offline through the Adobe Acrobat Reader without the browser if you choose to do
so.
AOL
Users: While the AOL 3.0 browser does support the Adobe Acrobat Reader, there is
a technical problem within the browser that prevents it from displaying .pdf
files online. This means that if you are using AOL, you need to download the .pdf
file, save it to your hard drive and open it with the Adobe Acrobat Reader
offline. Upgrading to the AOL 4.0 browser and adding Adobe Acrobat Reader as a
helper application (see below) will eliminate these technical problems. This is
highly recommended.
Setting
Adobe Acrobat as a Helper Application:
Occasionally
PDF forms do not load properly through Internet Explorer. (Most often, the file
appears blank in Internet Explorer.) If you are experiencing problems viewing or
loading these forms, you can set your Acrobat Reader as a helper application. To
do this, you should have the most current version of Acrobat Reader (6.0 at this
time). Once you have this installed on your computer:
1) Open the Acrobat
reader
2) Click Edit on the
menu bar at the top
3) Select
Preferences
4) Click General
5) Uncheck the box
marked Display PDF in Browser (under Web Browser Options)
6) Select OK
Now, when you click a PDF form, a dialogue box will appear with two choices...
open file from its current location or save it to disk... select open file from
its current location and the form will appear in Acrobat Reader (as opposed to
the web browser). This should eliminate the problems you are experiencing.
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