CPMRA - Viewing/Downloading Adobe Acrobat PDFs

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.

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.