Rotary Club of
Eugene Southtowne

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Acrobat Reader 5.0
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Opening Adobe Acrobat® 5.0 Documents

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

In order for District 5110 to have the widest possible distribution of documents throughout the District, the Adobe Acrobat 5.0® "PDF" Format has been adopted as the District standard for electronic document distribution.  This means that in order to open, read, and print the original documents that are posted to the Net and sent via Email you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader ® installed and operational on your computer system.  If you do not have the Acrobat Reader installed on your system, you can download it for free from the Acrobat Reader Download Page or you can obtain the Installation CD-ROM from your Club Internet Communications Officer [ICO] (District 5110 members only).

In opening documents in the Adobe Acrobat Format, you can either choose to open them on the Net within a web browser page, or you may actually download the file to your hard disk and then use the Acrobat Reader to open them.  

SPECIAL NOTE FOR NETSCAPE USERS

Our site visitors who are using Netscape, have experienced significant problems with Netscape 3.0 and higher when attempting to open these documents within a web browser page from the Net.  If you are using Netscape, we strongly recommend that instead of opening the file from the Net, that you download the files to your hard disk and then open them with the Adobe Acrobat Reader after they are downloaded and saved to your system.  (See instructions below for this procedure).

WINDOWS 95 / 98 / ME USERS

1. To open Adobe PDF documents within a web browser page:  Place your cursor on the file you wish to open and double-click.  Then, you will need to wait for the file to open.  Depending on the size of the file, the speed of your modem and the speed of your connection, your wait could be short or it could be long.  When the "download" begins you will not see any kind of an indicator.  However, once it had proceeded to a certain point, a new web page will open (it will be blank to start with), the Adobe Acrobat Reader main screen will appear, and then a progress bar will show up in your web browser.  Once it is complete, the document will "appear" on your web page.  You can now print the document.  Very Important Printing Notation: DO NOT use the print icon on the menu bar of your web browser.  If you use this icon, you will not get a correct printout AND, it could cause your computer to freeze, requiring a reboot.  When Printing from your Web Browser, be sure to use the PRINT ICON ON THE FAR LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE ADOBE MENU BAR.  This will allow you to print the document in its "original" format.  NOTE: If after opening the document within your web browser page, you have "garbage" or a blank page, you should use the back arrow on your web browser to return to the page with the document (s) and then do the following instead.
2. To download an Adobe PDF document to your hard disk:  First, place your cursor on the file you wish to download and click the RIGHT mouse button.  A window will open.  Select "Save target as . . ." and another window will open telling you that it is "getting the file information".  Depending upon the size of the file, this could take a minute or two or it could take several minutes. What is happening during this time period is the file is being temporarily downloaded to your Windows/Temp directory.  Once it is fully downloaded to the "Windows/Temp" directory, another window will open.  This window will allow you to select the actual location on your hard disk where you would like to store the file. (We recommend that you create a "Download" folder on your hard disk to store all of your files in.) Once you have located the place where the file will be stored, you can either keep the original file name or rename it.  Once it has a name you can identify with, click on "Save" to save the file in this location.  Another window will appear immediately telling you that the "Download is Complete".  At this point you can either download another file, or you can open the file you just downloaded.
3. Open the File With Adobe Acrobat Reader:  With the file saved to your hard disk, click "Start / Programs / Adobe Acrobat" and launch the Adobe Acrobat Reader.  Once the Reader is open, select "File / Open" and using the window that appears, navigate to the place on your hard disk where you saved the downloaded file.  Once you've located it, double-click on it and it will automatically be opened by the Reader.
4. You can now read and print the file(s) which you opened depending on your need.  To print the file at this point, select "File - Print" from the top menu bar and print as you would any other document.

MAC USERS (Information provided by Sam Frear)

1. Opening IME "PDF" Document Deliveries:When an E-Mail is received from Rotary advising there is a document to be downloaded from the WEB, highlight the address given.  Then go to Edit menu and choose "copy".
2. Quit your E-mail program.  If you have system 8 or higher, select the "connect to" site on your Apple menu and going back to the Edit menu, select 'paste. (If you have an older operating system, go directly to your Internet program, in the File menu of that select "open" and then "location in Navigator" and paste to that.)
3. Once you are connected to the Rotary site a menu will appear after you twice click the title of the document to be downloaded. This menu has four choices. Select "Save". When you do this, another menu will appear asking where you want to save this. On that menu select the hard disc and scroll to the program of your choice.
4. Select Adobe Acrobat since this is the program to open the document. And always after that, Adobe Acrobat will appear as your preferred choice. Anytime thereafter you can open the Adobe Acrobat, go to its Open file and select the article you downloaded. In a minute or two it will appear and you can print it.
5. Follow printing instructions as indicated in the Windows 95 / 98 instructions above.

AOL USERS

1. Be sure you are using the latest version of AOL's software / operating system (Currently Version 6.0)  If you aren't you could have difficulty with Adobe Acrobat documents.
2. It is recommended that you also use the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by AOL as your web browser.  It is also recommended that you NOT use the standard AOL web browser.
3. Follow instructions for opening documents based on the instructions above for your specific operating system.