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About PDF Documents
Dr. Frank Tutzauer
Last revised: 11/7/99
READ THIS FIRST!
- Due to copyright restrictions regarding electronic provision of materials, I have encrypted copyrighted documents
with a password. Before being able to open them up in the Acrobat Reader, you will be asked to supply a password.
That password is comXXX where XXX is the course number. So, if your course number is 482, then the password
is com482. The password must be provided before the document will open for you. You may also wish to write
this down somewhere, especially if you wish to save the documents onto disk for future (years later?) reference.
- For those of you who have your own computer system with Internet connectivity, be sure that you download and
install the Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0, if it
is not already on your system. You will need this software to view and print PDF documents.
- Library printing: To merely print out (not download and save) the articles/handouts from the
computers in the library, you must do the following:
- Double-click on the link to the document. This will open the document in whatever web browser you are using
(Internet Explorer or Netscape).
- From the menu bar at the top of your browser, click on File > Print. But, before you print,
you must be sure to select the Postscript printer from the printer name drop-down box. If you do not select
the Postscript version of the printer, the file not only will not print, but it will take 20 minutes or so to not
print, freezing your computer in the process.
- Once the correct printer is selected (Laserjet blah blah postscript), print the document.
- If you have problems, ask the attending lab assistants (at the desk near the printers). It's their job to assist
you.
- Library printing and saving to disk: If you also wish to save the document on a disk (floppy
disk or Zip disk, preferably the latter) in addition to printing it out at the library, do the following:
- Do not double-click on the link to the document. Instead, you must right-click on the link. This will
result in a menu box popping up. Select Save target as ... and save the document to the root of the U: drive.
(The U: drive is a temporary storage area for your files that is set up when you log onto the library computers.)
- Continue this process for all the files you want.
- Now open the Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Start > Programs menu.
- Once inside the Adobe Acrobat Reader software (it may take a bit of time), select File > Open and
then go to the U: drive and select the document you wish to print.
- To print, select File > Print but be sure to select the Postscript printer from the printer
name drop-down list before you send to the printer. (See comments regarding printing from inside your browser,
above.)
- Repeat this process, opening the various documents successively and printing them. You will not have to re-select
the postscript printer after you have done so the first time.
- When finished printing, close the Adobe Acrobat Reader software as well as your Internet browser software.
- Now, if you want to move the downloaded files to disk, you will have to open the Windows Explorer and copy
or move the files from U: to either A: (floppy disk in drive A:) or D: (Zip disk in drive D). You open the Windows
Explorer by going to Start > Programs menu (last item, I believe, second box to the side where listing
continues). You could also have saved the file (save target as) directly to your floppy disk or Zip disk, but make
sure you have plenty of room given the size(s) of the file(s).
- Before logging off, eject your floppy/Zip disks. After you log off, you will not be able to access the external
disk drives and any downloaded files saved on the system will be deleted.
- If you have problems, ask the attending lab assistants (at the desk near the printers). It's their job to assist
you.
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