Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 Beta 6 for Microsoft Windows ===================================================== This file contains the following topics: General information System requirements Installation Viewing PDF Files over the Web Printing PDF Files Known problems How to report bugs Creating PDF Files for use with Internet Explorer GENERAL INFORMATION ==================== This Read Me file contains installation instructions and product information for the Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 Beta 6 for Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT. It includes instructions for use with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Adobe encourages you to register as an Acrobat Reader user; letting us know who you are helps us continue to provide you with better products, better service, and the most up-to-date information on Adobe Acrobat. If you have not already registered, please do so at http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/register.html To view the latest information on Acrobat 3.0 beta, please go to: http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta ****************************************************************** This Acrobat Reader is a pre-release version, does not represent final product from Adobe, and may contain bugs, errors and other problems that could cause system failures. The final version of Acrobat Reader 3.0 will contain improvements and additional features. It will be available in the fall of 1996 as a free download from: http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/ ****************************************************************** SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS =================== - x86-based personal computer (386 minimum; 486, Pentium, or Pentium Pro recommended) - Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT 3.51, or Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 beta 2 or later - 4 MB application RAM - 4 MB hard disk space, plus 2 MB temporary space available during installation - For Web integration, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 INSTALLING ACROBAT READER ========================= To install the Acrobat Reader: + Double-click the installer file (rdrx32b6.exe). The file will expand the installation files and automatically start the installer program. + Follow the instructions on your screen. The installation procedure will ask you to read and accept the Electronic End User License Agreement. This installer will install acro32b6.exe, the 32-bit Acrobat Reader for use with Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows NT. It will also install version 1.3 of PDF.OCX, the Acrobat Control for ActiveX, which will enable Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 to display PDF documents. This installer will NOT install software needed by Web browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 to work with Acrobat Reader. If an earlier beta version of Acrobat Reader 3.0 which worked with other Web browsers was previously installed on your machine, the installation of this software may cause the earlier version to stop working. For versions of the Acrobat Reader which can be used with other Web browsers, see: http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/ VIEWING PDF FILES OVER THE WEB ============================== Internet Explorer 3.0 will use the Acrobat Reader to display PDF files. A Web page author can present a PDF file embedded in an HTML page or in its own window. If the author configures the file appropriately (as described in "Creating PDF Files for use with Internet Explorer" below), the Acrobat Reader will initially download just the first page of the PDF document and then download additional pages when the user needs them. PRINTING PDF FILES ================== When PDF files are viewed using Acrobat Reader as a stand-alone application, files can be printed using the File>Print... menu. When PDF files are viewed inside of Internet Explorer 3.0: When viewing a PDF file which fills an Internet Explorer window, Internet Explorer's print icon or File>Print... menu will not correctly print the PDF file. The Print icon on the toolbar will open the Acrobat print dialog which will allow the entire PDF file to be printed. When using Internet Explorer's print toolbar icon or File>Print... menu to print an HTML page which contains a PDF file embedded in it, the printed output will include the HTML page with just the first page of the PDF file scaled to fit in the area provided for it. Printing such an HTML page to a Postscript printer with the current Acrobat Reader release is very slow. If an embedded PDF file is displayed with a toolbar, the Print icon on the toolbar will open the Acrobat print dialog which will allow the entire PDF file to be printed. The author of an HTML page can provide a Print button associated with an embedded PDF file (this button is implemented using a VBScript). Pressing the Print button will open the Acrobat print dialog. KNOWN PROBLEMS ============== Known problems using Acrobat Reader 3.0B6 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 include: Some known problems are described in the above notes on printing. When a PDF file is displayed in its own Internet Explorer 3.0 window, Internet Explorer's File>Save As... menu will not correctly save the PDF file to your disk. If you opened the PDF file by clicking on a link to it in an HTML page, you can save the PDF file to your disk as follows: - Use the Back button in the Internet Explorer toolbar to return to the HTML page containing the link. - Click on the link to the PDF file using your RIGHT mouse button to display a drop-down menu. - Choose the Save Target As... menu item from the drop-down menu and use the resulting dialog box to save the PDF file to your hard disk. At times Internet Explorer may display an empty area where it should display a PDF file. This may occur if Internet Explorer has an old or bad copy of the PDF in its cache. You may be able to correct the problem by clearing its cache as follows: - select Internet Explorer's View>Options... menu - click on the "Advanced" tab (at the top right of the dialog) - click on the Settings... button under "Temporary Internet files" - click on the Empty Folder... button - click Yes - click OK - click OK Then redisplay the open window in Internet Explorer using either the Refresh button or the View>Refresh menu or F5. Other known problems in Acrobat Reader 3.0B6 include: If you open a PDF file from a CD-ROM, then remove the CD-ROM and later try to access that PDF file you may get a system error. Always remember to close all files opened from a CD-ROM before removing it. If you restart Windows 95 or Windows NT while a PDF file is being displayed inside a Web browser, the Acrobat Reader will crash. Many of the Acrobat Reader keyboard navigation accelerators (arrow keys, page up/down, etc.) are not available when viewing PDF files within a Web browser window. When large PDF files which have NOT been optimized for page-at-a-time downloading are downloaded over very slow transmission lines (e.g. slow modems), the Acrobat Reader may "time-out" before the entire file has been downloaded. "Open File" links and bookmarks to non-PDF files will not work when activated while viewing the PDF file in a Web browser window. When viewing a PDF file in a Web browser, the destination of an Acrobat Weblink is not displayed in the control bar even if the Weblink preference is set to do so. From the File Manager, only one PDF file at a time can be selected and printed. For a current list of known problems, check Adobe's Web site at http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta/knownbug.html HOW TO REPORT BUGS ================== You may report problems to Adobe with the Bug Report form on Adobe's Web site at http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta/bugform.html CREATING PDF FILES FOR USE WITH INTERNET EXPLORER ================================================= Using Adobe's Acrobat Pro 2.1 or Acrobat 3.0 products, PDF files can be easily created from any application which can print. For a PDF file posted on the Web to be downloaded one-page-at-a-time, the file must have been optimized using Acrobat Exchange 3.0 and then posted on a Web server with the ability to do "byte range serving" ("byteserving"). You can also set viewing options for your PDF file using use Acrobat Exchange 3.0. For example, its File>DocumentInfo>Open... menu allows you to set Hide Toolbar and Hide Window Control user interface options which will be used when opening the PDF file from within Internet Explorer. Acrobat Exchange 3.0 will be included in Adobe's Acrobat 3.0 product. Until this product is available for purchase, a demonstration version of Acrobat Exchange 3.0B1 (which contains this optimization feature) can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta/exdownload.html#win32 This URL also has a link to information on byteserving PDF files. If you install both Acrobat Exchange 3.0B1 and Acrobat Reader 3.0B6 on the same PC, the one installed most recently will be automatically opened when Internet Explorer or the File Manager tries to open a PDF file. We recommend that you install (or reinstall) Acrobat Reader 3.0B6 AFTER installing Acrobat Exchange 3.0B1. You'll be able to manually open Acrobat Exchange and then use its File>Open... menu to open PDF files. (This inconvenience will go away when Acrobat Exchange 3.0 is available.) ===================================================================== Adobe and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Incorporated and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks and ActiveX is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. (c) 1983-1996 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.