Welcome to Adobe Acrobat Amber Reader for Windows Alpha 1 This Read Me file contains installation instructions and product information for the Acrobat Amber Reader. To view the latest Release Notes or report bugs, go to http://www.adobe.com/Amber *************************************************************** *The Amber 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 Amber Reader is currently only available for Windows 95, * *Windows NT, and Macintosh. * *************************************************************** This file contains the following topics: New features in Acrobat Amber Reader Installing Acrobat Amber Reader System requirements Viewing PDF Page-a-time Over the Web Known Problems How to Report Bugs Electronic End User License Agreement NEW FEATURES IN ACROBAT AMBER READER ==================================== Amber is an update to Acrobat Reader with several new features: Integration of PDF viewing into Netscape Navigator 2.0 You click on a link to a PDF file in Navigator and Amber displays the file within the Netscape window -- no more context switch to launch Acrobat as a helper application. Navigation among PDF, HTML, and other web content transparently by integrating with Netscape's navigation functions -- Go Back, etc. PDF documents can be viewed a page at a time over the web. You don't wait for the whole document to download before display. Progressive display of the PDF file, so you see the text first, then images, then embedded fonts. Font blitting -- when viewed over the web, embedded fonts display first as substitution fonts while the embedded outline is retrieved then "blitted" onscreen for absolute fidelity. Dockable Toolbar within the Netscape window. New views -- continuous scrolling and 2-up pages. Antialiased text for crisper onscreen viewing. INSTALLING ACROBAT READER ========================= **The Amber Reader is currently only available for Windows 95, Windows NT and Macintosh** - To install Acrobat Amber Reader on your hard drive, from the Windows Program Manager, double click on My Computer to open the My Computer window. - Download the Amber self-extractiong archive Ambr32a1.exe to a temporary location (eg \TEMP). - double-click: [temporary location]:\Ambr32a1.exe - The file will expand the installation files and launch setup. - Follow the instructions on your screen. - Installation requires approximately 3 MB of free hard disk space. If you see the installer message "Warning! Setup couldn't install Netscape plugin (NPPDF32.DLL). Failed to locate Netscape Plugins directory." The installer was unable to install the plugin necessary for Acrobat to communicate with Netscape. - Make sure Netscape Navigator 2.0 B5 or greater is installed on your system. - Locate the Netscape plugin NPPDF32.DLL in the [drive]:\Acroweb directory. - Copy [drive]:\Acroweb\NPPDF32.DLL to \Netscape\Program\plugins SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS =================== - 386- or 486-based personal computer (486 recommended) - Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT - 4 MB application RAM - 3 MB hard disk space, plus 2 MB TEMP space available - 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy disk drive - Netscape Navigator 2.0 B3 for web integration VIEWING PDF PAGE-AT-A-TIME OVER THE WEB ======================================= Best viewing performance for PDF documents over the web comes from optimized PDF files and a server with the ability to byteserve the files. The optimized PDF format and byteserver protocol are not yet final, so we have provided a set of demonstration files on Adobe's server to allow you to test the page-at-a-time performance for yourself. See http://www.adobe.com/Amber Any nonoptimized PDF file can be viewed in the Netscape window (without page-at-a-time display) with the Amber Reader and Netscape Navigator 2.0 version B5 or better. KNOWN PROBLEMS ================ For the latest list of Known Problems, check Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/Amber Errors During Acrobat Reader Installation Installer message "Warning! Setup couldn't install Netscape plugin (NPPDF32.DLL). Failed to locate Netscape Plugins directory." See instructions for manually installing the Netscape Plugin in the Installing Acrobat Reader section above. Viewing PDF files within Netscape Navigator - The Netscape Plugin NPPDF32.DLL must be properly installed. See above. - If the Amber Reader fails to launch within 30 seconds, it displays the message "Could not find Acrobat External Window Handler" and may cause Netscape to crash. This problem can be caused by improper installation of Acrobat or insufficient system resources. Try reinstalling the Amber Reader. Viewing PDF Files Page-at-a-time Over the Web - Requires a web server with the ability to byteserve PDF files and Acrobat Amber-optimized PDF files. With this release, optimized PDF files are only available on Adobe's web site. See the section Viewing PDF Files Page-at-a-time Over the Web above for more detail. - Optimized but non-byteserved files cannot navigate beyond the first page until the entire file is downloaded. - Low speed and poor-quality network connections can cause the Amber Reader to hang with a "Document Done" message in the Reader window footer. Quit the Reader and try again to access the document from Netscape. - Amber Reader times out after 5 minutes when it fails at accessing PDF files over the Web. If the document has not displayed after 5 minutes, Quit the Reader and try again. - Occasionally, hitting the Netscape Stop button may cause the application to hang. - Optimized files from the D1 release of Acrobat Amber may not open properly. Weblink Plug-in - An invalid gopher URL (e.g. gopher://example.com/pub/test.pdf) will download an error message as a text file with the PDF file name. Acrobat Reader will return the message "There was an error opening this document. File does not begin with %PDF-". - If the web browser is busy contacting the host for over one minute, Weblink will return the message "The web browser has not responded to your request for over 1 minute: terminating request". The browser may not respond to Weblink's attempt to cancel; use the web browser button in the toolbar to activate the browser and manually cancel the request. - URLs do not display in the Amber Reader footer within the Navigator window. - Navigator runs hidden when launched from a Weblink in a local PDF file. - Base URLs are not functional in this release -- enter the absolute URL. Navigation from Netscape - Go Back currently returns you to the first page of a PDF file rather than the page you left. - Setting the Netscape Cache to 0 may cause Amber Reader or Netscape to hang, or the PDF document may fail to open. - Keyboard navigation (arrow keys, End, PageUp, etc.) may cause the Amber Reader to hang. Fonts The Amber Reader does not currently recognize fonts not installed by the Alpha 1 Amber Reader installer. Display Antialiasing is not functioning properly in this release. PDF Embedded in HTML Files - Printing the embedded PDF is not yet enabled. The HTML document will print with a blank space in place of the embedded PDF. - You cannot currently reliably embed more than one PDF file or very large PDF files in an HTML document. Secure Files The Amber Reader cannot currently accept a password for a secure document over the web. Choose Save As to download the PDF file to disk, and open the file locally to enter the password. Features Not Available in This Release - Copy/Paste - Acrobat keyboard shortcuts. The Netscape Navigator API does not yet support this functionality. - You cannot mail a PDF document as an attachment from Navigator. - PDF Document Info from the Navigator window. - Find feature. 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/Amber Check the Known Problems section to see whether your problem has already been reported. Please provide as much detail as possible about the problem you encounter. 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