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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.