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This
page is provided as a service to assist visitors to HSA
for America who are not familiar with how
to download and read Adobe Acrobat Documents ( i.e., Portable
Document Format (pdf) files).
If
you already know how to use PDF files, proceed to the Adobe
Acrobat Reader site and
Accessibility
Issues | Installing Adobe
Acrobat | Printing Acrobat
Files
Files ending in .PDF are Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format
files. Acrobat files can be read on your computer screen
or printed using an Adobe Acrobat "Reader" available
free from Adobe. If you wish to create your own Acrobat
files, you will need to purchase the commercial Adobe Acrobat
package.
ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES
Beginning with version 5.0, Acrobat supports the Microsoft®
Active Accessibility (MSAA) Application Programming Interface
(API) for the Windows® platform for integration with assistive
technology products including screen readers.
INSTALLING
ADOBE ACROBAT
The Adobe
Acrobat Home Page contains detailed information on
this product, and allows you to download free copies of Acrobat
for Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX systems.
We
suggest that you configure your Adobe Acrobat Reader as a
plug-in application for your World Wide Web browser.
This can be accomplished with Adobe Acrobat Reader version
3.0 or higher, and Netscape (2.0 or higher), Internet Explorer
(3.0 or higher), or compatible browsers. This allows
the reader software to integrate closely with the browser
and allows you to begin to read the PDF file while it is downloading.
Version 3.0 or higher of the Adobe Acrobat reader also permits
reading of PDF pages side-by-side.
If
you have an Internet browser installed on your system at the
time that you install Adobe Acrobat, it should automatically
install itself as a helper application in the browser.
You will know that it is properly installed as a helper application
if you can view the PDF file in the browser window,
with a single row of special Acrobat buttons along the top
of the viewing screen.
Note
that with versions of the Reader prior to 3.0, you cannot
save a PDF file to your local disk after you have read it.
You had to have the commercial Adobe Acrobat software in order
to save the file. This limitation was removed with version
3.0 of the Reader software.
PRINTING
ADOBE ACROBAT FILES
When printing Adobe Acrobat PDF files from within your web
browser, do NOT use the web browser print facility.
Instead, use the Print button on the special Adobe Acrobat
tool bar, which appears immediately above the viewing window.
See illustration below for location of this print button.
You may also use the Save a Copy button to save a copy to
your computer for future use or printing.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact
us.
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