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This site contains a number of links to documents. Generally, these are stored in Portable Document Format (usually referred to as "pdf files"). You can tell if this is the case by hovering your mouse over the link and looking at the status bar (the box along the bottom of your browser window) - the name of the link will appear there. If the link ends in ".pdf", it's a pdf file. You need a pdf reader installed to read these files - the most common (installed on virtually every PC by default) is Adobe Acrobat. If you don't have this installed, you can download the latest version of it free from www.adobe.com/downloads. If you have Acrobat (or a similar reader) installed, but the documents are not opened in Acrobat when you click on them - it's likely you've been "Microsofted". The latest version of Microsoft Word (2007) can both open and create .pdf files so, when it's installed, it sets itself as the default program to open .pdfs. This doesn't work in Firefox, however - and you have to instruct Firefox to open them using Acrobat. To do this, in Firefox, click on Tools, then Options, then Manage Add-Ons, then Plugins. Scroll down to Adobe Acrobat and click "Enable". If you have a version prior to 3.0, click on Tools, then Options, then Content, then click the Manage button. If, under "Extension", "PDF" is not visible, just click on any line and start typing "pdf". You should then see the pdf action line - where the action should be "Open with Adobe Reader" (but won't be - it will be indicating something like "Open with Microsoft Word"). To change this, click on "Change Action", then click the box to "Open them with the default application". Then click OK, Close and OK again - and everything should then work OK! | |
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