Instructions for Downloading Adobe Acrobat Files

Many of the documents on these pages are presented in Adobe® Acrobat® format as indicated by an extension of PDF. It allows an author who has created a document in any program to easily distribute an image of his printed page electronically. (For a detailed discussion on how to use Acrobat, consult http://bill.barnes.net/articles/acrobat.htm)

Often if you follow a link to an Acrobat file, your browser will download the document to a temporary file and open the Acrobat reader or even display the file in a browser window. Since you may want to refer to the document in the future or even pass it on to a colleague you may prefer to have it resident on your computer. To download, rather than open any web document; right click the highlighted link. This will bring up a context menu which gives you the option to save it to your computer. (The exact terminology may vary depending on your browser. For example, in Navigator 3.0 you select the menu choice "Save Link As.") Once you choose an appropriate folder, the file is available on your computer to refer to offline.

The Acrobat document is fully self-contained and should show all fonts and graphics exactly as the designer intended without requiring any outside files. Bytes & Bits articles may include links to the Internet which may require specific configuration of your Acrobat Reader and that you be online.

If you need the latest version of Acrobat Reader, please go to Adobe's site at: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html