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Welcome to Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.1 for Windows
Adobe(tm) Acrobat(tm) software gives you instant access to documents in
their original form, independent of computer platform. With the Acrobat
Reader, you can view, navigate, print and present any Portable Document
Format (PDF) file.
This Read Me file contains installation instructions and product
information for the Acrobat Reader program. The On-line Guide
(help_r.pdf) also provides essential information to help you begin
using Acrobat Reader 2.1.
If you are redistributing Acrobat Reader, place this Read Me file
standalone in the directory with the acroread.exe file to assist the end
user with installation of the program.
This file contains the following topics:
New features in Acrobat Reader 2.1
Installing Acrobat Reader
System requirements
Using the Weblink tool with Acrobat Reader
Known Problems
Creating your own PDF documents
Technical support
Electronic End User License Agreement
NEW FEATURES IN ACROBAT READER 2.1
==================================
Acrobat Reader 2.1 now runs under Windows NT 3.5 (or later), Windows 3.1,
and Windows 95, as well as OS/2 2.11 or later in Windows compatibility
mode. AdobeÆs ATM technology for rendering Type 1 fonts has been built
into Acrobat Reader 2.1 for Windows so it is no longer necessary to install
ATM on Windows systems. For Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, installing ATM is
an option (not included with the Reader) that may improve performance of
printing documents with Type 1 fonts to non-PostScript printers.
Acrobat Reader 2.1 now accepts some specially enabled plug-ins, such as
Weblink and Movie. This allows Acrobat Reader users to take advantage of
new capabilities in PDF files created with Acrobat Exchange, for example
following World Wide Web (URL) links or viewing QuickTime and AVI
(Windows only) movies within a PDF document.
Printing quality has been improved to non-PostScript printers.
Limitations in printing to some non-Postscript printers with non-square
pixels (some fax modems and dot-matrix printers) have been removed.
Acrobat Reader 2.1 generates DSC-compliant PostScript when used with the
AdobePS 3.0 (or later) driver.
INSTALLING ACROBAT READER
=========================
- To install Acrobat Reader 2.1 on your hard drive, from the Windows
Program Manager, choose Run from the File menu; type
[drive]:\acroread.exe
- Follow the instructions on your screen.
- Installation requires approximately 3 MB of free hard disk space.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
===================
- 386- or 486-based personal computer (486 recommended)
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or greater
- 4 MB application RAM
- 4 MB hard disk space
- 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy disk drive
USING THE WEBLINK TOOL WITH ACROBAT READER
==========================================
To use the Weblink plug-in to follow links, you must set up your browser to
recognize Acrobat Reader. See the Adobe Home Page (http://www.adobe.com)
for information on configuring your browser to recognize PDF documents.
To install the Weblink plug-in:
1. Copy the Weblink plug-in to the Adobe Acrobat Plug-ins directory.
If you just installed Acrobat Reader, the Weblink plug-in may
already exist in the Plug-ins directory.
2. Restart Acrobat Reader.
To select your Web browser:
1. Choose Edit>Preferences>Weblink.
2. Click Browse, then select your Web browse from the dialog box.
3. Choose a Connection Type. Standard is the connection type for
the supported browsers Netscape 1.1 and Spyglass Mosaic 2.0.
To open your web browser from Acrobat Reader click the Web browser button
in the toolbar. This feature fails intermittantly in Windows 95.
KNOWN PROBLEMS
================
Errors During Acrobat Reader Installation
When launched, the Acrobat Reader installer (ACROREAD.EXE) makes a copy
of the ACROREAD.EXE file in the temp directory specified in the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file. When the drive and directory listed in the "Set temp="
line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file are invalid or you don't have write access
to that drive and directory,or enough space on the drive, the Acrobat Reader
installation fails, and returns the errors "Cannot load the language
library", "Cannot load the license agreement", or "Not enough free disk
space to continue installation".
Do one or more of the following:
A. Ensure there is at least 4-8MB free disk space available on the hard
drive onto which Acrobat Reader is being installed.
B. Ensure the "Set temp=" line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT is valid:
1. Open the AUTOEXEC.BAT file in a text editor that saves as text-only
(e.g., Windows Write, Notepad).
2. Locate the line that reads "Set temp=" and verify the drive and
directory following the equal sign are valid. When the "Set temp="
line points to an invalid drive or directory, edit the line to point
to a valid drive and directory, then save the file as text-only.
3. Reboot the computer.
C. Ensure you have write access to the drive where the TEMP directory
is located.
Windows95
Installation From the Network -- If you set up a network server with
the Acrobat Reader installation disk images (this problem does not occur
with the single-file Reader Installer) so users can install Acrobat Reader
over the network, the user installing the software must run the
installation from a network drive that is mapped, not directly from the
Network Neighborhood. The easist way to assign (map) a drive letter to a
network computer or folder is as follows:
1. On the Windows 95 desktop, right mouse click My Computer, and then
click Map Network Drive. The Map Network Drive dialog appears.
2. Select a Drive letter.
3. Select a Path to the network server you want.
For example:
\\computername\foldername
If a password is required, Windows prompts you.
After the drive has been mapped, double click on My Computer to open the
My Computer window. The drive name and letter you just mapped will be
listed and can be used to navigate to the Acrobat Reader install disks.
Weblink Plug-in
- Spyglass Mosaic under Win32s crashes intermittantly when a download is
cancelled from Weblink.
- 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.
PCL Printing
The printer drivers shipped with Microsoft Windows 3.1 for the HP LaserJet
III, IIID, IIIP, and IIISi printers may not work well with Acrobat Reader
(and other applications for that matter). Adobe recommends you use a PCL
printer driver based on the Universal Printer Driver V.3.1.2. Here are four
ways to get this driver:
COMPUSERVE. Type ôGO MSLö to get to the Microsoft Software Library forum.
Download the file named HPPCL5.EXE. Place this file on an empty, formatted
DOS diskette then from DOS run the file to extract the driver and
installation instructions which are in the file named printer.txt.
MICROSOFT'S BULLETIN BOARD. Microsoft's bulletin-board download service
can be reached at 206-936-6735. It supports up to 9600 baud and you should
set up your modem to use 8-bit, 1 stop bit, and no parity. Once connected,
there is a menu-driven bulletin board. Download the file named "HPPCL5.EXE"
and follow the same directions as above.
MICROSOFT. If you don't have a modem, you may call Microsoft directly at
206-637-7098 or 800-426-9400 and obtain the LaserJet III printer drivers
on a diskette.
HEWLETT PACKARD. Again, if you don't have a modem, you ma