Welcome to Adobe¬ Acrobat¬ Reader 2.1 for Macintosh
Adobe¬ Acrobat¬ 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 the latest Acrobat Reader information and program installation instructions. The Acrobat Reader On-line Guide (Acrobat¬ Reader Help) also provides essential information to help you begin using Acrobat Reader 2.1.
THIS FILE CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS
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Ñ What's new in Acrobat Reader 2.1
Ñ System Requirements
Ñ Installing Acrobat Reader
Ñ Memory requirements
Ñ Using the Weblink tool with Acrobat Reader
Ñ Issues with the OLE plug-in
Ñ Troubleshooting
Ñ Creating your own PDF documents
Ñ Technical support
Ñ Electronic End User License Agreement
WHAT'S NEW IN ACROBAT READER 2.1
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Ñ Acrobat Reader 2.1 is Power Macintosh native.
Ñ Acrobat Reader 2.1 now accepts some specially enabled plug-ins, such as the Weblink plug-in. This allows Acrobat Reader users to take advantage World Wide Web (URL) links in PDF files created with Acrobat Exchange.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Ñ Macintosh computer with 68020 (Macintosh II series) or greater processor. Acrobat does not support Kanji.
Ñ MacOS 7.0 or later
Ñ 2 MB application RAM
Ñ 4 MB hard disk space
Ñ FDHD floppy disk drive or CD-ROM player if installing from physical media
Note: If QuickDraw GX is enabled, to print from Acrobat Reader 2.1 you must turn on desktop printing.
INSTALLING ACROBAT READER
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Ñ To install Acrobat Reader 2.1 on your hard disk drive, double click on the file called "AcroRead.mac" and follow the instructions on your screen.
Note: If you downloaded Acrobat Reader from the internet or an online service, you may need to expand the file from an archive format such as .sit.
Ñ If no version of system-level Adobe Type Manager is present on your system at the time of installation, ATM¬ 3.8.3 is installed in the Adobe Acrobat Fonts folder for use by Acrobat only. This private copy of ATM is recognized and used only by Acrobat Reader 2.1 and uses memory only when Acrobat Reader is running.
Ñ If ATM 3.8.2 or earlier is present in the System, the installer updates system ATM to version 3.8.3. The ATM Font Database (required by Acrobat 2.1) is always installed loose the System folder.
Ñ If QuickDraw GX is enabled at the time of installation, ATM¬ 3.8.3 is installed at the System level. It is not possible to use the private version of ATM in conjunction with QuickDraw GX.
Ñ Depending on whether QuickDraw GX is enabled at the time of installation, different versions of the Adobe Acrobat substitution fonts Adobe Sans MM and Adobe Serif MM are installed. See the Troubleshooting section below for notes on configuring Acrobat Reader 2.1 with QuickDraw GX.
Ñ If TrueType versions of Times, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol, or Zapf Dingbats are installed on your system, they are not replaced nor moved. If you are using Type 1 versions of these fonts, updated versions of the Type 1 fonts Times, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol and Zapf Dingbats will be installed in the appropriate location for your version of System 7.
Ñ Adobe recommends that Acrobat Reader 2.1 be installed on the user's startup (boot) drive. Acrobat Reader 2.1 installs files and resources required for font substitution in the active System Folder at the time of installation.
Ñ Please note that Acrobat Reader 2.1 does not support Kanji or 68000-based Macintoshes.
Ñ ATM 3.8.3 allocates approximately 1000K of RAM from MultiFinder memory when it is initialized by Acrobat Reader. If Virtual memory is on, ATM cannot use MultiFinder memory, so an additional 1000K memory has been allocated in the "Preferred" setting for Acrobat Reader. For more information, see the Memory Requirements section below.
MEMORY REQUIREMENTS
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Memory requirements settings for Acrobat Reader 2.1 can be set by selecting the Acrobat Reader icon in the Finder and choosing Get Info from the File menu.
Ñ The default minimum memory requirement for Acrobat Reader 2.1 is 2048K. Do not change the minimum memory setting.
Ñ The preferred memory size is 3100K and may be adjusted based on the considerations described below.
Ñ If you are using ATM 3.8.3 in the Adobe Acrobat Fonts folder, it allocates approximately 1000K of RAM from the Acrobat Reader 2.1 partition if there is sufficient space. If there is not sufficient space, or if Virtual Memory is on, ATM attempts to allocate the required RAM from System (MultiFinder) memory (except on Power Macintosh configurations, which always allocate the required RAM from the Acrobat Reader partition).
Ñ If you are using system-level ATM on a 68XXX-based (non-PowerMac) system, you can reduce the Preferred size value for Acrobat Reader 2.1 by 1000K.
USING THE WEBLINK TOOL WITH ACROBAT READER
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To use the Weblink plug-in to follow URL links, you must set up your web 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:
Ñ Copy the Weblink plug-in to the Adobe Acrobat Plug-ins folder. If you just installed Acrobat Reader 2.1, the Weblink plug-in may already exist in the Plug-ins folder.
Ñ Restart the Acrobat Reader.
To select your web browser:
Ñ Choose Edit>Preferences>Weblink
Ñ Click Select, then select your web browser application file from the Open File dialog box.
Ñ Choose a connection type. Standard is the connection type for the currently supported browsers -- Netscape 1.1 and Spyglass 2.0.
ISSUES WITH THE OLE PLUG-IN
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If the OLE plug-in for Acrobat Reader 2.1 is installed for communication with other applications such as Lotus Notes, consider the following:
Ñ Opening an embedded or linked PDF file requiring an Open password is not supported in this release.
Ñ If you are not using OLE, removing OLE plug-in from the Adobe Acrobat Plug-ins folder will decrease launch time and memory use.
Ñ If double-clicking an embedded or linked PDF file does not launch Acrobat Reader 2.1, Acrobat Reader probably has not been added to the registration database. Make sure that the OLE plug-in is in the Acrobat Plug-ins folder and that OLE is installed in teh System Folder and run Acrobat Reader 2.1. Reader will now be properly added to the registration database.
Ñ With some applications such as Lotus Notes, the system may beep and appear to hang when attempting to open a PDF document. In most cases, Acrobat Reader has signalled and error, and the other application has failed to bring Reader to the front. Bring Acrobat the front and quit the other application to to regain system function. Errors that might cause this behavior include too many files open, open password required for the document, low memory, etc.
Ñ OLE will display error messages when attempting to embed or insert files with Acrobat Reader. Acrobat Reader 2.1 does not support embedding or inserting PDF files into another document. The Reader only supports opening embedded or linked files.
TROUBLESHOOTING
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If you experience problems with installation, consider the following:
Ñ If you downloaded the Reader from an online service or internet site, check that the file transferred properly. Adobe's World Wide Web site at http://www.adobe.com will list the correct size of the binhexed version of the Macintosh 2.1 Reader. Corrupted archives have been reported to issue a message "requires 68020 or greater processor to run" on Macintosh IIx systems.
Ñ Acrobat Reader 2.1 installs substitution fonts appropriate to your system configuration at the time of installation. Later, if you either enable or disable QuickDraw GX, you will need to reinstall Acrobat Reader 2.1 to ensure that the correct version of the fonts required by Acrobat Reader 2.1 are installed in their proper locations.
Ñ If you installed System 7.5 and QuickDraw GX *after* installing Acrobat Reader 2.1, you must reinstall Acrobat Reader 2.1. The QuickDraw GX installer replaces ATM 3.8.3 with ATM GX (ATM 3.7), which is not compatible with Acrobat Reader 2.1. [The QuickDraw GX 1.1 installer includes ATM 3.8.3, so this is not an issue.]
Ñ If QuickDraw GX is enabled, Acrobat Reader 2.1 requires desktop printing be turned on to print. Do not use the QuickDraw GX Helper to turn off desktop printing.
Ñ See the QuickDraw GX Read Me for more details on QuickDraw GX operation and compatibility.
Ñ Font Not Found - A font not found error may indicate that ATM did not have enough memory to create a substitute font. Increase the size of the ATM Font Cache from the ATM Control Panel.
Ñ For best printing results, we recommend you use PSPrinter 8.2.1 (or later) driver from Adobe. PSPrinter 8.2.1 is not included with Acrobat Reader. Contact Adobe at 1-800-521-1976 for information on purchasing printer drivers.
Ñ If you are using the private copy of ATM in the Adobe Acrobat Fonts folder (i.e. you do not have ATM installed in your System's Control Panels folder) background printing is disabled in the PSPrinter driver.
Ñ If you are printing to a PostScript Level 2 device using the Adobe PSPrinter 8.X or Apple LaserWriter 8 printer drivers, you need to update the Printer Info after selecting the printer from the Chooser in order for the printer driver to recognize the printer supports PostScript Level 2. If this is not done, Acrobat Reader will not send PostScript Level 2 information to the printer. During setup, make sure to select the specific PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file for your particular printer, do not selecet the "Generic" PPD if at all possible.
Ñ Weblink - launching a second instance of Acrobat Reader or Exchange with Weblink installed will cause the the second viewer to terminate.
Ñ Weblink - Spyglass Mosaic displays a temporary filename for a PDF document rather than the document title.
Ñ Weblink - cannot display files from ftp locations from Spyglass Mosaic. Download the PDf file and open it manually from Acrobat.
Ñ Weblink - Spyglass Mosaic does not automatically come to the front when the user clicks on a link with a URL target. Use the web browser button in the toolbar to bring the web browser to the front.
Ñ Current product contact information for Acrobat is located on Adobe's World Wide Web Site at http://www.adobe.com.
TO CREATE YOUR OWN PDF DOCUMENTS
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To take full advantage of the benefits of electronic documents, you can purchase Acrobat, Acrobat Pro, or Acrobat for Workgroups with the coupon contained in the Acrobat Reader On-Line Guide or by calling 800-87-ADOBE (800-872-3623). With the Acrobat products, you can:
Ñ Create your own electronic documents as easily as printing from your existing applications with PDF Writer.
Ñ Protect your files with passwords; control access, printing, changing the document, adding and changing notes, copying text and graphics.
Ñ Find exactly what you need across multiple PDF files by searching on keywords, author, title, subject, synonyms, etc.
Ñ Reuse information easily by extracting, copying, reordering and replacing pages among PDF files -- with bookmarks, links, and notes preserved.
Ñ Create your own custom views into information.
Ñ Add value, set priorities, and maintain a dynamic information network with links, bookmarks, notes and connections to external applications and documents.
Ñ Take advantage of third-party plug-ins to add new features to Acrobat.
Ñ Integrate Acrobat with your desktop applications with Acrobat's support for AppleEvents, OLE automation, Notes F/X, and more.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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For primary technical information and answers, you╒re free to take advantage of Adobe╒s Basic Support Services at any time. You╒re responsible only for telephone charges. These services include:
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Ñ Compuserve Questions & Answers ╤ An Adobe bulletin board for CompuServe subscribers. Directory: GO ADOBE
Ñ Adobe US Electronic Bulletin Board ╤ A 24-hour-a-day bank of information. Dial +1-206-623-6984.
US only ╤ For users of Adobe Acrobat products in the US, pay for support options include:
Ñ 900-555-2276 ╤ This business-to-business 900 service is a way for infrequent users to get help from an Adobe Technical Support Representative. Each minute is $2.00 plus toll, if any, and charges will appear on your monthly phone bill. Call 900-555-2276.
ELECTRONIC END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
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