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============================================================== Adobe and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. **************************************************** This Acrobat Reader is a pre release version, does not represent final product from Adobe, and may contain bugs, errors and other problems that could cause system failures. The Acrobat 3.0 Beta Reader is currently available for OS/2 Warp, Win 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Macintosh. **************************************************** (c) 1996 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. I. Adobe Acrobat Reader for OS/2 Welcome to the first beta for the Acrobat Reader for OS/2 Warp. You must have OS/2 version 3.0 or higher to run this software. This reader is a 3.0 code level version. Therefore, it shares the following new features for Acrobat with the other 3.0 readers: -New views -- continuous scrolling and 2-up pages. -Anti-aliased text for crisper onscreen viewing. Features such as integrated viewing with NetScape may be avail- able in the near future, but are not in the current version. Please make sure you read the known problems at the end of this file; especially before reporting any bugs to Adobe via the Web. We on the Acrobat Reader team would like to thank everyone for using our web pages to report problems, and encourage everyone to continue doing so in the future. It's through this process that we are able to solve a wide variety of problems that we might otherwise be unexposed to. You can find out how to report prob- lems by reading the section below entitled "Reporting Problems" II. This file contains the following topics: -Installing the Acrobat Reader -Getting Help -Reporting Problems -Setting up for use with the IBM WebExplorer -Setting up for use with Netscape (Windows) -Known Problems III. Installing the Acrobat Reader. 1. OS/2 Installation: Note that the use of "<enter>" below refers to hitting your key- board's ENTER or RETURN key. Everything else within quotes should be typed exactly. Also Note: if you plan on re-installing Acrobat or installing Acrobat over a previous version, make sure you uninstall it first using the uninstall icon, then REBOOT THE MACHINE. If you don't reboot first, the uninstall will be left in an incomplete state, which will cause problems with the install. The OS/2 Acrobat Reader comes in the form of a self extracting archive (OS2RD3B1.EXE) which you will have downloaded using your web browser. To install Acrobat, it is no longer necessary to create a temporary directory, since Acrobat now cleans up after itself. All you nead to do is execute "OS2RD3B1.EXE". Depending on how you downloaded this file, it could be anywhere on your hard drive(s). One common location where IBM WebExplorer leaves downloaded files is C:\TCPIP\BIN. In this instance, you would type: "C:\TCPIP\BIN\OS2RD3B1.EXE". This will start the installation program. When the first dialog box comes up, read the screen carefully, then click on the "Con- tinue" button. The next screen will come up and ask you if you wish to install this product. Click on the "OK" button. Next, the Adobe end user license agreement page comes up. Read the entire document and then click on "Accept" if you agree to the license, or "Do Not Accept" to abort installation. Once you accept the agreement, the "Install - directories" dialog box will come up. You must make sure that the "Installa- tion directory" has enough disk drive space to hold the program. The default directory is C:\ACROBAT3\ACROREAD. If you would like to change the location for Acrobat, do so now by editing the displayed text. Once you have chosen a directory, click on the Disk space button. If the "Bytes available" on the drive for the directory you chose exceeds the "Bytes needed" number, click on the OK button, otherwise, select another drive then click on the OK button. This will automatically change your installation directory to an equivalent directory on that drive letter. Once you have done this, you may click on the "Install" but- ton. When the progress bar completes, you should see a screen which says "The requested components of Acrobat Reader for OS/2 are successfully installed." When you click on OK, the installer should exit. Your installation is complete. Once you have installed the reader on your machine, you may either delete the directory (folder) you created to hold the install program, or you may choose to leave the whole directory on a network drive where others can have access to it for installations. If you would like to distribute it on floppies, you will need to use the OS/2 BACKUP and RESTORE commands or some equivalent utility since the archive file is larger than what one floppy will hold (unless you are using 2.88 Mb floppies). You'll now have an "Adobe Acrobat" folder on your desktop. Double click on that folder, then double-click on the "Acrobat Reader" program to start Acrobat. If you had trouble installing, check the INST_L1.LOG file in the c:\os2\install directory. 2. Users of Acrobat Reader for Windows: Those folks who are currently using the Windows Acrobat Reader may find that when they double-click on an Acrobat file in the Workplace Shell, the Windows Acrobat program launches instead of the OS/2 Acrobat Reader. This is because the Windows program object is still associated first with PDF (portable document format) files. To set up your system to use the OS/2 Acrobat reader by default, do the following: a] Locate the program object for your Windows Acrobat Reader or Exchange program. This may be "nested" in a folder on your desktop called "WIN-OS/2 Groups". In this folder, look for a folder called "Adobe Acrobat" or "Adobe Acrobat 2.0". Inside one of these folders, look for a program called "Reader" or "Ex- change". If present, right click on the program icon using the right mouse button (left mouse button if you set the mouse to be left-handed), then click on settings. Click on the notebook page that says "Association". If you see a reference to "*.PDF" in the list box entitled "Current Names", click on that reference, then click on the "Remove" button next to the list box. This will remove the *.PDF association to your Windows Acrobat viewer. b] If you _didn't_ find the association in a program object in one of these folders, yet the Windows viewer still launches when you double-click on PDF files, try searching your computer for the actual executable (.EXE) file for the Windows viewer. This will either be called "ACROREAD.EXE", "ACROEXCH.EXE", "ACROEX16.EXE", or "ACRORD16.EXE". You can search for this by right clicking on your OS/2 Desktop, then selecting "Find" from the popup menu. Type "ACRO*.EXE" in the "Name" field, then make sure the "Start Folder" has "<All Local Drives>" selected. Also make sure that "Search All Subfolders" has a checkbox next to it. Now click on the Find button. When this operation has completed, you'll see a list of files that match this name. (NOTE: One of the files named "ACROREAD.EXE is your OS/2 viewer.) Check the Associations page for each file to make sure that "*.PDF" is not listed in the "Current Names" listbox for that file. If you have done this properly, your Windows viewer should not appear the next time you double click on an Acrobat document. To insure this is the case, right click on a "PDF" file, then click on the arrow next to the "Open" item. The only menu item you should see is "Acrobat Reader". Note: If you want to have a choice on the open menu for PDF files to allow you to open _either_ the OS/2 program or the Windows program, you may re-add the association to "*.PDF" to the Windows program icon (not the executable file) at this time. The OS/2 Viewer will still be the default association. 3. Uninstalling Acrobat To Uninstall Acrobat, double click on the Acrobat Reader Unin- stall icon in the Adobe Acrobat folder. Next, click continue, then click on the delete button. Note: After uninstalling, YOU WILL NEED TO REBOOT THE COMPUTER BEFORE INSTALLING again. This is because the reboot procedure deletes the install program on bootup, and if you install again before this happens, you will lose the ability to uninstall using the install program. IV. Getting Help The Acrobat home page can be found at http://www.adobe.com/Acrobat on the internet. From here, you may download all the currently available versions of the Acrobat Reader. You can also find out how to configure Acrobat with the various HTML Viewers, including WebExplorer. Look to these Web pages for up-to-date information on Acrobat 3.0 and the OS/2 Acrobat Reader. V. Reporting Problems Please do not send E-mail directly to Adobe concerning problems with the Acrobat Reader for OS/2. The proper way to report prob- lems regarding Acrobat are through the online bug form on our web site. The URL for this site can be found at: http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta/bugform.html. BEFORE you report problems, PLEASE make sure that the problem you are experiencing is not already a known problem. You can do this by first checking the list below, and also by checking out our list of known problems on the web, available from the Acrobat home page, or by linking directly to http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta/knownbug.html. The bug report page has a form with many entry fields on it. Make sure to complete this form as completely as possible; ESPE- CIALLY the field for "Operating System". That is the only way we will be sure to get the right problems to the right people! We are also open to feature requests and feedback. General product feedback and feature requests can be sent to us using the form at http://www.adobe.com/Acrobat/feedback.html. If you have requests for features specific to the OS/2 and/or OS/2 integra- tion, make sure you mention that on the form. VI. Setting up WebExplorer These are the changes that need to be made to run Acrobat Reader as a helper application to the IBM WebExplorer: a] Set the WebExplorer ini file (EXPLORE.INI) mailcap and extmap variables to the full paths of your existing or new user extension-map and mime type files (i.e. EXPLORE.EXT and EXPLORE.CAP). The EXPLORE.INI file can be found in your ETC directory. To figure out where your ETC directory is, edit your OS/2 config.sys file and search for ETC: E c:\config.sys (if the OS2 directory is on a different drive letter, use the appropriate letter). You should see a line like this: SET ETC=C:\MPTN\ETC Change to this directory to edit your EXPLORE.INI. You should see something like this: [advanced] ; advanced user settings - edit with care! ; ; mailcap= specifies full path to user mailcap file ; format is: mime/type; program_name params %s ; example: image/jpeg; jview -r %s ; no wildcards allowed, no piping, no unix commands ;mailcap= ; extmap= specifies full path to user extension map file ; format is: mime/type extension_list ; example: image/jpeg jpg jpeg jpe ;extmap= Edit this to look something like the following: [advanced] ; advanced user settings - edit with care! ; ; mailcap= specifies full path to user mailcap file ; format is: mime/type; program_name params %s ; example: image/jpeg; jview -r %s ; no wildcards allowed, no piping, no unix commands mailcap=c:\mptn\etc\EXPLORE.CAP ; extmap= specifies full path to user extension map file ; format is: mime/type extension_list ; example: image/jpeg jpg jpeg jpe extmap=c:\mptn\etc\EXPLORE.EXT If you already had existing files listed , do not change EXPLORE.INI, but for the next two steps, simply add the informa- tion to your existing files. (Note: Do not edit the [viewers] section of EXPLORE.INI) b] Modify or create your user "MIME/application map" or mailcap file (ie. EXPLORE.CAP). Create it in your ETC directory if one doesn't already exist. If it does exist, then place the following line into it: application/pdf; C:\ACROREAD\ACROREAD.EXE %s Modify or create your user "extension map" or extmap file (i.e. EXPLORE.EXT). Create it in the ETC directory if one doesn't already exist. If it does exist, then place the following line into it: application/pdf pdf app Note: the "app" is a bug fix for a problem in the WebExplorer. c] That's it. When you start your WebExplorer, any links to PDF files should activate Acrobat now. VII. Setting Up Netscape Some folks may not realize this, but Netscape for Windows has no problems starting up OS/2 applications. Unfortunately, the OS/2 reader won't draw itself into Netscape's window the way the 16 bit Windows version does. You may set up Acrobat in the helper page of the General Preferences. Add a file extension for PDF (if you don't already have it). Click on Launch the Application. Click the browse button to locate the Acrobat Reader for OS/2 on the computer. That's it. Don't forget to do a save from the options menu. Note: If you had previously been using an 16 bit Amber reader for windows with the Netscape plugin installed, everytime you reboot netscape you will lose this association, since the plug-in resets the PDF association to the Windows viewer. If you want to save the association to the OS/2 viewer, rename the plugin in the NETSCAPE\PLUGINS directory from NPPDF16.DLL to NPPDF16.SAV. This will keep the Acrobat plug-in from loading. VIII. Known Problems There are a number of features and bug fixes yet to be incorpo- rated into the Acrobat Reader for OS/2. An up-to-date list can always be found at: http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta/knownbug.html Below are some of the problems known for this Web release: -You can't execute the installer from a path that has spaces in it. This is a problem with the IBM installer. -About box splash screen is dismissed by clicking right in the middle of the image, or by hitting escape. -Printing to HPLaserjet 4Plus and some other HP printers may cause some images to print upside down., especially with Laserjet driver version 30.456. We suggest you use an earlier or later version of the laserjet driver. If you experience similar prob- lems with other printers or drivers, please let us know through the web page mentioned above. -You may get the following message when opening files on CD-ROMS or drives with no disk space left on them: Unable to extract the embedded font 'font name'. Some characters may not display or print correctly. You can fix this by setting the working directory for acrobat to any drive with lots of disk space. -Printing complex PDF to non-postscript printers may require lots of swapper space. If you plan on doing this, make sure you have 150Mb or more free. You can find out which drive is your swapper drive by checking the "SWAPPATH" setting in config.sys. -When printing to HP Laserjet printers, the default options should be changed for better performance. The option "HPGL/2" should be turned off, and the option "Use large buffers" should be turned on. This is the opposite of the defaults. -Printing to a Unix printer (using lprportd) produces no output. -Online help is not available for internet download version. -Ctrl-Ins doesn't copy selection to clipboard right now; use <ctrl-C> instead. -Some of the newer shortcut keys are not implemented yet. -When multiple links to PDF files are opened simultaneously from the WebExplorer, some PDF files may be left over in the TMP directory after WebExplorer completes. This problem is likely to remain in the final version, so it is a good idea to clean out your "TMP" directory (as defined in config.sys) from time to time. -Custom color isn't working yet for full screen viewing. -Switching views may cause random black box to appear over a word on the page. -There are problems using 16 bit (65536) color video modes with certain video card/driver combinations. Try switching to 8 bit or 24 bit if you experience these problems. -Folks with certain video cards are experiencing trouble: Elsa Winner1000 cards using 1.03 drivers should be upgraded to 1.04 drivers (available on compuserve and elsewhere) Older Matrox drivers should be updated to the latest version.