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About the Adobe Acrobat Reader
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What Is The Adobe Acrobat Reader?
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| The free Adobe Acrobat
Reader is an easily installed software package that allows you to view, navigate, and print Adobe PDF files. It
is the international standard that works across all major computing platforms, retaining all of the formatting
and colors of the original document. All of the Recipe files available for download from the Pressure Cooker Recipes
Website were created using Adobe Acrobat 4.0 software. Using the Adobe Acrobat Reader makes it possible for our
visitors to view and print our files in their original format on almost any computer platforms or printer.
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How Do I Get The Free
Acrobat Reader?
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- Go to the Adobe Web site by clicking on the "Get Acrobat" logo.
- Choose the Reader version, platform version, and language version you need from the pop-up lists.
- Follow the easy instructions included with the Acrobat Reader software to install Acrobat Reader
on your computer.
- Download
the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader
NOTE: Remember where you've save the downloaded file.
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Why Would Anyone Want A Document In Acrobat (Pdf)
Format?
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| Web pages can look slightly different depending on the web browser, the version of the web browser, and the
type of computer. Sometimes documents need to look exactly the same in every instance, by saving documents in Adobe
Acrobat format, the person who creates the file is assured that the file will look exactly the same and print exactly
the same, no matter who reads it or what kind of computer
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How Am I Supposed To Read An Acrobat File?
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| Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf) are read with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This application is available for Macintosh,
Windows 95/98, Windows 3.11, Windows NT, OS/2, DOS, UNIX, LINUX, Sun SPARC and Silicon Graphics.
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Ok, I've Downloaded The Acrobat Reader -- Now What?
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| The Adobe Acrobat Reader is software, which means that like any other software, you have to install it. The
Adobe site will walk you through the installation process.
Adobe Acrobat Reader is a software program that interprets files that are in
portable document format (PDF). The first step in being able to open PDF is to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed
on your computer. Visit the Adobe web
site to download this FREE utility, or for further details.
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How Do I View A
Recipe Booklet?
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 Once you have successfully installed Acrobat
Reader on your computer, you can view any of the
Recipe Booklets on my website as well as any other
PDF document. (I recommend that
you print out these instructions for reference.)
When you click on the link to a PDF file Acrobat Reader will automatically start
up and then you can view, save or print the document. Depending on your browser. Acrobat may open inside your
browser window or in a new window.
To view a Recipe
Booklet or any other PDF file in your web browser's window, click on the file
link. Each Recipe Booklet is separate. Depending on how your browser is configured, you need to save
the PDF file using a different method
- Using the right side mouse button,
click to open the dialog box:
- Click on the "Save" option.
- Designate where on your hard drive you want to save the PDF file and note
the file name and where you are saving it. I recommend that you make a special
folder to save your recipe file
so you can always find them.
- To open the file after you've saved it, locate the PDF file in your
computer's directory and double-click on it.
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Navigating Acrobat Reader
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- Takes you to the Adobe web site.
- Saves the PDF document on your hard drive in
a folder that you select. Be sure to remember where you have saved the file.
- Prints the document.
I recommend that you save the document to your computer
first, and then print.
- View or hide the navigation menu
if available.
- Copy file - is not available.
- Hand tool to select web objects is not
available.
- Magnify the page view.
- Test selection is not available.
- Goes back to the first page of the file.
- Goes back one page.
- Goes forward one page
- Goes to the last page of the file.
- Switches between magnified views - smaller.
- Switches between magnified views - larger.
- Shows the page full size.
- Fits the page to your screen size.
- Shows a magnified view of the page.
- Searches for a word in the file.
- Repeats the search, looking for the next occurrence.
- Jumps to highlighted text - not available.
- Jumps to highlighted text - not available.
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How Do I Open,Save And
Print The Recipe Booklets?
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After you have installed the Acrobat software your web browser
will automatically recognize that the file that you've selected is a .PDF file and open the file within the browser
itself. The Acrobat Reader that you've already installed will
allow you to display the selected file for online viewing
and save it to your computer for later viewing and printing.
You open Adobe Acrobat files/documents the same way you do anywhere else: go to the file menu, find the document,
and open it, read and study it, and print it at your convenience.
To open the file after you've saved it, locate the special folder you made
to keep all your Recipe
Booklets organized. Find
the PDF file you
want and double-click on it. This will
open the file. Each Recipe Booklet is separate.
 To
save the Recipe Booklet file to your computer. Click on the link to the Recipe
Booklet PDF file you have selected.
Using your right mouse button (for
Windows®) or click and hold (for Macintosh®) choose "Save As," "Save Target As," or "Save Link As" from the drop-down
menu.
Designate where on your hard drive you want to save the Recipe
Booklet PDF file and note
the file name. Now would be a good time to make a special directory just
for your recipes. This is very important,if you don't select the file where you
want to store the Recipe
Booklets your computer will place
it in the last opened folder which could be
anywhere, and that will make if difficult to
find.
You can change the file name to make it easier
to find if you wish.
To print a Recipe
Booklet PDF file, open the file as
described above and then click on the Printer icon
in the Acrobat Reader toolbar. Choose the printer options available and
click OK. As a security measure you cannot
select portions of text in the recipe booklet
files. If you decide to print a recipe separately
just select the page you want and print
the page rather than the whole recipe booklet.
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Dang, I Saved A
Recipe Booklet
It But I Don't Remember Where!
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| If you didn't follow my recommendation
to save your recipe files in a separate
folder you can still find it:
- Click on the Start button
on the lower left of your screen
- Click on the word - Find
- Click on - Files or Folders
- Fill in the box as shown:
- now you will see a dialog
box that looks like this:
- Click Find Now
- Select the file name you want from the choices
that will be shown.
- Now might be a good time to create a new
folder just for your recipe files and save them
all in one place so you can find them again.
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Troubleshooting
From Adobe.
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For more information
or Help
in using the Adobe Reader of using PDF files.
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