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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Acrobat and PDF</TITLE></HEAD>
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<H1>Extending the Web</H1><P>
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The World Wide Web is deliberately extensible.
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You can easily add new document formats to the Web
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just by documenting them and providing viewers.
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There are two major document type extentions in use today:
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<UL><LI>Where the structure or content of the document is paramount,
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use SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879).
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A free viewer called <A HREF="http://www.sq.com/panor-pr.htm">Panorama</A>
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is available from <A HREF="http://www.sq.com">SoftQuad Inc</A>.
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For other products see <A HREF="http://www.sgmlopen.org">The SGML/Open Consortium.</A>
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<LI>Where the presentation and graphical appearance of the document
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is paramount, one format to consider is Adobe's Portable Document Format.
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</UL>
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<H1>Acrobat and the Portable Document Format (PDF)</H1>
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<P>Acrobat(tm) is the name of a family of software from
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<A HREF="http://www.adobe.com">Adobe Systems, Inc</A>.
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Acrobat software deals with files in the Portable Document Format, or PDF.
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If you think of PostScript as both a programming language and a
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marking language, think of PDF as just the marking language, with all
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the programming "expanded" or "unrolled". PDF is good for exchanging
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documents where you want it to look pretty regardless of whether the
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recipient has a Mac, MS-Windows, UNIX/X Windows, or even MS-DOS.
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<P>PDF also includes several hypertext capabilities, including
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"bookmarks" and "hyperlinks".
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The textbooks in this directory demonstrate both of these capabilities...
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<H1>How can I view PDF files?</H1>
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<P>
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You need to:
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</P>
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<OL>
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<LI>Get and Install a viewer.
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<LI>Tell your Web viewer about the PDF filetype and the PDF viewer.
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</OL>
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<H2>Installing a Viewer</H2>
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<P>
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If you are on SunOS or Solaris, you can use Adobe's free AcroRead program.
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We have a copy of it on the CD, for you to <A HREF="acroinst.html">install</A>.
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Or, you may wish to <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/Acrobat.html">FTP the latest version.</A>
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<P>
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If you are on Linux, you can either <A HREF="???">ftp the latest Ghostscript</A>.
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<P>As an alternative under Linux, or on other UNIX platformst that support
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MS-DOS or MS-Windows emulation, you can
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<A HREF="messinst.html">install the DOS or MS-Windows version</A>
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of Acrobat Reader for use under <I>dosemu<I>, <I>Wine<I>, <I>Wabi</I> or
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whatever. This has <I>not</I> been tested!
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<P>
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On platforms other than those listed, you may wish to contact
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<A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/Acrobat.html">Adobe's Web Site</A>
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to see if there is software for your platform.
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<H2>Telling your Web Viewer about PDF</H2>
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<P>...
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