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If you have Acrobat Reader installed on your system, you may be able to click on the hyperlink to the PDF file that is displayed at the bottom of each online help topic (in the data frame) and have your browser launch Acrobat Reader and open the PDF file.
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If you are using
3D ACIS Online Help on a PC, your browser automatically knows to launch Acrobat Reader (if installed) when you click on a file with a
.PDF extension.
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If you are on a UNIX platform, you must set up Netscape to launch Acrobat Reader when a hyperlink to a file with a
.PDF extension is clicked.
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The following steps show you how to set up either Netscape Communicator or Netscape Navigator to launch Acrobat Reader. To check this after you have set up your browser, view any topic in the Data frame in online help. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the hyperlink to the name of the PDF file that contains that topic. Acrobat Reader should be started and should automatically open the PDF file.
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Netscape Communicator
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To set up Netscape Communicator 4.x:
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1.
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From the
Edit pulldown menu, select
Preferences.
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2.
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Select
Navigator.
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3.
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Select
Applications.
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4.
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In the applications window select
Portable Document Format. You may have to scroll down to find it.
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5.
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Click the
Edit button.
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The Description field should say "Portable Document Format". The MIME Type field should say "application/pdf". The Suffix field should say "PDF".
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7.
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In the "Handle by" box, select the
Application radio button.
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8.
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In the application text field, type the path to the Acrobat Reader executable (acroread) you installed, followed by a space and a %s. The %s allows Netscape to pass the URL of the PDF file to Acrobat Reader. For example, if you installed the Acrobat Reader executable in
/usr/bin/acroread, the text field should contain:
/usr/bin/acroread %s.
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9.
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Click the OK buttons to close preference windows.
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Netscape Communicator should now be set up so it launches Acrobat Reader when you click on a PDF link.
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