ECR Help: About ECR Begin using ECR Faculty Guidelines for Submitting Materials

ECR User Guide The documents in the Electronic Course Reserve System are PDF (Portable Document Format) files. These files may be viewed using the free Adobe Acrobat software, which is loaded on all PCs in the Library, and most of the PCs in the computing labs on campus. This page contains answers to many of the most frequently asked questions about configuring your web browser to work with Adobe Acrobat Reader, viewing, saving and printing PDF documents. Downloading the Adobe Acrobat Reader Configuring Acrobat to work with your browser Using the reader Printing & downloading issues Saving PDF files for later use Downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader The documents in ECR are PDF (Portable Document Format) files. These files may be viewed using Adobe Acrobat software. If you are using a personal machine off campus which doesn't have the Acrobat Reader loaded, you may download it directly from the Adobe web site. Here's how: Go to the Adobe web site. Fill in their registration form, then click on one of the links to download the Acrobat Reader installer application. You may need to use the "Save Next Link As..." or "Save to Disk" functions of your Web browser. Make a note of where the file is going. After the download is complete, quit your Web browser. Double-click the newly downloaded file. Follow the instructions on your screen. If there is a failure at any point during the installation of Acrobat Reader, the installer performs a complete uninstall. For this reason, it is important not to close the installer application by clicking its close box in the upper right corner of the background window after clicking the "Thank You" dialog box that appears at the end of the installation. If you wait for a second or two, the installer will automatically close the background windows after the installation is complete. The installation procedure will ask you to read and accept the Electronic End-User License Agreement. That's all there is to it. If you have any trouble, see the Adobe Acrobat Reader Troubleshooting Guide. Configuring Adobe Acrobat Reader If you had Netscape Navigator installed on your PC before you downloaded the Adobe Acrobat Reader, you don't need to do anything else. If you install Navigator after Acrobat Reader is already installed, a special file known as a "plug-in" must be in Navigator's "Plug-ins" folder before you can view PDF files within Netscape, and you'll have to move this file yourself. Consult Adobe's web site for Browser Configuration Issues. Using the Acrobat Reader to read PDF Files: In Netscape Navigator, Acrobat Reader should start automatically when you click on a PDF document. To launch Acrobat directly, double click the Acrobat Reader icon. Then from the File menu, select Open to open the desired document. The Acrobat Reader toolbar is fairly intuitive: | displays first page displays previous page displays next page | displays last page goes to previous view returns to next view To get a larger or smaller view of a page, click the icons of the magnifying glass, then click the area of the document you want to resize. Printing PDF Files Printing a PDF file is pretty simple. Click the printer icon at the far left edge of the toolbar. Begin using ECR

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