Finance Canada
Using the Adobe Acrobat Reader

CONTENTS:
Downloading the Reader - Printing a .pdf document - Saving a .pdf document.

The Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read documents in .pdf format. The Reader is available free of charge from the Adobe WWW site.

Downloading the Reader

• On your computer, make a directory into which the software will be saved (e.g. c:\download).
• Connect to the Adobe WWW site - click here.
• Step 1: Choose the  language version and platform version (Windows95, Windows NT, Mac, Linux, etc.) you need from the drop-down  lists.
• Step 2: Type your name and e-mail address in the text boxes provided.
• Step 3: Click the "Download" button to download the reader to your computer.

NOTE : a text only version of the download page is availabe.

• Install the reader on your computer (Double-click on the downloaded .exe file and following the installation prompts).
• Open a .pdf document using the installed reader.

Printing a .pdf document

• Open a required document in the Reader by clicking on the link.
• Select File-Print from the menu bar in the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Low-end printers cannot handle large Adobe Acrobat documents. Send the document to the printer in sections to avoid printer memory overload.

Saving a .pdf document
NOTE: Once a document has been opened in the Reader by clicking on a link on the Finance Canada WWW site, it cannot be saved to a local drive.

• On your computer, make a directory into which the document will be saved (e.g. c:\download).
• On the Finance Canada WWW site, locate a document you wish to download.
• Right click on the link to the required document and select Save Target As (Internet Explorer) / Save Link As (Netscape) from the drop-down menu.
• When prompted, specify a drive and directory into which the document should be saved (e.g. c:\download).
• Click on Save / OK to save the document.