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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sample Reports in PDF format.
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 00:40:54 -0500
References: <000a01c0a29f$90ce1aa0$a121fea9@mrdn1.ct.home.com><4.1.20010301211708.024baaa8@pop.mis.net>
In-Reply-To: <008e01c0a2c9$08c617a0$86f09318@ne.mediaone.net>


Sue Canney wrote:
>Okay, I've finally been able to open the sample reports. I wasn't handling
>things correctly because I was thinking of it as a regular type download
>file and thought I could just double click on it in Windows Explorer to open
>it, kind of like a word document. Instead, once I opened Acrobat and
>clicked on File I could see the file just sitting there. It opened fine
>from that point.
>
>I must be a little dense but maybe someone else is treating it as a file
>that you can just double click on and it will open instead of opening up
>Acrobat and accessing it from there. Does this make sense or is it only
>me..... Duh?!?

The density is on both sides as the terms we normally use are somewhat
ambiguous. IAC, your thought to double-click on the hyperlink in the
website is not wrong. The problem is in your browser and how it perceives
the Acrobat Reader. In my case, that is all I do --- double-click the
link. Then Internet Explorer starts the download process. From this
point, I am unsure exactly what happens (couple of different things could
happen), but the result is that Acrobat is started and then the PDF file is
read into Acrobat as if the file were on your computer.

It may be that Internet Explorer (or your browser) considers Acrobat as a
plug-in program which works with your brwoser or it may simply be that your
browser looks at the fact that the file is in PDF format is requires
Acrobat to be opend first. The result would be the same as noted above if
your browser allows either situation to work. Evidently some browsers
either don't work this way _or_ is not configured to work this way. If you
have Internet Explorer and Acrobat both installed on your system, I would
thing it should work. But if it doesn't, I don't know why it doesn't. On
the other hand, it appears that Netscape considers Acrobat to be a plug-in
and maybe that is your problem.

Maybe someone else can tell us more (possibly more than we want to know).
Anyway, you can now download the Zip files to your disk.


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