Make sure you have the free Adobe Reader installed on your home computer. It is needed for opening and displaying PDF documents.
Many Adobe Acrobat documents are quite large: their size is often measured in Megabytes (millions of bytes) rather than Kilobytes (thousands of bytes), as is the case with most HTML files. This can cause problems when you are on a slow connection. A common symptom is that nothing happens after you click on a link to an Adobe Acrobat file. The Adobe Acrobat window comes up, but the document remains blank. In such cases, your solution might be to download the file onto your hard drive and view or print it from there. The process is as follows:
- Hold your mouse over the link to the PDF file
- Right click on the link
- Choose Save Target As in the pop-up menu which appears
- Select a location on your hard drive in the Save As dialog box
- Click on the Save button
The file is now saved onto your hard drive. You can open this file just by double-clicking on its icon.
