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Getting and Installing Acrobat Reader

The papers are held as Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. You may download Acrobat Reader 4.05 or higher for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX from the Adobe website if you do not already have a copy of the Acrobat Reader software. It should be fairly easy to install the software on your computer.


Acrobat Reader for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT Windows 2000

Download the latest version of Acrobat Reader for Windows to the harddisk of your PC into a directory of your choice, open that directory and double-click the downloaded file (e. g. Rs405eng.exe). Follow the installer's on-screen instructions.


Acrobat Reader for Macintosh

Download the latest version of Acrobat Reader for Macintosh to the harddisk of your Mac into a folder of your choice, open that folder and double-click the installer icon. Follow the installer's on-screen instructions.


Acrobat Reader for UNIX (SUN Sparc, HP, IRIX (SGI), AIX, Digital UNIX)

Download the latest version of Acrobat Reader for your operating system to the harddisk of your computer into a directory of your choice. Unpack the file with the ``gunzip'' and ``tar'' commands into a temporary directory (see UNIX systems administrator guide or manual pages for details). Change to that temporary directory, change to the XXX.install subdirectory, where `XXX' stands for your operating system, and type ./INSTALL. Follow the installer's on-screen instruction. You may want to read the file INSTGUID.TXT and any `readme' file before.

When the installation is complete, type <install path>/bin/acroread to launch the Acrobat Reader.


Acrobat Reader for Linux-iX86

For many Linux distributions (RPM-) packages exist which allow easy software installation and upgrade. You will probably find a package with Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher on the Web site of your Linux distributor, or you may search for ``acroread'' on http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM.

Alternatively you may follow the procedure described above for other UNIX operating systems.


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