Some of the documents on our site are in Portable Document Format (pdf). To view these documents you will require a software program called Adobe Acrobat Reader, freely downloadable from the Adobe website. You can click here to download this software.

Some of the pdf files are very large, especially those containing graphics. As a result, it may take a certain amount of time to download a file. If you click on a link to a pdf file and nothing happens for a while, please be patient - the file should be being downloaded.

However, if nothing still happens, the problem may be that your browser does not have correctly configured plug-in settings. Another problem that might happen with some browsers is that once you open a pdf file you may not be able to save it.

In both cases, the easiest remedy is to go to the link to the pdf file, and instead of opening it, click on the link with right mouse button and choose "Save Target As.." (in Internet Explorer - figure 1) or "Save Link As..." (in Netscape - figure 2). A standard "Save As..." dialogue box will appear, and all you have to do it to choose the location on your drive where the file is to be saved.  Then you will have a copy of the pdf file saved on your disk, and you can easily open it.

Figure 1: Internet Explorer	Figure 2: Netscape Navigator
If you are still experiencing problems with pdf files, please contact your system administrator.

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