This README file contains the information you will need to access the electronic guide, file START.PDF, located on the root directory. This guide acts as the main menu by providing the hypertext links to view, navigate, search, download, and print all data on the disk. IMPORTANT NOTE: To keep documents from closing after going to the pdf file, go to Edit Menu, Preferences, General. There should be no checkmark next to "open cross-document links in same window." ========================================================== Contents ========================================================== Section 1. Software Requirements Section 2. Installation Instructions Section 3. CD-ROM Information Optical Character Recognition Section 4. Using Features Navigating Adobe Searching Section 5. Troubleshooting ========================================================== Section 1. Software Requirements Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 ========================================================== To browse the files on this CD-ROM, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader 6 or 7 installed. In order to take full advantage of the CD-ROM's capabilities, we recommend using a version that includes the "Search" plug- in which enables full-text searches across documents contained on this disk. "Search" is included in the Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 installation on this CD. VERIFICATION FOR "SEARCH" If you already have Acrobat Reader installed on your system, and you would like to maximize the usefulness of this CD-ROM, you will want to verify that you have the "Search" plug-in installed. This can be accomplished by launching Reader and checking either the Acrobat Reader Toolbar for the "Search" icon (binoculars with a piece of paper in the background) or by dropping down the Edit menu and looking for the "Search" menu item. If these options exist, "Search" is installed. If you do not have these options, you may want to proceed with one of the following: 1. Go to Adobe's website, www.adobe.com, to see if "Search" is available for your version of Reader. If it is, install according to their instructions. 2. Install Acrobat Reader from this CD according to the instructions in the next section of this README. "Search" will automatically be installed with Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. 3. Use this CD without having "Search" capabilities. ========================================================== Section 2. Installation Instructions Windows, Macintosh and UNIX Users ========================================================== ----------------------------------------------------- Installation for WINDOWS 95, 98 and NT Users ----------------------------------------------------- INSTALL |___WIN32 Windows 95, 98, NT, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 systems Select Run from the Start Menu and type [CD-DRIVE]:\INSTALL\WIN32\AdbeRdr70_enu_full.exe - Follow the instructions on your screen. Acrobat(R) Reader 7 Windows System Requirements - Intel(R) Pentium(R) processor - Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 95 OSR 2.0, Windows 98 SE, Windows Millennium, Windows NT(R) 4.0 with Service Pack 5, or Windows 2000 - 64 MB of RAM - 24 MB of available hard-disk space - Additional 70 MB of hard-disk space for Asian fonts (optional) ----------------------------------------------------- Installation for Macintosh Users ----------------------------------------------------- INSTALL |___MAC Run the Install Reader 7 program in the MAC folder by performing the following steps: double-click on the folder called INSTALL, double click on the folder called MAC, double-click the Reader + Search 7 Installer. - Follow the instructions on your screen. Acrobat(R) Reader 7 Macintosh System Requirements - PowerPC(R) processor - Mac OS software version 8.6(*), 9.0.4, 9.1, or OS X(*) - 64 MB of RAM - 24 MB of available hard-disk space - Additional 70 MB of hard-disk space for Asian fonts (optional) * Some features may not be available due to OS limitations ----------------------------------------------------- Installation for UNIX Users ----------------------------------------------------- INSTALL |___UNIX For detailed instructions on how to install Acrobat Reader 5, open the UNIX directory in the INSTALL directory on the main level of the CD-ROM and print the INSTGUID.TXT file. Acrobat(R) Reader 5 is available for Sun(R), HP, Silicon Graphics(R), Dec Alpha, and IBM AIX(R) workstations from this CD-ROM. To see if Acrobat(R) Reader 5 is available for additional operating systems, go to www.adobe.com. ========================================================== Section 3. CD-ROM Information ========================================================== This material was published using Adobe(TM) Acrobat(TM) technology to create portable document format (PDF) files. This CD-ROM is a hybrid structure which allows Windows, Macintosh(R), and UNIX(R) users to share the same directory structure and access common files. Included are versions of Acrobat Reader 7 with Search for Microsoft Windows(R) (95, 98, NT, Millenium, and Windows 2000), and Apple Macintosh with System 8.6 or greater. Acrobat 4 or 5 for UNIX [for Sun(R), HP, Silicon Graphics(R), Dec Alpha, and IBM AIX(R)]. ----------------------------------------------------------- Optical Character Recognition ----------------------------------------------------------- The PDFs contained on this CD-ROM were created using Acrobat Capture search technology, either by scanning printed pages or by converting electronic files. In the scanning process, the actual printed pages of the documentation are scanned to create both an image of each page as well as optical character recognition (OCR) data. What you see on your computer monitor or on the page that you print through Acrobat Reader is a rendering of the image, while the OCR data is used behind the scenes for search purposes. Since some images may have been generated from printed pages, the quality may not be as good as when input is from digital sources. In many cases, greater than 100 percent magnification is required to read documents online. Pages printed at 100 percent magnification are easy to read, however. Image quality will also vary depending on the resolution of your monitor. To improve the quality of the image, try activating the option Smooth text and Smooth Images found in the Acrobat Reader under the Edit/Preferences/Display menu. Note: This may affect screen refresh speed. See the Troubleshooting section. The accuracy of the image on your screen or of the printed page should mirror the accuracy of the original page. When you conduct full-text searches, however, the results will vary. Characters that are not recognized successfully during the OCR process are bitmapped, and words containing such characters cannot be searched successfully. They also cannot be copied and printed into word processing software pages without some loss of data. ========================================================== Section 4. Using Features ========================================================== We recommend viewing the Getting Started section provided in START.PDF to familiarize yourself with the navigation and tools used by the electronic guide and Acrobat Reader. In addition, the Acrobat Reader Online Guide also provides essential information. ----------------------------------------------------------- Navigating ----------------------------------------------------------- When viewing an article, there are three methods of returning to the electronic guide. * Select Document/Go To Previous Document on the menu bar * Click (as needed) on the Previous View button located on the Acrobat tool bar. * Use the File selection on the menu bar (File/START.PDF). ----------------------------------------------------------- Searching ----------------------------------------------------------- To learn about the full capabilities of this Search tool, please reference the Online guide. This can be accessed via Help/Reader Help. RECOMMENDATION: Turn ON the Show Document Information option under Edit/Preferences/Search. This allows the Title, Author, Keywords, and Subject fields to be visible when specifying search criteria. You may also want to increase the number of hits by changing the Show First 100 (default) documents to 1000. ========================================================== Section 5. Troubleshooting ========================================================== Q: When I print a document, some of the text is cut off. A: Select Shrink oversized papers to paper size under File/Print. This will capture the entire image on to your print out. Q: When I closed the file I was viewing, the Guide file was also closed and I had to reopen it. A: Instead of closing the file, use Document/Go To Previous Document to return to the electronic guide file. See Navigating section above. Q: Screen refresh and printing takes an extraordinarily long time on my system. A: Under Edit/Preferences/Display, turn off the options for Smooth Text & Smooth Images. Q: When I open the file for the guide, I only get part of the opening image. For example, I see bookmarks on the left hand side of the screen, but nothing on the right. A: You may be using an earlier version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 with Search from this CD (see Section 2. Installation Instructions). Q: (Macintosh users) When I do a search, I get a message "An internal error has occurred. Can't retrieve the results. Sorry." A: This is a known Adobe problem. It occurs when a search is conducted on a group of files in which the first 64 characters of some titles are identical. Please see Help/Reader Help/Searching Catalog Indexes to narrow the search parameters and avoid this from happening. ========================================================== ========================================================== This CD-ROM was produced by the IEEE Computer Society Visit our website at http://computer.org/. 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