Reading, printing, and saving the Post Adoption on-line documents.

All the documents available on-line within the site are produced in Portable Document Format [pdf].
This makes it possible to read, print, download and save the documents from most types of computers.

To do this, software called Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe needs to be installed on your computer. It is free to download and the latest version is Acrobat Reader 5.


If you do not have a version of this software installed, you can download the latest version free from: www.adobe.co.uk or to go directly to the download page by clicking here.

 

Technical tips and troubleshooting.

Q - How to print a document or save it to your hard drive.

Ans - At the top of each PDF document there are little icons (pictures) such as a printer and a floppy disk which form part of Acrobat Reader - use these controls to print or save a document (see diagram below). Placing your mouse over each icon informs you what it does.

Q - The document will not open from the link.

Ans - If you are still having problems and you are using Microsoft's browser version IE 4 or 5 for the PC then try clicking on the link to the PDF file you wish to view with the right mouse button. This will bring up a small menu - selecting 'Save Target As' enables you to save the file and open it.
If you are using Netscape 4 the option will be 'Save Link As' and this performs the same task.

Q - If the PDF document opens but only displays a blank page.

Ans - This may be caused by the 'View' is zoomed in to a blank section of the page. Use the dropdown menu (next to page size box) to select a suitable view. Best options to use are 100% or 'Fit width'. Alternatively use the 'plus' or 'minus' symbols to enlarge or decrease the document size (see point 1 on the diagram below).

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Searching PDF's
When you click on the link to a PDF, it will open in your browser window. A toolbar will apppear below the address bar, featuring a set of tools to help you view and search the document.

Placing your mouse over each of the icons (without clicking) will inform you what each of them does.

The 'Find Tool' (a pair of binoculars) is very useful. Clicking on the 'Find Tool' icon allows you to search the document for a phase or word (see point 2 on diagram below). Click the next icon to the right to search for further occcurences of the phrase or word (see point 3 on diagram below).

** Please note that users with Acrobat Reader 3 installed on their computer may experience slight problems in displaying certain fonts used within the on-line documents.