Adobe Acrobat Installation

Acrobat Reader is a free program designed by the Adobe Corporation.  It works with Internet Explorer to allow you to view your IC Settlements from PeopleSoft, as well as any other PDF document.  The latest version is 8, although versions 6 and 7 are common and should still work.

What is a PDF? 
PDF stands for Portable Document Format.  It is the de-facto standard in the computing world for reading documents.  You use the Adobe Acrobat Reader program for viewing PDF’s.

What do I need to do? 
If you already have Adobe Acrobat, you do not need to re-download it.  To check, click the Start button and go to Programs.  If you already have Acrobat Reader, you should see a red icon called Adobe Reader 8.  Similarly, you may also see the same icon on your desktop.

If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you will have to go to the Adobe homepage and download/install the program.

Downloading Acrobat

To begin, go to this link:  
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

You can also copy and paste the above link into your Internet Explorer window.

You will find yourself on the Adobe Reader download main page. 

	Up at the top left, there is a large yellow ‘Continue’ button.  You will want to click on that, but first be sure to uncheck the ‘Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition’.  This is software that you do not need.
	The next screen, similar to the first, offers you yet another ‘extra’ piece of software that you do not want.  Uncheck the ‘Fee Google Toolbar’ checkbox and select ‘Download Adobe Reader’ at the top.

The next screen is simply thanking you for downloading Adobe Reader and offering you to Register it.  Don’t bother registering it.

There is an important warning however.  Many newer browsers will prompt you to allow the installation of programs via the web, but only if you say so.  You must manually override this to allow the program to be downloaded.  If you have an older browser you may not be prompted at all.

Up at the top of the browser window, you may see a gold bar at the top saying something to the effect that it is protecting your computer and is not downloading and/or installing the file.  Click on the gold bar and you will receive a small pop-up window asking you to Install ActiveX Control (the gold bar will also switch to a blue colour).  Go ahead and install this.

 

The following pop-up should appear after allowing the ActiveX control on your web browser. Click on the ‘Install” button.

The download and installation should begin automatically.  Depending on the speed of your computer and internet connection, this could take several minutes.

	Once the computer has downloaded the files, it will automatically ask you if you’d like to now install them.  Click on the ‘Run’ button when this window appears.
	Again, depending on the speed of your system, the installation can take from 30 seconds to 5 or 10 minutes to complete.

	Once installed, Acrobat will pop-up with a window to let you know that it went in OK.
	If you look on your desktop, you should now see an icon similar to this. You’re done!

Troubleshooting Acrobat

Acrobat is designed to integrate with Internet Explorer, meaning it will open up the PDF (such as your statement) from within the browser window.  90% of the time this works great, but from time to time it doesn’t.  You can always view the PDF not from the browser, but rather from Acrobat Reader itself.  Quite often this resolves problems such as blank pages or things getting ‘stuck’ in Internet Explorer. There is a small configuration change that needs to happen. Open up Adobe Acrobat.  From the main menu, select the Edit button.  Go all the way down and select ‘Preferences’.

Acrobat is designed to integrate with Internet Explorer, meaning it will open up the PDF (such as your statement) from within the browser window.  90% of the time this works great, but from time to time it doesn’t.

You can always view the PDF not from the browser, but rather from Acrobat Reader itself.  Quite often this resolves problems such as blank pages or things getting ‘stuck’ in Internet Explorer. There is a small configuration change that needs to happen.

Open up Adobe Acrobat.  From the main menu, select the Edit button.  Go all the way down and select ‘Preferences’.