The Quick Release newsletter and many of the flyers on the Lehigh Wheelmen site have pages that should be printed in landscape mode mixed in with portrait oriented pages. To ensure that each page is printed properly, always use the print command on the Acrobat/Adobe Reader menu, not the one on the browser menu or any other program that is used to display the pdf document.
The Reader menu Print command (or the Printer icon) will bring up a printer dialog panel that has an option to let Reader control the landscape/portrait mode for each page.
Click the printer icon (shown outlined in red)
The Acrobat printer options panel
Click the 'auto-rotate and center pages' option (shown outlined in red)
( Plus any other options you desire )
Problems accessing / downloading PDF files
When nothing seems to happen:
- You have a blank, white screen and there is not a small, square icon with 3 colored dots in the upper left corner
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The Quick Release can be a large file and take a long time to download.
If your browser does not show download progress, it can appear as if nothing is happening.
Most likely, Acrobat Reader has opened in your browser and is accepting the pdf file. It will not show anything until at least the first page has completely downloaded.
Please give it a minute or two.
- You have a white screen with a small, square 3-color icon in the upper left corner
- The icon indicates that Acrobat Reader has received a file, but cannot process it.
Assuming that you have version 5 or higher, your system's security settings may be preventing Acrobat from running.
The more recent editions of the Quick Release and some of the flyers on this system require that Microsoft Active X controls and/or scripts be allowed to run. You might have purposely disabled Active X to prevent malicious websites from infecting your system, or you might have Active X disabled and not be aware of it. If it is disabled, the pdf file will not be opened, and you will not receive an error message.
Active X should be allowed to run when you are visiting a site you know is safe (such as LehighWheelmen.org) but not allowed for general surfing. A good solution is to set your browser security so that when an Active X control or a script wants to run, you are prompted to allow or deny it. The settings shown below are those that are recommended by Enter.Net to its customers.
There is, however, a small penalty to these settings -- you will get many requests to ok the controls.
To view and change the security settings in Microsoft Internet Explorer follow the directions below. The views shown are for MSIE 6, but are probably the same or similar in earlier versions.
On the browser menu, click Tools then Internet Options and when the options panel opens, select the [Security] tab.
After selecting the [Security] tab you should have the following display.
Click on the Internet icon in the white panel to show this view.
Click on the button labeled Custom Level (shown outlined in red).
Set the first three options as shown in the first graphic,
then scroll down and set the next three as shown in the second graphic.
Click OK and exit all the menu panels.
Pop-Ups
With the security settings above, you will always be warned when an Active X control or a script is attempting to run, but Do Not automatically OK them, even when you are on a safe site.
Pop-up and pop-under windows with ads often want to run scripts, so read the message to see if the script is from a site that is signed safe. It may be from an undesirable window that is being built under (behind) the one you are viewing.
Pop-up stopper programs
Programs are available to control pop-ups. Enter.Net offers a good one, Pop-Up Killer, free to its customers. Remember, however, that some safe sites use pop-up windows to present information or ask for input, so a pop-up stopper should have an easy to use on/off switch.
Acquiring PDF Reader
To get the latest version available for your operating system see our download instructions page.
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