Saving Word files in pdf

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Adobe reader email function

Question: Is it possible to change Adobe Reader (on the student computers) to automatically allow email?

Response: The Adobe email function requires that the person using the machine have it set up with their *personal* email information so that it can send the message. In a public environment, this is not possible. The machines are set up with a generic profile, with all of the settings locked down so that email cannot be personally configured. If it were otherwise, one person could then send email as another which would lead to chaos and lawsuits.

I fight with this concept continually, as large companies assume correctly that 95% of computers are set up properly for individual use- and they cater to this configuration. They rarely allow these confusing options to be disabled or removed for public use computing.

Online submission of PDF files

Poynter computers open all PDF documents with Acrobat (the full version). In order to work with a form that needs to be submitted electronically, the backup computer at reference and the two end computers in the horsehoe have been set to open PDF from within the browser. Students who need to submit this form (FTIC First Time in College) can now do so. Please note that you may have a problem printing from PDF’s to the Ricoh machines. If you do please save them and then reopen then in Acrobat Reader.

Acrobat forms

If students encounter a problem and suspect that it could be necessary to open the form in a browser, you can change the default preferences for the way PDF's are displayed by opening Acrobat reader, going to Edit and Preferences. Under the Internet section there is a checkbox for "display in browser" that you can check and then any pdf will then open within the browser. If it becomes a popular solution then we may want to indicate a machine that is set this way, since this alteration stays set and even survives a reboot of the machine. Note that using File & Print from the program menu doesn't work properly when pdfs open within the browser- an issue that was discovered by Kaya and Marcy during the copier training.