To learn about Adobe Acrobat, browse in WWW starting at the Adobe Home Page. From there you can get to various Portable Document Format (PDF) sample documents, and can download and read them at your leisure (see instructions below). With Adobe Acrobat, any document that can be converted to PostScript (i.e., any that can be printed on a PostScript printer) and thence to PDF can be augmented with hypertext links.
Here is how you can read Adobe Portable Document Format files with the
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Option 1 is to download the Reader from the Adobe pages (http://www.adobe.com)
to your own PC or Mac or Unix computer. Option 2 is to use
video.cs.vt.edu
where you will add the following setenv line
to your .login file,
or copy that file anew from /home/video/fox/.login:
setenv DPSNXOVER true
Then, launch the Adobe Acrobat Reader to access a version of
the MPEG standard with the command:
acroread /home/video/fox/pdf/SeoulCD.pdf
On your own computer you can access this through the WWW at
http://video.cs.vt.edu:90/~fox/pdf/SeoulCD.pdf
You can now explore use of the Adobe Acrobat Reader, and at the same time learn about the international standard for movie compression. This document demonstrates table of contents links to various parts of the document, as well as thumbnail sketches of the pages. To demonstrate that you have mastered this, please send the instructor the 2nd reference in the Bibliography. (Hint: Open the Table of Contents view, go to Annex G, use the "abc" Select, and then use Copy under the Edit menu to grab the entry.)
To see more hypertext features, access another of the several
sample files in /home/video/fox/pdf as follows:
acroread /home/video/fox/pdf/PSinfo.pdf
or use your WWW browser (with Acrobat Reader attached as a helper
application) to access
http://video.cs.vt.edu:90/~fox/pdf/
and the various files in that directory.
For example, you can access the above-mentioned file at
http://video.cs.vt.edu:90/~fox/pdf/PSinfo.pdf
Follow the hypertext links to the Visual Overview and then to the part about Type 1 fonts. Please tell the instructor how many typefaces are in the Adobe Type Library and how many are in Type 1 format.