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I want to talk a little bit about the way I have my computer setup. You may have noticed that I am making these training cd recordings on a Macintosh computer, but the beauty of acrobat is looks exactly the same and works the same on a windows platform. So with that in mind I am going to talk about how the computer is setup and please understand this will be essentially the same setup on the windows side. Notice on my computer here I have several different icons on my screen. I want to draw your attention to the two in the upper left hand corner here. These are icons for acrobat and acrobat reader - they happen to be the same graphical icon. So it's important that I identify them correctly. This is a screen icon for a pdf document. Right here the stereovue document; also I have several different icons or aliases for different pieces of software which I use in conjunction with acrobat - so these are different pieces of design or content creation software. I have some printer drivers down here and very quickly one of them is a standard adobe printer driver that allows me to obviously print my document out to an adobe postscript printer but it also allows me to save a postscript file which is what I need when I use adobe or adobe acrobat distiller. Distiller is the software that converts postscript into a pdf file. Earlier version of the acrobat came with the pdf writer and this was a convenient little tool or printer driver for the Macintosh. It doesn't work well with complex documents such as something that I might produce out of indesign - a document with lots of text and bitmap images or vector based images all mixed up together. But it does create pdf's quite easily from a simple Microsoft Word document. So sometimes I used this when I just want to create simple pdf files. There is the equivalent of this, called pdf maker on the windows platform. It also does a good job of creating a simple pdf files. But of course I think more successful solution for creating pdf files is using acrobat distiller. I am going to talk about how to set that up in later movies. Here is my folder or directory that adobe acrobat is actually in and you can see that when you install acrobat you get a whole lot of stuff with it. We have the actual software here and on the Macintosh I can go and find out how much of my memory is actually allocated to it. It really doesn't use that much memory but the larger the files you want to use - recommend adding, dedicating more memory; but I will leave it at 4 6Mbytes. We have a lot of plug-in extensions that acrobat needs to launch. There is a folder for distiller - as I mentioned acrobat comes with this. This is actually another application that works in conjunction with acrobat. This is the application, which converts postscript into a pdf file. Here is the acrobat help and of course what it really is our help is the online acrobat manual. So this manual, which is about 260 pages, is only 1.7 Mbytes - it is very small. There are several different plug-ins for different types of applications and hardware solutions they even make one now for the Palm pilot. Which is becoming a very popular, portable piece of hardware. There is also a plug-in for Photoshop so you can save pdf files directly out of Photoshop and for that matter also adobe illustrator. And last thing I want to draw your attention is to be the web browser plug-ins. These are very convenient plug-ins the pdf viewer, as I mentioned we will see in a later movie, will allow you to view the pdf documents directly inside a web browser. s the pdf viewer, as I mentioned we will see in a later movie, will allow you to view the pdf documents directly inside a web browser.