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Mountain Spark Gaps,
is published
irregularly. Only newsletters from the
last several years are
on the website. To read the on-line
copies of the newsletter which are in Adobe
".PDF" format, you must have a
copy of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader©
installed on your computer. If you need a copy
of the Reader, see the directions at the bottom
of this page. If you
already have the Reader, you can download
a newsletter now. When you are done reading
and/or printing the newsletter, close the Reader
and you should return to this page.
To Download a Newsletter to your computer for
future viewing: Right Click on the
newsletter link to call up a special menu. Click
on "Save Target As...". This will start the file
download process, including an opportunity to
specify the name and path (the directory/
folder) where the file will be stored.
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Some older newsletters on file with
web master.
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will make changes to your Windows settings, so
that Windows will automatically load Acrobat
Reader anytime you open a file with a .PDF
extension (PDF = Portable Document File).
If the installation works as expected, when you
click on a newsletter link above, the newsletter
should display automatically. If
not, then your browser will give you a chance to
download the file to disk. From disk you can
then open the Acrobat Reader to view and/or
print the newsletter. For more information or if
you encounter problems, contact the
webmaster.
About Adobe Acrobat files: All
web pages are written in a special language
called HTML. The big advantage of HTML is
that it can display a web page -- its text and
images -- on almost any computer screen. The
corresponding disadvantage is that it's
impossible to make a page display the exact same
way on every screen. For example, it would
be impossible to make our club's newsletter
appear on your display looking the same as it
does in print. Likewise, you wouldn't be able to
print out a well-formatted copy of the
newsletter from the web either -- the printer
would try to replicate the distorted copy you
see on your screen.
Acrobat files get around this limitation. In
essence, a ".PDF" file is a
picture of the document you want to see.
It's not text, and it can't be read by word
processors. That's why you need the special
reader. The reader will allow you to squeeze a
whole page at a time onto your screen; or it
will let you zoom in so that you can read the
print more comfortably. The reader will also
allow you to print out the newsletter so that it
looks nearly exactly as it was meant to be
printed. You should find a better explanation of
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