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Just what is downloading? Well, it's the process of obtaining software, programs, and/or applications via the internet, from someone else's website...
Also, it's the process of requesting a web page on our browser. Example. When you clicked on the Beginners link on my opening web page, you actually told your computer, through your browser, to go out on the internet, find my web page called Beginners, and "download" it to your computer and display it on your monitor using your browser. In fact, each time you click on a link on a web page, that is what you are doing.
Using your computer, internet connection (to your ISP), and your browser, you are telling the computer to "go find a particular web page and download it to my computer and show it to me on my monitor...in my browser." And, of course, the computer obeys your command and does what it is told...well...most of the time.
Many programs (software/applications) are available...free...on the internet. Some programs are required to "view" certain web page content. A good example is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Many websites use Adobe Acrobat to display large quantities of text and or forms...such as the Internal Revenue Service website. The IRS has made available all of their tax forms and instructions, as well as publications on their website. So, since it's "tax time", I thought that maybe we could focus on two things.
1. We'll "download" a free Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe's website and...
2. We'll "download" a tax form and instructions from the IRS website...once we have downloaded and installed the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
1st problem is where to find Adobe Acrobat Reader. Well, we have lots of choices. We could search for Adobe Acrobat Reader, or we could just go to the IRS Website and see if they have a link to Adobe Acrobat Reader. Guess what? They do...as do most pages whose content contains Adobe Acrobat text/graphics. So...here we go...off to the IRS website.
It's at: (I know because I have a link to it on my Tax Pages.)
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/forms_pubs/forms.html
Here's the first thing we see on the IRS website for forms:
To retrieve an item please follow these steps:
Select a file format. For additional information about a format click on the format name below. (PDF format allows you to view your form electronically on most computers. The freely available Adobe Acrobat reader is required to view and print PDF files.)
Select the file(s) you wish to receive. To select multiple items, hold the control button down while selecting.
Press the 'Review Selected Files' button. A results page will be displayed with links to the file(s) you requested.
Select the file title to retrieve.
For additional information see Frequently Asked Downloading and Printing Questions.
Notice the 2nd sentence.."The freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader....with the underline? Well, that's a link to Adobe's download site for the reader and the IRS knows that many people do not have the reader so they let you know that you need one to view PDF files and then they immediately provide you with a link to Adobe's download site. That's considered good netiquette!
PDF? Well, if we go quickly to www.whatis.com we will find that PDF means... According to Whatis.com:
PDF (Portable Document Format)
PDF is also an abbreviation for the Netware Printer Definition File.
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format that has captured all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that you can view, navigate, print, or forward to someone else. PDF files are created using Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Capture, or similar products. To view and use the files, you need the free Acrobat Reader, which you can easily download. Once you've downloaded the Reader, it will start automatically whenever you want to look at a PDF file.
PDF files are especially useful for documents such as magazine articles, product brochures, or flyers in which you want to preserve the original graphic appearance online. A PDF file contains one or more page images, each of which you can zoom in on or out from. You can page forward and backward.
The Acrobat product that lets you create PDF files sells in the $200-300 range. A non-Adobe alternative is a product called Niknak from 5D, a company in the UK. (The Reader itself is free and can be used as a plug-in with your Web browser or can be started by itself.) Some situations in which PDF files are desirable include:
Graphic design development in which team members are working at a distance and need to explore design ideas online
Help desk people who need to see the printed book that users are looking at
The online distribution of any printed document in which you want to preserve its printed appearance
Acrobat's PDF files are more than images of documents. Files can embed type fonts so that they're available at any viewing location. They can also include interactive elements such as buttons for forms entry and for triggering sound and Quicktime or AVI movies. PDF files are optimized for the Web by rendering text before graphic images and hypertext links.
Here's Adobe's Acrobat Reader download site.
Notice that Whatis.com also, after their definition, add a link to Adobe's download site? More good netiquette by another unrelated website...
So, in a flash, we now have a way to get to Adobe's website to download their Acrobat Reader...it's free of course, and when we are finished downloading, we will install the program and finally, we'll go back to the IRS website and actually view and then download or print an actual tax form.
Here we go...
Please note that there is a lot of info on their "download" page. The important part is at the "gray area" at the bottom...the title says: Download the FREE Acrobat Reader
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discussion.
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