Questions About Viewing Our Gallery

ABOUT ACROBAT READER
TIPS FOR VIEWING OUR RUGS WITH ACROBAT READER
ABOUT DOWNLOAD TIMES
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AOL FOR MACINTOSH PROBLEMS


ABOUT ACROBAT READER
Our Gallery may require the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader® to view enlarged images of our rugs in high-resolution format. Web site visitors view these enlarged rug images as PDFs.

If Adobe Acrobat Reader is not already installed on your computer, you need to download it now in order to view and print our rug PDFs.

If you know you have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here to enter our Gallery.

TIPS FOR VIEWING OUR RUGS WITH ACROBAT READER

We hope you will find it useful to view enlarged PDF images of our rugs on our Web site.

To help you do this, we'd like to call your attention to three useful viewing tools in the Adobe Acrobat Reader software.

If you are a novice user of Adobe Acrobat Reader, we recommend you print out these tips for your reference.

	1.	To view a section of the rug in detail, go to the toolbar located at the top of the screen immediately above the rug image. Click on the magnifying glass tool (shown on left). Now use your mouse to move your cursor, which now appears as a magnifying glass, over the section of the rug you'd like to see in detail and click. For increasingly higher levels of detail, keep clicking.
	2.	To view the rug in a different size, go to the lower left corner of the window where a percentage is shown. Click on the percentage and a pull-down menu will appear (shown on left). You may choose which view you prefer, depending on whether you want the whole rug to Fit to Screen or you'd rather view it in greater detail, for example, at 400%.
	3.	To scroll down and view a part of the rug that's hidden, you have two options: use the scroll bar on the right side of your screen or use the hand icon, which is located in the toolbar at the top of the screen immediately above the rug image. The hand icon (shown on left). If you choose to use the hand icon, click on the icon and then move your cursor over the center of the enlarged rug image on your screen. Hold your mouse button down and then drag the rug up or down or to whatever the position you desire.

ABOUT DOWNLOAD TIMES
Our low-resolution files are designed to give you a quick look at a full size screen image of the selected carpet. Our high-resolution files are designed for navigating up close to see excellent detail as well as giving you the ability to print an excellent quality copy of the carpet for later offline viewing.

Below is a list of approximated download times for various connections:

CONFIGURING AOL FOR MAC OS TO DISPLAY PDF FILES

You can display PDF files within America Online (AOL) 3.0 and later using the PDFViewer plug-in, or using an Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or later viewer as a helper application. When you use the PDFViewer plug-in, AOL displays PDF files within its browser window. When AOL uses an Acrobat viewer as a helper application, PDF files are displayed within your Acrobat viewer window.

DISCLAIMER: Adobe Systems Incorporated does not provide support for AOL software, or for files sent or received using AOL. If the following instructions do not let you view PDF files as you prefer, refer to your AOL documentation or contact AOL.

Using the PDFViewer Plug-in

PDFViewer is included with Acrobat 4.0, Acrobat Exchange 3.0x, and Acrobat Reader 3.0 and later. If you select a PDF file while the PDFViewer plug-in is installed, the file will download to AOL's Temp folder, and then AOL will use your Acrobat viewer to display the file within the browser window.

To use the PDFViewer plug-in, move it from the Acrobat:Web Browser Plug-in folder to the AOL:Plug-ins folder, then make sure Acrobat is deselected as a helper application in AOL. In AOL, choose Member > Preferences, then select Helpers. In the Helpers scroll box, select PDF Files or Portable Document Format, then click Delete.

Configuring AOL to Use Acrobat as a Helper Application

When you configure AOL to use your Acrobat viewer as a helper application, AOL will start the Acrobat viewer, then display PDF files within the Acrobat viewer window.

To configure AOL to use your Acrobat viewer as a helper application:
1. If the PDFViewer plug-in is installed, quit AOL and then remove the PDFViewer plug-in from the AOL:Plug-ins folder.
2. Start AOL.
3. Choose Members > Preferences, then select Helpers.
4. Click Create.
5. Type "PDF Files" in the Description text box.
6. Type "application/pdf" in the MIME Type text box.
7. Type "pdf" in the Suffixes text box.
8. Do either of the following:
- If you're using AOL 4.0, click Select, browse to the Acrobat viewer application on your hard disk.
- If you're using AOL 3.x, choose PDF from the Also Open Macintosh Files With This Type pop-up menu, then type "PDF " in the File Type text box. Make sure to include a space after the "F."
9. If you're using AOL 4.0, select the option labeled, "Open those files with this helper application program even if AO can open them."
10. Click OK.
11. Restart AOL.

Downloading a PDF File to Your Hard Drive

You can download a PDF file from its link on a Web page. After you download a PDF file, you can copy text from it, distribute it, or save it to disk.

To download a PDF file from a link:
1. Position the cursor on the link to a PDF file click, hold the mouse button down, and then choose Download Link To Disk from the pop-up menu.
2. In the Save As dialog box, select a location on your hard disk, then click Save.

To download an open PDF file, click Back in the browser window and then repeat [repeat? Yes.] steps 1-2 above.

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