This page explains the use of Adobe portable document format (pdf) for viewing, searching and printing the Self-Roster.co.uk documentation. Adobe pdf is also used for printing rotas and cover reports and for viewing and printing many publicly available documents. This page also provides help for the menu that is at the top of every documentation page except this one. Three menu items each cause a pdf document to be downloaded to your local computer:
 
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User Guide in pdf: A comprehensive manual for Self-Roster.co.uk users. It includes the Welcome, Mobile access and Support pages and all the Help pages. It does not include any of the Management or Tutorial pages.
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Management Guide in pdf: A document equivalent to the Management page. This includes model procedures for introducing use of Self-Roster.co.uk into an organisation.
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Tutorial in pdf: Ten lessons and checklists. The lessons are arranged to help each kind of user learn to use all those parts of the system they will need. Unneeded parts can be bypassed. The lessons include explicit examples and open exercises.
 
 
The first three menu items each normally download a document directly into your pdf reader. If, instead, your browser offers to save the document to disk, you might not have the Adobe reader installed on your computer (see below). Using the controls of the Acrobat reader you can save the professional quality documentation to your hard disk or print it. Other features of the Acrobat reader include zoom, search, and copy.
 
 
If you "left click" a link to a pdf document in your browser window, results can vary, depending on exactly how your browser is set up (see "Viewing Adobe pdf" below). Most browsers, however, can be ordered to save the pdf file with the name you want and without launching the Acrobat Reader. The details vary with your operating system.
 
Windows users:
 
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"right click" the link,
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choose "save target as",
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optionally change the name, and then
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save.
 
Mac OS users:
 
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hold the "option" (or "alt") key and
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click on the link, causing the pdf file to be saved in the downloads folder.
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The downloads folder can be chosen under "Preferences".
 
 
To view pdf documents you have saved, you can use the Adobe acrobat reader. To view pdf documents on-line, you can use the Adobe acrobat "plug-in" for your browser. Most versions of the reader can also act as "plug-ins" for most browsers. There are instructions below explaining how to download the acrobat reader.
 
If you "left click" a link to a pdf document in your browser window, results can vary, depending on exactly how your browser is set up.
 
Most browsers can be set up (using the "Preferences") to act in more than one of these ways:
 
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Download and save the pdf file immediately for you. You can view the saved file with the reader.
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Offer you a "Save as" dialog box, in which you can change the filename and location before the file is saved.
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Display the pdf document in a (new) browser window by connecting Adobe acrobat "plug-in" software. In some cases, it is not possible to save the pdf document from a plug-in.
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Display the pdf document by invoking an Adobe acrobat viewer window separate from your browser. We know of no case in which you cannot then save the pdf document.
 
 
Most people will already have the Acrobat reader installed on their computer. If it is missing from your computer, we recommend that you click on the symbol below and follow the simple instructions to download and install it.
 
 
 
Without the Adobe reader you can still view all the documentation as web pages in your browser. You can print the web pages using your browser's print menu item, but the quality will be limited.
 
Because browsers are not normally very good at printing pages we recommend that you view the documentation from the Adobe Acrobat reader then print it using an Acrobat icon or menu item.
 

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