1.6 Some Pointers in PDF and APT JavaHelp

PDF Online and Print

Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is the standard for the commercial sector because it is easily produced with modern documentation software and has many excellent features. If you’re new to PDF here are some hints that you may find useful:

•	PDF has links, just like HTML. Anything in blue in this document is a link you can click on to go somewhere else.

•	PDF can print selected pages. Note that the page numbers you enter are PDF’s sequential numbers (look at the bottom of the Acrobat window to see where you are).

•	PDF is searchable with most viewing software such as Adobe’s Reader and Apple’s Preview.

•	You can move up or down page by page using the scroll bar on the right of your Acrobat window; just click above or under the indicator that shows your relative position. You can also click and hold on this indicator to speed through the document.

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If you wish to save this document as a PDF file on your local machine, click with your right mouse button on the Institute’s Web page that has the Phase II information at the spot where you link to the PDF file. In other words, your left button opens the file in Acrobat, but the right button lets you save the file if you pull down to “Save Link as.”

•	Look at Acrobat’s help facility (the help button is in the upper right corner of the Acrobat window) for more pointers.

APT JavaHelp

The Astronomer’s Proposal Tool (APT) user interface provides access to this document via Sun JavaHelp -- a help format specifically designed for Java-based applications.

•	Internal and external cross-references are linked (in blue).

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The JavaHelp viewer provides access to a table of contents and an index; all the listed items are linked to the referenced sections. Once you are in a document, you can use the table of contents, the index, or the cross-references in the text to navigate to other parts of the document as you would in html.

•	JavaHelp has a very useful search utility.

•	Some of the sections in the Phase II Instructions are used for “context-sensitive” help in APT. At the top of the APT user interface, click on the “Help” menu item for access to this document and instructions on how to use the context-sensitive help.

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