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Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0
Page-at-a-time downloading
With page-at-a-time downloading (byte-serving), the Web server sends only
the requested page of information to the user, not the entire PDF document. As
a reader of the PDF document, you do not have to do anything to make this
happen; it is communicated in the background between Acrobat Reader and
the Web server. If you want the entire PDF document to continue downloading
in the background while you view the first page of requested information, be
sure Allow Background Downloading is selected in the General preferences
dialog box (default).
If your Web server does not support page-at-a-time downloading, you can use
a CGI application to do it.
Reading PDF on the Web
Each document or other resource on the Web is identified by a unique uniform
resource locator (URL) address. Clicking a URL link to a PDF document on the
Web can open the document identified by the URL in your Web browser for
inline viewing, or in Acrobat Reader if Reader has been set up as a helper appli-
cation for your browser. You can also read PDF files that have been embedded
in HTML documents on the Web. For more information, see
Reading PDF in a
Web browser
,
Reading embedded PDF files
, and
Setting up Acrobat Reader as
a helper application
.