Configure Netscape to automatically save .pdf files to a file of your choice.

  1. Open Navigator.
  2. Press Edit.
  3. Press Preferences.
  4. Press Navigator (left side of the menu)
  5. Press Applications (left side of the menu, below Navigator)
  6. You will see an applications list on the right side of the menu that contains two columns. The left column describes the application to be opened, the right side (titled Handled By), is the path to the application in Linux.
  7. Highlight the Acrobat Reader line.
  8. Below this, in the "Download files to" box, enter the path in which you would like the .pdf files stored.
  9. Press the edit button.
  10. A new screen will appear. For "Descripton," enter: Portable Document Format
  11. For "MIMEType," enter: application/pdf
  12. For "Suffixes," enter: pdf
  13. Click the "Save to Disk" option in the lower portion of the screen.
  14. Press the "OK" button.
  15. Log out, log back in, and try to download a .pdf file. It should save it to the file you specified in the "Download files to" box.
If you have difficulty, please contact Kevin Cooper, or Terry Wagoner, in Systems.