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nic87

nic87 Report 28 Oct 2003 17:58

I was wondering what exactly is downloaded when you click on the 'download' hyperlink on the LDS website?! I tried dowloading a page (presuming that that is what would be downloaded) to Adobe Acrobat, but it wouldn't open. Does anyone know what i should download it to, and how to stop it from trying to download to Adobe Acrobat?? Thanks, sorry im being slow today! Nic

Maxine

Maxine Report 28 Oct 2003 19:05

Hi there Try openning the file through word and see if that helps Regards Maxine

nic87

nic87 Report 28 Oct 2003 22:05

it automatically opens in Acrobat, so i can't see any way of opening it in another porgram, do you know how i can change the settings so that it opens somewhere else, please? Thanks for your advice anyway! Nicola

Andrea

Andrea Report 30 Oct 2003 16:50

Could you not just save the page that you want to disk? I have saved all my pages on normal floppy disks and can open them no problem. This way, you are not clogging up space on your PC either.

nic87

nic87 Report 30 Oct 2003 17:03

i just print them out normally, so i might just carry on doing that, but its strange that they wont open in any other program, and that there is no way (that i can see) of chosing to open it where you like!

mab

mab Report 30 Oct 2003 17:04

'Download' selected entries from e.g. the IGI results page downloads a Gedcom file. Could this be what you meant?

Mystified

Mystified Report 30 Oct 2003 17:17

I agree with Marian on this one. Place the gedom in your family tree prog. or a separate file in it whilst you sort it John

nic87

nic87 Report 30 Oct 2003 17:27

thats what im having a problem with- whenever i click the 'download' hyperlink, it tries to open it in Acrobat, and cant. I cant find a way of opening it anywhere else. Sorry for being confusing! I'll ask my ICT teacher at school- he might know. Nicola