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United States District Court
Southern District of Florida

301 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33128
(305) 523-5100

Chief United States District Judge
William J. Zloch

 

Court Administrator • Clerk of Court
Clarence Maddox


Technical Support

Viewing Adobe Acrobat PDF files

  • Make sure you have the latest version of Acrobat Reader installed. Download the latest version here.


  • If you are using a Netscape browser, please use Internet Explorer to view the PDF files. Netscape is known to have problems integrating correctly with Adobe Acrobat and thus, will not display PDF files correctly in many circumstances.


  • View the PDF in the Adobe Acrobat Reader program, not through your browser. There are known issues with the Acrobat applet that is used to display PDF's within browsers (both IE and Netscape are affected). You must change your preferences in your Adobe Acrobat Reader. To do this, after opening Adobe Acrobat go to Edit->Preferences->Options and unselect the option "Display PDF in Browser". Now when you click on a link to a PDF document it will open in Adobe Acrobat and not your browser. You may receive a dialog box asking if you want to download the file. If you click on "Open", it will open in Adobe Acrobat so you may view it.


  • Please remember that some documents are fairly large (i.e. Local Rules). Thus, you may see a blank window for some time, depending on your connection to the Internet, while the document is loading. If you click on another link, close the window, or interfere with the window in any way before the document is finished loading, the document might not display at all.

 
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