Why would I want to install the Adobe Acrobat Reader program, the RealNetworks RealPlayer G2 or the Macromedia Shockwave Flash player?
They are the most popular and most widely used add-on programs for the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator browsers. These add-on programs extend tha capabilities of these browsers to handle various special types of web content which are increasingly used on thousands of leading web sites. You can download these free add-on programmes from their manufacturers’ web sites. But they are all quite large programs – several megabytes each – and they take quite a long time to download over a typical 28.8-33.6 dial-up connection. It’s much quicker and easier to install them from a CD-ROM so we added the latest versions to our Traceability CD-ROM for your convenience. If you don’t have a copy of the Traceability CD-ROM you can usually find these programs on the cover mount CD-ROMs of many popular Internet and PC magazines. The Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to display and print documents in the Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format), this is a sophisticated file format that allows
