Tech tip #40 - filling in PDF forms (and some sunny stuff!)

Hello all and Happy New Year,

Sunny news:

As of today (January 4^th),  the mornings will start getting brighter as the sun will start to rise earlier than the 8:05 it has been for the past few days. (Sunsets (today 4;32 PM) have been getting later since the 10^th of December (4:18 PM). This morning also marks the time when we are closest (by almost 4 million km!) to the sun (147,101,082 km instead of 152,093,163 km on July 3^rd). You can find out a bit more about this here: https://bobs-spaces.net/2017/01/03/earth-at-perihelion-2017/

Fillable PDFs:

If you need to complete a fillable PDF form you may find that it does not work well in your browser. To properly fill in most of these forms, you need to use the actual Adobe Acrobat program and not the web browser plugin. In general, you want to download the file, work with it in the proper Acrobat program, save it and then send it back. This applies to, for example, filling out the Sodexho food request form.

To fix this, you can just right-click and then download the file, but your best option is to go into your browser settings (see instructions below for Chrome) and make sure that it uses the “system viewer

Instructions for Chrome:

Go into the settings menu (from the three dots in the top right corner of your page)

Choose “show advanced settings

Click on the “Content settings” button

And then check the “open PDF files in the default viewer application” checkbox

For this to work, you will need to have changed the system default application from Edge to Adobe Acrobat. These instructions were sent out at the start of the year, but can be found on the SMUS wiki: https://secure.smus.ca/wiki/index.php?title=SMUS_Windows_10_FAQ#How_do_I_open_PDFs_in_Adobe_Acrobat.3F

If you would like any help doing this, please let one of your EdTech support teachers know, and they will be glad to help.

These tips are now being archived at the following location in a blog format: http://smustechtips.blogspot.ca

Also, please let me know if you have any tips you would like to share!

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Mike Jackson, Science Teacher

Senior School Technology Coordinator

St Michaels University School, Victoria, BC