Dear Colleague,
you will find most of the information you need in this Text. Please feel free to contact us for further assistance, and we can go through the process together.
To better help you, please keep the name of your PC /Laptop ready. It looks something like this: A526-D023089 or A521-N-01234.
# Basically you have two choices to make:
1. You either have to open the .pdf files with FREE Software OR
2. You create an Adobe Cloud Account licensed for the University (7 euros/quarterly).
# How to open .pdf files with free software ---
## Some possible choices for FREE .pdf software which may already be installed on your machine:
- Adobe READER / good compatibility for documents created with Adobe products. only for reading, NO editing (editing ONLY in PRO versions)
- Sumatra PDF / small, fast, lightweight PDF reader, sometimes problems with printing .pdf documents created with Adobe products
- PDF24 Editor / FREE pdf editor, small, fast, tons of features, sometimes problems with .pdf files crated with Adobe products
- PDF Sam FREE / some swear by it
## To open the .pdf files do the following: - right-click on a random .pdf file - search for "open with" option - choose "open with" - choose an installed free software of your liking from the list - if you are using Windows 10 and there is no software to be found, scroll down the list, use the option: "look for other software on pc"
# Alternatively you can go PRO (Adobe, that is) ---For 7 euros quarterly the whole cloud of Adobe products opens up for you.
## Prerequisites: ---- Adobe Account / licensed by the University - Adobe Apps and Adobe Acrobat installed on your machine
### Steps to get your account:
- go to this site: sam.univie.ac.at/wm
- log in with your uaccount like this "u\myuaccountname" & password is your regular uaccount password.
- search for and order your Adobe cloud account
- wait, hope, pray for the release of the account by the IT representatives and one of your research group leaders
- wait for the release E-Mail
- go to the Adobe Austria site: Adobe.com/at
- choose: login with account
- use your uaccount E-Mail adress or your *uaccount*@univie.ac.at and your standard uaccount password
- when asked if you want to use a private or company account choose company / education
- another webpage opens up - to log in you have to use again: u\*myuaccount* & your uaccount password
- if the login was successful, you can now use Adobe cloud products installed on the university machines.
- when asked to login, use your university E-Mail address and password
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Some(-what) useful sites, mostly in German: