The CD-ROM's main document, FS_2002.PDF, is an Adobe AcrobatTM document. You need to have the Acrobat ReaderTM installed on your computer in order to read the document. The reader software is free and available at www.adobe.com. We also included the latest version (as of December 2002) for Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000 on the CD-ROM.

Answer: The postcard form was originally designed in 1976 and has since had several changes in format. The one change that has not been made is the postcard mailer design. Secretary of State staff is currently looking into new and innovative ideas for the voter registration affidavit, including the postcard mailer format. Our goal is to make it as user friendly as possible.

I (and I suspect most other readers) DO actually appreciate you taking the time to discuss these formats online. Still, I can understand (and agree with) the reasons which are driving people to be somewhat abrasive in some of the posts. Microsoft has definitively proven that it will do whatever it can to lock its customers in and avoid competing on technical (and now price) merits.

If you have a hard copy of a document, it is best to scan that document. This can be done if you have a scanner. Also, most copy centers like Kinko's have scanners available with helpful staff. Scan your file into the computer then save the file in a PDF format.

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Registering officer may permit withdrawal of the document before completion of registration on written request by the party who presented the document. Fifty percent of the registration fee is refundable. Likewise Stamp duty is also refundable subject to deductions. (Please see question No.19 on stamp duty F.A.Q.)

We are unable to purchase any car without the original V5 document (log book) as this allows us to check all is in order with your car. If you do not have one you can obtain a new document by filling in form V62 which you can download from the DVLA or pick up from any Post Office. The completed form and appropriate fee should be sent to DVLA, Swansea, SA99 1AR. It normally takes 3 - 4 weeks to obtain a new V5.

PDF stands for portable document format. It is commonly used for web-publishing. To read pdf documents, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed in your computer. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free and can be downloaded at this site.

You can fax or mail your document to us for a quote. Our contact information can be found on the "Contact Us" page of our website.

In your word processing program, when you go to "Save As" (not just SAVE), you will see a window pop up, and look for the window that says "save as type". Click on the arrow, and you will see a list of formats. Select rich text format (rtf), and you will know your document was saved correctly if the name ends in .rtf. That is pretty much a universal format that all computers can read. I will return it in the same format so you can read my comments.

Extractor currently handles plain text, HTML, and email. The HTML filter handles HTML escape sequences for accents and ISO Latin-1 HTML character entities. The email filter handles MIME quoted-printable accents. If you are developing software which must handle other formats, there are several companies that offer conversion modules that can be embedded in your software.

The Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) allows us to offer an easy to read format with an excellent resolution for images with a very small file size for faster downloading. The PDF format offers you many options such as zoom in/out, copy/paste of text or images, and lots more. It also lets us provide forms that you can print out and that look exactly like the original, because Acrobat supplies the fonts that your PC may not have.

Some translated materials may not retain formatting in some kinds of software. We recommend using standard software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Adobe FrameMaker, PageMaker, Illustrator, Acrobat (PDF), Quark Xpress, Corel WordPerfect and CorelDraw.

PDF labels may be obtained from the department that prints your product labels. In addition, some Microsoft Word Documents may be printed to the Adobe Acrobat PDF writer on your own system. As a last option you may choose to scan your documents and create a PDF.