Wherever possible, we provide brochures and/or booking forms which you can download and print. If a booking form is provided, you can post this back to us at: Events Bradford, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP (fax: +44 (0) 1274 233218).
Below is a brief explanation of the formats used, with suggestions for viewing the files on different computing platforms. Note: the University cannot accept responsibility for software provided by other sites.
- HTML
- HTML documents are normal Web pages, viewable in any browser. The HTML versions of course brochures do not normally include booking forms, nor, unlike the other formats, do they retain the layout and appearance of the original leaflet. However, they are usually much smaller and faster to download.
- Adobe's Portable Document Format. These documents may be viewed in Adobe's Acrobat Reader® (often installed as a browser plug-in) or in GNU's GhostView. If you see only a blank page when viewing a PDF file in your Web browser, try going back to the previous document, right-clicking the link to the PDF and saving the file locally. You can then use Acrobat to view the file without using a Web browser; usually, the PDF file will now be displayed correctly. You can download Acrobat Reader from Adobe. GhostScript, GhostView and GSView (for Windows) are available from the GhostScript home page.
- PostScript®
- PostScript documents may be printed directly on a PostScript printer. They can also be viewed on-screen with GhostScript
- RTF
- Microsoft's Rich Text Format. Files in this format may be loaded into Microsoft® Word and other modern word-processing packages. We use RTF in preference to the .doc format for greater portability between Word versions and greater resistance to viruses. Viewers are available for for Microsoft platforms and for various systems including Macintosh. Unix users can use the "TED" editor, Abiword, or a Unix-based office suite such as OpenOffice.
- DOC
- DOC is Microsoft Word's native format, and can be viewed using the same software as for RTF (above). We use DOC format while file size or other considerations make the use of RTF inadvisable.
Compressed files
Very large files may be provided in compressed form. You will need the corresponding decompression utility in order to read these files.
- Zip archives
- The Zip format combines compression with archiving, so a single zip file may contain more than one file. Many utilities are available to unzip these archives, including ZipCentral and Freezip.
- Gzip
- Gzip is The GNU project's file compression utility. See this GNU documentation for help on uncompressing gzippped files on various systems
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