Documents filed with FiDO are in PDF format. To view them, you must install a PDF viewer, available from Adobe without charge; a viewer can be incorporated into your Web browsers as a helper application. Consult your browser's help for instructions on installing a helper application.

Here's how it's done for Firefox 3.0:

  1. To be able to download, add Adobe's site to the list of "allowed sites" in Firefox:
  2. On the Tools menu, select Add-ons; click the "Get Extensions" link in the lower right corner of the popup window.
  3. On the Add-ons page, select Plugins from the menu on the left.
  4. Click the green Install Now button that appears under the Acrobat Reader header.
  5. Adobe's Reader page is displayed. Follow the instructions for downloading the correct version.
  6. A "Software Installation" box is displayed; click Install Now.