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Accessing Australian Standards via Techstreet

Please start by referring to the instructions on the Library page on this


topic: https://holmesglen.libguides.com/techstreet

When you register, if you do not receive a verification email, check


your junk mail.

 If you can't open Australian Standards pdfs after downloading


them, it may be because you have not installed to FileOpen App.
This app will be necessary for some (but not all) pdfs
downloaded from Techstreet.

 You will also need the latest version of Adobe Acrobat.

 If you are unable to open some Australian Standards, reinstall


FileOpen and try again.

Note: Any standard you download can only be opened on the


computer you used to download it.
 You cannot open a standard a classmate sent to you.
 If you put it on a USB drive and try it on another computer, it will
not open. You will need to install FileOpen and download the file
again on the computer you are using at the moment.

If you still are having problems, please contact Bridget Were in the
Library here or phone (03) 9564 1621

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Standards via Techstreet.docx
If Bridget is not available, please
contact [email protected] or Tirzah.Tengoo@holmesglen
.edu.au from LSC.

Setting up Chrome to automatically download pdfs

Some browsers automatically try to open pdfs, rather than download


them. The browser will be able to open some standards, but will not be
able to read an encoded pdf.
1. Click the three vertical dots on the top right of Chrome
2. Click settings

3. Type "Site settings in the search box and press enter


4. Click "Site Settings" The screen will expand.

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Australian Standards via Techstreet.docx
5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Additional content
settings"

6. Click the arrow to the right of "PDF Documents

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Australian Standards via Techstreet.docx
7. Click the button to the right of "Download PDF files instead of
automatically opening them in Chrome". The button should turn blue
(as in image below).
PDFs will now download by default and you will be able to open them
with a double click.

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