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EFS-Web System Requirements

OPERATING SYSTEMHARDWARESOFTWAREBROWSERJAVA VIRTUAL MACHINESCOMMENTS
XP Pro SP2

XP Home

Win2000Pro SP4
266-MHz or higher Intel Pentium processor (or similar AMD Processor)

256 MB of RAM

20 GB hard drive with 90 MB of free disk space

1024 X 768 Resolution, 800 X 600 minimum

56 Kbps or faster
Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8 IE 6.0 SP1/SP2,

Netscape Navigator 8.1
MS JVM 5.0, Sun Java Plugin 1.5.0 and above Sun JRE version 1.5.0_06 is strongly recommended for TLS configuration.
Mac OS Tiger10.4 PowerPC

256 MB of RAM

20 GB HFS formatted hard drive with 125 MB of free disk space

1024 X 768 Resolution, 800 X 600 minimum

56 Kbps or faster
Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8 MAC Mac Safari 2.0.3 Apple JRE 1.5 and above Apple JRE version 1.5 Release 3 is strongly recommended for TLS configuration
RedHat 9.0 266-MHz or higher Intel Pentium processor (or similar AMD Processor)

256 MB of RAM

20 GB hard drive with 90 MB of free disk space

1024 X 768 Resolution, 800 X 600 minimum

56 Kbps or faster
Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8 Mozilla 5.0 version 1.7.13
(Mozilla 1.7.2 has a security flaw)
Sun Java Plugin 1.5.0 and above Sun JRE version 1.5.0_06 is strongly recommended for TLS configuration.

Browser and Adobe Acrobat Reader Compatibility
The following browser and Adobe Acrobat Reader version combinations for opening PDFs in a browser window are supported (marked by an 'x').

  Adobe 5.0.5 Adobe 5.1 Adobe 6.0.1 Adobe 7.0.8*
Internet Explorer 5.01 or higherxxxx
Netscape 8.1 xxx
Mozilla 1.73x
Safari 2.0.3 x

* Adobe 7.0.8 Reader is only required to use Fillable PDF forms designed specifically for EFS.

PDF Instructions

EFS Web requires that the PDF documents conform to any one of versions 1.1 through 1.6 of the Adobe PDF specification.

About Adobe Acrobat Reader

EFS Web does not require the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free software application. The recommended version of Adobe Acrobat for EFS Web is version 7.0.8. To upgrade to version 7.0.8, choose the appropriate operating system and language for download of Acrobat Reader 7.0.8. Click here for more help viewing PDF files in browser.


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