 Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is the open de facto standard for electronic document distribution worldwide. Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all the fonts, formatting, graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. Adobe PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as intended by anyone with free Adobe Acrobat Reader® software.
This page includes instructions regarding:
- How to download the Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Downloading the Reader
- Printing an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) document
- Saving an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) document
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How to download the Adobe Acrobat Reader
The Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read documents
in .pdf format. The Reader is available free of charge from the
Adobe WWW site.
Downloading the Reader
On your computer, make a directory into which the software will be saved (e.g. c:\download).
Connect to the Adobe WWW site.
- Choose the language version and platform version (Windows95, Windows NT, Mac, Linux, etc.) you need from the drop-down lists.
- Type your name and e-mail address in the text boxes provided.
- Click the "Download" button to download the reader to your computer.
- Install the reader on your computer (Double-click on the downloaded .exe file and following the installation prompts).
- Open a .pdf document using the installed reader.
Printing an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) document
- Open a required document in the Reader by clicking on the link.
- Select File-Print from the menu bar in the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Low-end printers cannot handle large Adobe Acrobat documents. Send the document to the printer in sections to avoid printer memory overload.
Saving an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) document
- On your computer, make a directory into which the document will be saved (e.g. c:\download).
- Locate a document you wish to download.
- Right click on the link to the required document and select Save Target As (Internet Explorer) / Save Link As (Netscape) from the drop-down menu.
- When prompted, specify a drive and directory into which the document should be saved (e.g. c:\download).
- Click on Save / OK to save the document.
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